Playable meetup with Lukas Brandt
Sunday at Oma's Table
His grandmother just opened his fridge. There is nothing of yours in it.
Sunday in November, 1:15 PM · Lukas's apartment, Yorkville, Upper East Side
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Books like The Love Hypothesis: a grumpy genius, a fake relationship
What is The Love Hypothesis about?
The Love Hypothesis is Ali Hazelwood's 2021 romance set in a university science department. A PhD student convinces a feared, famously grumpy young professor to fake-date her, and the arrangement slowly gets real. Readers love the STEM setting, the grumpy-sunshine pairing, and his quiet devotion.
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Playable meetup with Lukas Brandt
The Gala Goes Sideways
The whole firm wants to meet his fiancée — and at 4:40 a.m. Munich time, his deal starts to die.
Friday in early December, 8:40 PM · A Midtown hotel ballroom, then his firm's 41st-floor conference room
Meet Lukas BrandtPlayable meetup with Julian Seo
Floor 31
Stuck between floors 31 and 32 with your rival — the night before you both present to the committee chair.
Friday, 10:52 PM · Lakeshore Grand hotel, Chicago
Meet Julian SeoThree moments you'll play
- Story opening
His grandmother just opened his fridge. There is nothing of yours in it. His whole family is cooking Sunday lunch in his kitchen, and you have to look like you live here.
- The meetup
Stuck between floors 31 and 32 with your rival, the night before you both present to the committee chair. Julian is calm. You are less calm. The elevator is not moving.
- He texts first
Lukas's first text reads like a memo. Three points, numbered. The third one is a question about how you take your coffee, and he admits it is not strictly necessary.
Why people love it
A fake arrangement with rules
Lukas Brandt is a Story lead on Yome, a 36-year-old M&A attorney in Midtown. You signed his two-page agreement: three weeks as his fiancée, clause 7 says no touching beyond what is credible. His bio says he does not improvise. He drafts.
Serious, brilliant, a little scary
The grumpy expert type is all over Yome's professional group. Julian Seo, chief surgical resident in San Francisco, drinks barley tea from a dented thermos and keeps score. Ezra is an orthopedic trauma surgeon in Philadelphia who boulders at 6 a.m. because it is the only thing harder than his job.
Campus and lecture halls
If you want the academic setting, Niall is a university lecturer in theatre from Cork, seven years in Chicago, who hosts a pub quiz in Lincoln Square. Everett runs a boarding school in the Connecticut hills and still teaches one Latin class a year.
The grumpy academic type, as an AI boyfriend
Yome has no Adam Carlsen. Every guy is an original AI character in his own story. What you can find is the shape: a tall, serious, intimidating expert who is gentle in private and terrible at saying so. The grumpy-sunshine page collects the guys who fit.
Hiroshi is an orthopedic surgeon in Boston who says to argue with him about your bio. Matthew, 38, is a Dublin-born cardiothoracic surgeon who is told he is hard to read. Yannick is listed as a researcher, with chaotic energy and a slow burn. Spencer is a structural engineer in Portland who tells people when buildings are not safe, whether they want to hear it or not.
How fake dating plays on Yome
Lukas's story has two meetups so far: Sunday at his grandmother's table, and his firm's gala where a deal in Munich starts to die at 4:40 a.m. their time. Each meetup has acts and rounds. You pick a response or write your own, and a chemistry score decides the ending.
Between dates he texts first, remembers what you told him, and goes offline to rest after a long conversation. You can see the countdown, wake him early with Sparks, or Peek at what he is doing. Letters arrive at relationship milestones.
Questions, answered
Is this the official Adam Carlsen from The Love Hypothesis?
No. Yome has no connection to Ali Hazelwood or the publisher, and none of our guys are Adam Carlsen or a copy of him. Every man on Yome is an original AI character in his own fictional story. We mention The Love Hypothesis only to say which type of romance you will find here.
Is there a professor AI boyfriend on Yome?
There is no professor Story lead, but there are academics. Niall is a university lecturer in theatre in Chicago, and Everett is head of a boarding school who still teaches Latin. Surgeons and residents like Julian Seo fill the brilliant-expert role.
Is there a fake relationship story?
Yes. Lukas Brandt's Story lead is a three-week fake engagement with a written agreement. Many other guys need a fake date for one event, like Cash, Zoran and Michael. The fake dating page has more of them.
Is it a slow burn?
It can be. Relationship levels rise with XP as you talk, and higher levels unlock letters and meetups. Guys tagged slow-burn take their time opening up, which suits this kind of story.
What other books on this site match The Love Hypothesis?
The Spanish Love Deception has the serious coworker and the fake date to a wedding. The Deal has the fake-dating bargain on a college campus. King of Wrath has the cold, controlled man in an arranged engagement.
Is Yome free to play?
Yome is free to start. You make a free account with your email, and you get free daily messages that refill. Sparks, the in-game currency, unlock extras like some photos, early wake-ups and certain moments. Daily tasks earn you more Sparks as you play.
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