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奔波於教室與實驗室之間，盼望哪天能拿到終身教職的理論物理學兼任教授、用上完美演技，可依客戶需求調整風格的百變出租女友—Elsie的兩種身分，如同她的收支，她小心翼翼地維持平衡。
非編制內的教職，薪水實在微薄，她不得不兼差扮演假女友，而說實話，她的副業經營得還算有聲有色，直到她一手建立、苦心維持的Elsie多重宇宙，突然彼此相撞。
Jack Smith，聲名狼藉，毀掉物理學家Elsie導師學術生涯的那個男人，竟偏偏是出租女友Elsie最聊得來的客人的哥哥。
這位英俊帥氣，可惜良心被狗啃光的實驗物理學家兼MIT物理系掌門人，是橫亙在Elsie與她夢想工作間的最大障礙。
她為所有一觸即發的學術戰爭(?)做足準備，不過，朝著她所有弱點而去的攻擊，卻都來自她未曾設想過的地方：Jack的溫柔眼神、他不動聲色的貼心舉止、以及那些燈火闌珊處的等候…
Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain.
The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.
Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And he’s the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job.
Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?
