Aloof surgeon x insecure, sensitive voice actor (a touch of healing)
When Mu Xi is behind a microphone, she’s a voice actor who can give a character a thousand different emotions. But once she takes off her headphones, her world always feels a little stilted in ways she can’t quite explain. Her father left, her mother remarried, and she became a cautious outsider in her blended family. Even when illness struck the voice she treasured most, she was used to bearing it alone.
Until the day she walked into the consultation room clutching her test results and met Jiang Qi in his white coat. His fingertips rested on her medical record, his voice clear and cool as ice. Yet when his eyes passed over her reddened ones, his expression softened almost imperceptibly.
He was the youngest deputy director of cardiothoracic surgery at City No. 1 Hospital. Accustomed to life and death, he should have been unmoved by his patients’ emotions. But he remembered the girl’s embarrassment as she spoke in a breathy voice, and the loneliness hidden in her eyes beneath her forced composure.
“There’s something wrong with your throat. No speaking for now.” He wrote down his instructions, hesitated, then added, “If you feel any discomfort while you recover, come to me anytime.”
Only later did Mu Xi realize that Jiang Qi really meant anytime.
She thought it was simply a doctor taking special care of his patient. She never saw him replaying the dramas she had voiced late into the night, just to catch every subtle emotion in her voice.
Some encounters, it turns out, are driven by affection from the very beginning. He is the cure for her throat, and more than that, the harbor where she most longs to find refuge in her drifting life. And she doesn’t know that the joys and sorrows she hides in her voice have long since become the condition he cares about most.
