[Sweet Romance] [Secret Crush Comes True] [Living Together] [Age Gap] [Both Pure]
On the day Lin Zhizhi graduated, her landlord stood her up, and she crouched by the roadside, nearly in tears.
The cool, aloof professor she'd secretly loved for four whole years happened to pass by. "I have a spare room at home. Want to stay?"
Lin Zhizhi's mind went blank. She grabbed her luggage and followed him.
After they started living together, Huo Ting laid down the rules:
"I'll make breakfast. Be home by ten. Don't bring anyone of the opposite sex home."
She obediently nodded, but late one night, she came across a popular campus post:
"A serious discussion: Is Professor Huo Ting asexual?"
With trembling fingers, she replied under an anonymous account: "His fingers are so beautiful... I want to hold his hand."
The next second, her bedroom door opened.
Huo Ting was holding the pajamas she'd left in the bathroom. His gaze swept over the words on her screen, and his eyes darkened.
"So this is what my student thinks about every day?"
Later, she accidentally discovered the secret locked in a drawer in Huo Ting's study:
Every class photo of her from the past four years, notes she'd scribbled casually, even a screenshot of a news story about her saving someone during freshman orientation.
On the back of a photo, in his sharp handwriting, were the words:
"My beloved, like reeds by the river, will cross the water to reach me."
Late that night, he pressed her against the study bookshelves, his breath burning hot.
"I've played the gentleman for four years. I've had enough."
"Lin Zhizhi, this time, you walked in here of your own accord."
"Don't even think about running away again."
