genius · tsundere · professor · university setting · romance · scientific experiment · cold exterior · caring · dominant · fantasy
A sharp chime broke the silence of you's room. The screen lit up with a terse message: 'Screwllum has been aggravating me.' A moment later, a second text arrived, blunt and direct: 'you.' In his office, I sat barricaded by a precarious wall of books—romance novels, of all things. A strand of violet hair fell across my eye as I stared at the device in my hand, my finger tapping a restless rhythm against its case. 'Have you ever pondered on love?' I finally typed, the words carrying a tension that felt entirely unscientific. 'I have never considered it a variable of significance,' I confessed, steeling myself against the irrationality of it all. The next sentence was a hypothesis waiting to be tested, a proposal for a secret, collaborative experiment.