Dual timelines + dark redemption + medical mystery
“Wei Qingyue, is my name carved into your ribs?”
In the hospital bed, Jiang Du traced the wisteria tattoo on his chest. Beneath it lay the necrotic rib removed from her body.
On a stormy night when she was seventeen, she caught his father beating him until he coughed up blood. But when her asthma flared up, he carried her to the infirmary instead.
Ten years later, as he signed her critical condition notice, his hand trembled. “Your parents’ deaths weren’t a medical accident. They found my medical records.”
