The Oral Lesson

Chapter 1冷脸与一句破功

Wayfarer · 1328 words · English

【Yun · Female Lead (Busty Teacher)】

The first word people reach for to describe me is always "cold." One hundred and sixty-eight centimeters, straight black hair down to my waist; people passing me in the hallway instinctively lower their voices. I know exactly what that face does — the brows set low, the mouth level, and no one dares be the first to speak to me. But the shell only holds until the second I open my mouth. The moment I speak, my voice goes soft as sugar just melted, the ends of my words tilting up on their own, and my cold trademark shatters right in front of you. The students privately call it "broken the instant she talks." I do not bother arguing, because they are right.

【Yun · Female Lead (Busty Teacher)】

I used to be a livestreamer. Not the borderline kind — the kind who held up the viewer count on a face and a figure alone. The lens is a strange thing; it peels you open without touching you, tens of thousands of eyes pressed to the far side of a screen while I sat inside the ring light, the dangerously low neckline over my chest magnified with every breath — and I was not afraid, I was addicted. When that many gazes pinned me at once, my back went hot, my fingertips tingled; it was the thrill of being enshrined. Until someone traced the threads all the way to my building and stood at the entrance the whole night through. I shut the channel, cut my hair short and grew it long again, changed cities, and stepped up onto a lecture platform.

【Yun · Female Lead (Busty Teacher)】

But the body has a memory. A lecture platform is not so different from a stream desk — a crowd looking up at you, everything you wear, how you sit, which line your pen rests on, all quietly gathered into their eyes. I never hook that gaze to the people down below; that is my line, the boundary I drew for myself. What I crave is the little current of being watched itself, unrelated to whom. This small secret only one person knows in full.

【Master · Boyfriend】

Everyone who knows her assumes she is difficult. Only I know this woman wants, at her very core, to kneel. Cold is her armor; the crack is her true self — she needs someone to make her decisions for her, to drag her out of all that ice and press her down into the place where she belongs. The rule between us is simple: out there she is Teacher Yun, whom no one dares touch, and back here with me, she is mine. This relationship she begged for herself, and she takes it more seriously than anyone.

【Master · Boyfriend】

Tonight I gave her an assignment. I have a distant cousin named A, a sophomore, of age, not short but walking with his shoulders hunched, his ears flushing crimson at a single word to a girl. The family frets that he is dull, afraid he will finish this whole life never even tasting what love is. I watched the line of Yun’s cheek and finished my sentence, unhurried: "There is a kid, wound far too tight, who needs someone to loosen him up. Go."

【Yun · Female Lead (Busty Teacher)】

"Help him?" I lifted my eyes, the cold face still in place, but the voice softened first by half a degree. Of course I understood what he meant. That familiar heat rose again in my chest, shooting from the breastbone all the way up behind my ears. Shame and excitement wound together like two currents of water, and I could not tell which ran hotter. I dropped my gaze, lashes pressing down on that flutter of panic — putting on a brave front before him is useless; he sees through it in a single glance.

【Master · Boyfriend】

I reached out and tucked the strand hanging by her cheek behind her ear, the pad of my finger brushing the burning curve of it. I watched her pupils contract. "What, is Teacher Yun unwilling?" I bit down on the word "Teacher" deliberately light, watching that cold face lose its hold bit by bit. That is the one thing she cannot stand — being teased with the very identity she takes such pride in.

【Yun · Female Lead (Busty Teacher)】

"…I never said I was unwilling." I heard my own voice, lower than usual, carrying that trace of clinginess I hate most. I hate it because it is too honest, shaking loose every scrap of anticipation I had tucked away in my pocket. I did want it. At the mere thought of serving another man under his gaze — a stranger, an untested one — of driving that hunch-shouldered boy past all control, the place high on the inside of my thigh had already begun quietly to heat, like a fuse just lit.

【Master · Boyfriend】

"Good girl." I let the words out and watched the light in her eyes flare on the spot. It is that simple: one phrase, and all that ice of hers begins to thaw. I told her the time and place — Thursday evening, the small group discussion room on the third floor of the campus library. A would think he was coming to work on an assignment for a general-education course. "Dress pretty," I added at the end, "so the kid cannot take a single step from the first glance. As for the rest — I will handle that once I am there."