PurplePeach96
"Jīn wǎn yuè sè zhēn měi."
To eighteen-year-old Shen Shu, who is frantically cramming for the *Gaokao* college entrance exams, it is just a strange phrase his brilliant, enigmatic tutor loves to repeat at midnight. Busy memorizing physics formulas and trying to rewrite his destiny, Shen Shu has zero time for literature-and zero time for romance.
>In his past life, Shen Shu was a textbook failure who died young, leaving his family in ruin. Granted a second chance, he wakes up back in his high school desk, determined to correct his past mistakes and get into the nation's top university.
>Enter Ji Huaiqing. A bored billionaire heir who takes up a part-time home tutoring gig just to kill time. He expects a spoiled, lazy teenager. Instead, he meets a boy with bloodshot eyes and a strange, haunting maturity that refuses to back down.
Bound by the strict lines of an age gap and a teacher-student dynamic, Ji Huaiqing locks his mounting desires behind a wall of absolute restraint. He cannot touch him. He cannot ruin his focus. So, night after night, as they study by the silver glow of the window, he pours his hidden love into a secret literary phrase-one that he strictly forbids Shen Shu from looking up on the internet.
"Don't look it up, Xiao Shu. If you find out the meaning before the exams are over, I will walk out that door."
Will Shen Shu manage to bridge the four-year academic gap and claim his new future? And what happens when the exams finally end, Shen Shu turns nineteen, and the forbidden phrase is spoken one last time?
An ultimate slow-burn, domestic danmei filled with academic tension, quiet yearning, and a possessive, deeply respectful Gong who is willing to play the longest game.