"To be honest, when I found out you were the person I was dating online, and when I saw you wearing that ring from my seat in the lecture hall, do you know what was going through my mind?" Chen Yuan recalled how he felt at that moment.
"What were you thinking?"
"I thought it was completely absurd. It felt so dissonant. No matter how many times I tried, I couldn't reconcile the two of you—the lecturer and my online girlfriend," Chen Yuan said, his eyes full of the same bewilderment he'd felt back then. "You give your students the impression that you're way up on a pedestal, completely untouchable. But then I learned that in private, you're all cutesy and high-pitched... It's such a huge contrast."
"The contrast... It's really just how my personality was formed growing up. There's always this standard for what a gentle and graceful woman should be. She can act that way, but it doesn't mean that's her true personality on the inside," Jiangg Ning replied after a moment of thought.
