After-School Tutoring, The Professor’s Dangerous …

Gu Yanshu, of the mathematics department, was the kind of student professors loved and loathed in equal measure. He was brilliant, fiercely ambitious, his gaze always sharp with the unwillingness to be second. His advisor, Shen Yuwei, happened to be exactly the kind of woman whose mere presence at the lectern could hush an entire lecture hall. Her authority—and a certain magnetism that spoke for itself—was like a meticulously constructed mathematical puzzle, and Gu Yanshu found himself captivated. What he didn’t foresee was that his own insatiable thirst for knowledge would draw him into a game that went far beyond any textbook, a game too fraught to be named. That private office, still illuminated at a late hour, was where it all began.