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    Xiao Zhan, a senior at Qing University, spends much of his free time (badly) playing World of Cultivation. As his online marriage with lanwangji devolves into an internet dumpster fire, his irl love life blossoms into a romcom featuring the school's awkward ice prince Wang Yibo.

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    Dr. Wang Yibo, freshly minted Math PhD with an IQ just shy of “insufferable genius” status, returns to his alma mater as a visiting lecturer for the semester. When he isn't teaching, Yibo works on developing drone flight optimization algorithms.

    His agenda for the fresh start reads:
    📝Define the term “errand boy”
    📝Avoid small talk & academia politics
    📝Nurture young minds
    📝Chug coffee & stay focused on goal(s)

    Professor Xiao Zhan is an excellent orator, dispenses knowledge dressed in impeccably tailored suits, the youngest to earn tenure, & has a literary award nomination to boast. It’s safe to claim Xiao laoshi is worshipped by his fan club. Can anyone blame them?

    In Yibo’s words, his former teacher is still brilliant, still maddening, still the only one capable of inspiring Yibo to author a six-thousand-word peer-reviewed paper on the symptomatic divergence of carefully constructed emotional equilibrium.

    Once upon a time, meteor showers burst every time they argued. Now, as colleagues, they are still at loggerheads, & the entire campus is watching, whispering, waiting for the inevitable.

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    Weeks have turned into months after he’d kissed Yibo, and while Xiao Zhan is trying to take things slow he’s pretty sure that Yibo is running some kind of coordinated campaign to seduce him. The invitations are becoming increasingly unsubtle, at any rate.

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    “And here you are,” Yibo agrees. “What’s next?”

    Xiao Zhan shrugs. “Another flight, further out. A ship if I can sign on to one.” He grins at the thought, then peeks at Yibo. “I don’t suppose you know a crew who’s looking for a mechanic? I’m good with my hands,” he says, wiggling his fingers.

    Yibo raises his eyebrows and Xiao Zhan feels his ears turn hot. “Why not a ship of your own?” Yibo asks.

    Xiao Zhan snorts. “I didn’t cash in that much.”

    “You might be surprised,” Yibo says, and Xiao Zhan deflates a little.

    “And you were doing so good at not being a salesman,” he says resignedly, and Yibo grins.


    Xiao Zhan leaves the quiet, stable life of a shipyard mechanic for adventure in the stars; adventure finds him after the third drink.

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    23 Jun 2024