Overdue Twelve Years

#Wonder if the prey I tasted eight years ago is still to my taste?#

#Capturing a “menopausal” little white rabbit#

26-year-old laid-back hunter art teacher x 38-year-old welcoming-yet-refusing math teacher

Blame me for being late—overdue by twelve years, and then another eight.

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Tianmu Middle School established its first art experimental class, and grade director Lin Huayan was entrusted with the heavy responsibility of serving as both homeroom teacher and math instructor.

Rumors swirled that this Teacher Lin had lived alone for many years. She was beautiful, yes, but stern and unyielding, devoid of emotion or desire. In her teaching, she was ruthless even to the flowers—every student she’d taught revered and feared her in equal measure, earning her the nickname **Lin Menopause**.

At the opening class meeting, the bespectacled culture-class homeroom teacher exuded an aura of unspoken authority through her gold-rimmed glasses. In the pin-drop silence, another professional teacher arrived fashionably late.

Youthful and radiant, with long wavy hair, a little white dress, and dimples to die for. Her gentle smile and soft words—”Let me see whose little darlings are sitting so perfectly straight”—instantly won her a horde of adoring fans, boys and girls alike.

Only Lin Huayan’s heart pounded wildly, her body rigid, nails digging into the edge of the podium.

This woman hadn’t been seen in eight years, yet not a single day had passed without her occupying Lin Huayan’s heart.

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In her youth, Lou Yixuan had loved a woman with all her might in secret. That woman had been the homeroom teacher of the class next door, her next-door neighbor, and once the love she’d driven to the brink of despair.

She had seen the woman radiant and commanding in the classroom, tender and homemaking at home, desperate and disheveled when harassed by a lecherous creep, and… every inch of her as innocent and newborn as a babe.

But alas, the spring night was too short. The woman left with a curt “I can’t accept this” and fled.

[Side Scene]

After starting to work together, Lin Huayan and Lou Yixuan never breathed a word of the past. No one knew they’d once been teacher and student, let alone that they’d kissed and held each other close.

At a good friend’s second wedding banquet, Lin Huayan drowned her sorrows and got blackout drunk.

Her friend called over the blind date she’d lined up to take her home. Lin Huayan vomited all over him, mumbling apologies while whipping out her phone and thrusting the screen at her friend. “Call her. I want her to come get me.”

Lou Yixuan drove over, politely bundled the man into the back seat—only to be yanked down unceremoniously by the neck.

The drunk whimpered, “Lou Yixuan, you bastard! Why do you keep tempting me? Why… why did it take you so long to come find me…?”

Lou Yixuan held her close, soothing patiently. “Alright, alright, baby, I’m sorry. I should’ve come for you sooner.”

The baby sniffled pitifully, all teary-eyed. “Who’s your baby…? You’ve got so many babies—go call them… mmph.”

[Key Points]

Lou-Lin pure body and soul 1v1 HE. Reunion at the start; same-sex marriage is legal.

Not a full-female world, but all major main and side characters are women.

**Content Warnings!** Both pairs of side CP older partners are divorced women.

In the main story, main and side CP emotional developments involve no men (details in text).