The Language of Love

Bai Du Ning is a third-year student at Beijing Foreign Studies University, a woman who holds herself together through a perfect transcript, three jobs, and a wall of principles no one can cross. When she agrees to tutor Lu Sheng, the basketball team captain suspended for failing his foreign-language requirement, she sees it as just another contract to fund her living expenses. But beneath his careless exterior lies a discipline of steel and an unhealed injury, and beneath her own cold shell is a person far too sensitive about what she is hiding. What neither of them expects are the things that fall outside every clause: studying together until midnight in a quiet library, a coat still carrying his warmth laid over her shoulders during a Beijing winter. Every contract ends. When this one does, neither of them wants it to.