[Medical workplace + modern romance + love at first sight + happy ending + older man]
At eighteen, Mu Shengsheng enters medical school as the top student in the city. On her first day as a hospital intern, she falls in love at first sight with Zhou Huai, a thirty-year-old neurosurgeon who performs brain surgeries. Known in the field as “the neurosurgery ace,” this cold-faced doctor flicks the top of her head with his gloved hand during her first brain surgery observation. “You’re standing in the wrong place, intern. I might mistake you for a meningioma and cut you out.”
Amid the turmoil of hospital life, she follows him through the intensive care unit in high heels. She grows from a rookie whose hands shake as she passes him a scalpel into a surgeon who can hold her own. He calmly separates malformed blood vessels on the operating table, yet quietly leaves warm rice balls for her during her night shifts and writes love notes on CT film: “Continue observation after surgery.”
From intern to department director, she stands on an awards platform at thirty, still keeping the surgical-forceps pendant he gave her beneath the second button of her white coat. Below the stage, he raises his phone. Its screen displays the pregnancy test results he has just sent: “Congratulations, Dr. Mu. Your ‘meningioma’ has been confirmed as a twin pregnancy.”
