The day I spilled hotpot on my future boyfriend
THE DAY I SPILLED HOTPOT ON MY FUTURE BOYFRIEND
Lin Xiaoxi did not plan to fall in love in university, she planned to survive it quietly, attend her Computer Science lectures, avoid unnecessary social disasters, and graduate without becoming the center of campus gossip, but fate had other ideas, and it started with a bowl of extremely spicy hotpot and a very expensive white shirt belonging to Lu Xingchen, the most untouchable architecture student on campus
What begins as a humiliating accident quickly escalates into a series of chaotic misunderstandings, including a mistaken confession involving a grocery list, forced collaboration on a cross disciplinary project, endless library battles over power outlets, and campus rumors that refuse to die quietly, all while Lin Xiaoxi tries her best to avoid the very person she keeps accidentally becoming entangled with
Lu Xingchen, however, is not as easy to avoid as she hopes, because he notices everything, remembers everything, and quietly adapts in ways that make distance increasingly difficult to maintain, and somewhere between controlled silences, subtle jealousy, late night work sessions, and moments where neither of them fully understands what they are becoming to each other, something undeniable begins to form
This is a slow burn campus romance about two people who start as a disaster and end as inevitability, where feelings are not loud or immediate but built through presence, restraint, tension, and the kind of connection that neither chaos nor logic can fully undo