Jiang Chun had never been an active learner since childhood. Jiang Hongtao, with remarkable foresight, had moved her household registration to the capital, so she barely floated over the second-tier university threshold in the college entrance exam.

Later, Jiang Hongtao wanted to send her abroad for a gilded education, but her relationship with English could be described as mortal enemies. After taking one-on-one IELTS lessons for a while, she didn’t want to continue. Jiang Hongtao was helpless and had to let her happily muddle through four years at some obscure second-tier university.

In the blink of an eye, several years had passed since graduation, and Jiang Chun felt a bit nervous entering Tang Zhizhou’s university.

It’s worth noting that C University, where Tang Zhizhou taught, was a top-tier school ranked in the national TOP 10, the kind she wouldn’t have dared to even think about during her college entrance exams.

Fortunately, last night she had sought Ji Mingshu’s advice on youthful dressing and had arranged for a stylist. Today she got up at six o’clock to work on a fluffy, strategic bun hairstyle and a clear, natural student makeup. Standing on campus compared to the plain female university students, she still had some confidence.

Fifteen minutes before the open class was to begin, Tang Zhizhou had already set up the equipment needed for the class and scanned the classroom. He suddenly remembered something and started walking out while sending Jiang Chun a message.

Tang Zhizhou: [Have you arrived?]

After sending it, he stood by the corridor railing and glanced down. By coincidence, he spotted a girl standing by the flower bed below wearing a yellow T-shirt and jeans. She had a loose bun and carried a small Louis Vuitton backpack, currently playing with her phone.

A few seconds later, his phone vibrated.

Jiang Chun: [Almost there, I just got out of the car. Might take another fifteen minutes TvT]

Tang Zhizhou looked down again, and a question mark slowly formed in his mind.

After sending the message, Jiang Chun remained oblivious, standing downstairs for a while, dawdling until only five minutes remained before starting to climb the stairs.

Recently, she had been thoroughly brainwashed by Ji Mingshu, who said that since high school, she would make boys wait at least an hour for dates. Even her husband had to wait a minimum of two hours before standing out among the arranged marriage candidates.

Although it sounded exaggerated and the truthfulness was questionable, with Ji Mingshu’s conditions, making men wait seemed justified. She didn’t have that capital, so she thought arriving just on time would be sufficient.

When Jiang Chun reached upstairs, it was exactly one and a half minutes before the preparatory bell for class. She followed other students in through the back door of the classroom.

Whether it was due to the natural love for learning among elite school students or Tang Zhizhou’s popularity, the large lecture hall was packed. Everyone was rushing to sit from the front rows to the back, completely different from the reluctant attitude of students attending open courses when she was in university.

Jiang Chun had just sat down in the second-to-last row when she heard nearby female students discussing in low voices:

“I told you to save a seat, why didn’t you come? Now only these back seats are left.”

“I went to the wrong teaching building, I’m so annoyed! I climbed to the sixth floor twice!”

“We can’t even see Professor Tang’s face from here, it’s too far.”

“Well, work hard on your graduate application, then. If you can choose him as your advisor, you can see his face every day.”

Was Tang Zhizhou really that popular?

Jiang Chun squinted and looked forward.

Today, Tang Zhizhou wore a white T-shirt casually covered with a dark shirt—a very typical engineering male outfit. But with his good looks, excellent temperament, and long legs, he stood out easily at the podium even in casual clothes.

To be fair, if there had been such a professor when she was in school, with her boy-crazy personality, she probably would have crashed the class too, just to watch.

Just as she was lost in thought, someone suddenly tapped her shoulder from behind. She turned around to see two female students.

The girl standing in front held a stack of books and said directly to her: “Student, you’re not from the Information Engineering Department, are you? The school recently issued a notice prohibiting auditing students from disturbing regular students. Haven’t you seen it?”

This girl spoke quite harshly. Jiang Chun paused for three seconds, “What? You spoke too fast, I didn’t catch that.”

The girl impatiently rolled her eyes and very rudely repeated what she had said previously.

At the same time, discussions could be heard from behind, “Probably from the Dance Department. Every time Professor Tang’s class is audited, the Dance Department students are the most eager. Do they even understand the content?”

Before Jiang Chun could respond, suddenly a hand intervened in front of her, followed by a gentle male voice, “I apologize, she’s my friend, not a student at our school. I didn’t consider thoroughly and disturbed everyone’s normal class.”

The girl immediately blushed, hurriedly waving her hand and saying shyly, “It’s okay, Professor… Professor Tang.”

Tang Zhizhou nodded slightly, then turned to Jiang Chun, reaching out his hand, “Come with me.”

Jiang Chun was slow to react, pointing at herself, “Me?”

“Yes.”

Under everyone’s gaze, she took Tang Zhizhou’s hand and slowly walked forward. Reaching the front row, Tang Zhizhou discussed with the students there, who squeezed to one side, actually making room for her to sit.

After sitting down, she belatedly released Tang Zhizhou’s hand as if dropping a hot potato.

The entire open class lasted ninety minutes. Jiang Chun didn’t understand a single word, but that didn’t stop her from staring at Tang Zhizhou for ninety minutes, completely smitten.

Wow, cultured men are so handsome! Every gesture! If it weren’t for the students being so well-behaved in the classroom, she would have wanted to take out her phone for a burst of nine consecutive photos to share in the group chat, letting Ji Mingshu and Gu Kaiyang appreciate how outstanding her blind date candidate was!

After class, Tang Zhizhou kept ten minutes for after-class discussions with students.

Once the ten minutes were up, he politely declined remaining questions, asking everyone to email him instead, promising to reply to each one.

“Sorry, I forgot to arrange a seat for you in advance today,” Tang Zhizhou apologized politely for the earlier incident during lunch.

“It’s fine. I heard someone say I was from the Dance Department, which made me quite happy,” Jiang Chun said while scooping tiramisu and eyeing the matcha mousse not far away. “You don’t know how my bestie says I’m as fat as a piglet and calls me tacky, always watching me diet and undergo major makeovers.”

Tang Zhizhou laughed and very understandingly pushed the mousse toward her, “Girls are cuter when they’re a bit chubby.”

Jiang Chun suddenly paused, looking up, “So you also think I’m fat?”

Faced with this deadly choice question, Tang Zhizhou paused for a few seconds, “That’s not what I meant.”

“That is exactly what you meant,” Jiang Chun lowered her head and continued eating tiramisu, her tone quite resigned as if seeing through worldly matters, “Professor Tang, honestly, is it because you have too many pursuers at school and find it troublesome, so you invited me to your open class today?”

Before Tang Zhizhou could speak, she continued chattering, expressing her own grand opinions, “Your family background is good, you’re handsome, and you’re so outstanding. No matter how I look at it, you don’t seem like a man who needs blind dates.”

“I don’t have any other strengths, except being very self-aware, so you don’t need to have any psychological burden. The parents just arranged this on a whim. I know we’re not at all suitable for each other…”

“I think we’re very suitable,” Tang Zhizhou suddenly interrupted.

Jiang Chun looked up, “…?”

Tang Zhizhou looked straight at her and repeated, “I think we’re very suitable. If you’re willing, we can try dating.”