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Bei Chunhua woke up feeling excited even though she had an eight AM class. Last semester, she wouldn’t be caught taking any class before noon, but First Semester Chunhua clearly had not heard about Professor Shen Wei.
Professor Shen Wei… the most beautiful, most perfect man in the world. She sighed dreamily. She would do anything for that man.
How did Bei Chunhua become like this? Blame her best friend, that’s who! During the break, Xiao Yuan was whining about this really difficult professor in his biology class, who was so lucky he was pretty or else he would hate him. Chunhua had snorted because come on, no professor could ever be called pretty. Then Xiao Yuan showed her Professor Shen’s photo.
She had choked.
Actually, she didn’t hate Xiao Yuan for accidentally spilling the beans about Professor Shen. She hated Xiao Yuan because if only he had told her sooner, she would have majored in biology!
In the present, Chunhua was happy at winning against the hundreds of students vying for the very limited slots in Professor Shen’s class. She might not be a biology major, but she was dead set on taking all of Professor Shen’s classes as her electives. Even if she could only see him through her laptop right now.
As she settled in front of her desk, laptop loading, curtains drawn, she grabbed her phone and reread the most precious email she had ever received three days ago.
From: Shen Wei ([email protected])
To: Biology 101 (Introduction to Biology) Students; DU Faculty; DU Department of Biology
Subject: Online Class Meeting Room Link
Good morning, everyone.
Welcome to Biology 101. I am Professor Shen Wei. I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy.
I am electronic mailing to you the meeting room link for our online class on Wednesday. I was told the password is naliew.
https://du-edu.zoom.us/p/12345678910
I will try my best to deliver my lectures even with the change in our setup. Please be patient with me as I am unaccustomed to using the computer.
I look forward to seeing you in class.
Sincerely,
Professor Shen Wei
Assistant Professor
When Chunhua first received the email, she couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows. If she hadn’t seen glorious pictures of Professor Shen, she would’ve thought he was some sixty-year-old with the way he wrote! Who the heck used the word “electronic mail”?
But after a quick chat with the rest of Shen Wei Angels (they had a group chat for fangirling over Professor Shen! Ahhh!), she discovered that Professor Shen wasn’t tech savvy. He didn’t even have a phone! And while that was shocking at first, Chunhua found herself charmed.
She’d love to be someone who could teach Professor Shen Wei!
When she told this to Xiao Yuan, he wanted to smack her head from across the screen. “Are you stupid? You think no one helped him already with the email and Zoom link?”
She deflated but quickly recovered. That was okay. She was content to be a model student for Professor Shen, as long as she got to see him every Wednesday.
Oh, and as long as Professor Shen was single. Hehe.
It was fast approaching eight and her classmates one by one popped into the Zoom classroom. She waved at someone from the Angels’ chat. Some people exchanged greetings. But mostly everyone was looking sleepy while nursing giant cups of coffee to sustain them for the next two hours.
Chunhua was too excited to see Professor Shen to feel sleepy.
At exactly eight, Professor Shen Wei entered the meeting room.
Oh. My. God.
Even though he was only meeting them behind his computer, Professor Shen was formally dressed in a white long-sleeved shirt and, if she understood Professor Shen’s personality from the Angels group, black pants to go with the whole professor look. Peeking from beneath the screen were his infamous sleeve garters, perfectly shaping his sculpted arms.
Chunhua almost lost her life there and then. She discreetly took some screenshots and sent them to the Angels’ chat.
Professor Shen opened his mouth and started talking, but no sound came out. One of her classmates unmuted and said, “Professor Shen, I think your audio’s muted.”
Adorably, Professor Shen’s brows furrowed and his eyes narrowed a bit behind his glasses as he tried to fix the problem.
Then his video went black. Professor Shen ended up turning off his video.
They all stared at one another at the screen and shared amused smiles. Chunhua whipped out her phone and chatted with the Angels’ chat members, filling it mostly with OMGs and heart emojis.
After two minutes, Professor Shen’s screen remained black, but his audio was suddenly switched on.
“Jeez, Shen Wei, d’you really have to wake me up at this hour?”
Everyone froze at the deep, unfamiliar voice. A man’s voice. Someone else was staying with Professor Shen? In his apartment?
They knew Professor Shen was someone who liked to keep to himself. But the upperclassmen divulged that a certain someone was an exception. Whoever it was, the Angels had no idea, and the upperclassmen remained tight-lipped.
“I’m sorry. It just won’t open.”
“Didn’t I show you how to do this last night before bed? Right before you pushed me down and—”
“Yunlan. My students are right there.”
Wait, wait, wait! Wait a damn minute! Professor Shen pushed who!?!
Who is this man and what did he do to Professor Shen!?!
“Relax! They’re not really there. Your video and audio are off. They can’t see or hear a single thing!”
Obviously not! Chunhua met the disbelieving eyes of her classmates. She’d like to say this man was as tech savvy as Professor Shen, but he did say he taught Professor Shen how to work on the controls….
Wait, the one who helped Professor Shen compose an email… was it this mysterious guy?
A sigh. “Just help me fix this.”
“Okay, okay! But I want something in return.”
“...What is it?”
“Say that you love me.”
At this point, everyone was wide awake, thinking how their morning class had turned into an audio drama. A romantic slice of life audio drama. About Professor Shen!
“Zhao Yunlan.”
“I love you. C’mon, tell me! I wanna hear it.” A whine.
Another sigh. “I love you.”
Laughter.
Then, Professor Shen’s camera suddenly turned on, and a hot guy with a beard appeared, looking ruffled but satisfied, smirking at the camera.
At first, Chunhua was angry that Professor Shen was taken, but damn. If he was taken by this gorgeous guy named Zhao Yunlan, then she understood!
Zhao Yunlan waved at them. “You hear that, kids? Your Professor Shen is taken. No more trying to send him love letters!”
Then he sauntered away, leaving a dumbstruck Professor Shen.
Meanwhile, Chunhua and the other Angel were holding in their screams, hearts busy fangirling.
Professor Shen remained standing, frozen, before he faced the camera and adjusted his glasses.
“Did you hear everything?”
Silence. The student who spoke before was the only brave soul to sheepishly say, “Yes, Professor Shen.”
Professor Shen took a deep breath and pushed up his glasses. “All right. Please read pages one to five of your required textbook while I take care of an important matter. I’ll be back,” was all he said before he vanished from the screen, the only thing Chunhua and the rest could hear was a deep, threatening Zhao Yunlan.
Chunhua sent another message to the chat. I think we should add Zhao Yunlan to Shen Wei Angels.