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// 蟬聯紐時暢榜的理科生愛情心機 //
// 當科學家堅信的「愛情理論」，遇到了不可抗拒的化學反應 //
身為史丹佛大學的生物學博士生，Olive不相信有浪漫愛情的存在。但她最好的朋友Anh相信，而且她愛上了Olive的前男友Jeremy。看著Anh為了姐妹情誼，憋死也不願意對Jeremy出手，也為了證明這個前男友真的已經「前」到不行，身為科學家，當然要提出有力的證據，於是Olive衝動地親吻了在走廊上遇到的第一個人——Adam Carlsen教授。
兩人的驚天一吻，馬上成了學校的熱門八卦。Adam是學院裡的惡魔教授，聽說他愛挑剔又喜怒無常，常讓學生淚灑辦公室。當Olive手足無措地解釋自己的行為，Adam卻淡定地答應假裝成Olive的男友，於是個性南轅北轍的兩人之間開始了一場「契約戀愛」。
但隨著越深入了解Adam，Olive發現他其實不如表面上看起來的那樣難相處，甚至……意想不到的有魅力！很快地，他們的這場「愛情實驗」，便開始超脫計算與理論的掌控——
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When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman’s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.
As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships–but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.
That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor–and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive’s career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding…six-pack abs.
Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.
