Jasmine Marries the Heart

(Not abandoned, but the story fell apart. Please don't read.)

[Love that grows over time | mutual devotion | bittersweet angst | both are faithful | BE]

When Shang Li met Zhou Youyan, she thought he was as gentle as jade, with a warm smile. He never raised his voice at anyone and seemed to have no temper at all.

The year she fled to the Zhou family, her heartache made her ill. He took her to see a jasmine flower bloom from a dead seed and told her that life could be astonishingly resilient.

Later, she lost her home. On the first blizzard night after they met, Zhou Youyan held her in his arms. The crowd's cries seemed to fade away as she listened to the song he had written for her about jasmine. For the first time, she felt that love truly existed in this world.

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♬♬ If I have a heart

♬♬ It must be because I found you

♬♬ Surely there are people in this world who can understand each other

♬♬ And share the consequences of their deeds

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Much later, Shang Li dragged her battered body all the way to Weihai alone.

That night, the blizzard raged, and the world vanished beneath the snow.

She coughed up blood and said that at last, she had lived for herself.

“Ah Yan, at last I've set myself free, too.”

Everyone knew him as an expert in psychological medicine, but no one expected that after she died, he would never be able to heal another heart.

[Note: This story is bittersweet and angsty. If that's not your thing, don't read it. Reposting or plagiarizing is forbidden. If anything is similar, you copied me.]

[Warning: Some plot elements are included for creative purposes and do not promote harmful ideas.]