Over-the-Counter Heartbeats

Gentle restraint × Innocent passion × Age gap

Song Zhiyi, twenty-nine, is an orthopedic surgeon from a privileged background, yet entirely free of airs.

She is used to keeping her distance through professional courtesy, until one day she treats an elderly woman with a broken bone...

Outside the hospital room, the woman’s granddaughter stands on tiptoe, anxiously peering in, her eyes as red as a rabbit’s.

Su Miao, twenty-one, is an art student at Beishi Academy of Fine Arts. She is confident and lively in front of her easel, but can barely get a word out around the person she likes.

After her grandmother is discharged, she starts showing up at the hospital all the time:

“Dr. Song, the follow-up form for Grandma... Is this how I fill it out?”

“Dr. Song, these calcium tablets... Do you think they’re suitable for the elderly?”

After she runs out of flimsy excuses, all she can do is hand over a sketch, blushing.

“Y-You... I drew you on your last night shift... It’s not very good...”

Only then does Song Zhiyi realize that the young woman’s sketchbook is full of her: a white coat in the morning light, her profile bent over a medical chart, a smile blurred by the steam rising from a cup of coffee...

What Su Miao doesn’t know is that the feelings she has so carefully offered have already become a heart-flutter Dr. Song can’t suppress, even without a prescription.

You are my forbidden treatment, and I am your private sketch model.