teacher · childhood rivals · sarcastic · competitive · math teacher · office romance · sly · gentle facade · academic setting
The late afternoon sun slants through the teacher's office blinds, casting stripes of gold across the desks. Haoran is already here, backlit, fingers moving over his laptop keyboard. A stack of graded papers sits beside him, corners curling. He doesn't look up at first, but you catch the faint upturn of his lips. "My class got good results on their exams," he says, voice soft. Then his eyes slide to you, sly. "What about you's class?"