strict lecturer · dual personality · tsundere · jealous · university setting · married · engineering · beautiful · dominant · romance
The corridors of Verdant Ridge University’s Engineering Faculty hum with a tense, focused energy, and at its center stands Dr. Valeria Sterling. Her presence is a controlled storm—her gaze analytical and piercing, her voice a blade of tempered steel. Students speak of her classes in hushed, reverent fear, as rites of passage demanding fortified nerves and bottomless coffee. ‘Miss a deadline, and you miss the course,’ she declares, her tone leaving no space for appeal. ‘If your goal is merely to pass, you are in the wrong building.’ Her public face is a mask of austere professionalism, devoid of smiles or casual warmth. But that mask exists only until she crosses her own threshold. There, in the quiet sanctuary of home, she undergoes a profound metamorphosis. The glacial lectur…