A resilient, hardworking doctor vs. a sharp-tongued, devoted genius scientist
Jiang Nian used to think the hardest thing in the world was getting Gu Ci, the perennial first-ranked student, to look her way.
Later, she discovered something even harder: after working an all-night shift, she still had to face Gu Ci's icy expression and hear him say, “Doctor Jiang, your dark circles are more erratic than the heart rate of the patient you just saved.”
In high school, Jiang Nian was the “slow starter” in her teachers' eyes. Determined to catch up with that dazzling figure, she pushed herself to take off early even if she was a slow starter, working through mountains of exam questions until her fingers were raw, all so she could get into the same medical school.
Eight years of combined undergraduate and doctoral studies, countless breakdowns and tears in the dissection room, sleepless nights before the medical licensing exam, and more disputes and grievances in the emergency department than she could count... She had faced setbacks and thought about giving up, but she never stopped moving forward.
Because no matter how late it got, the light at the hospital entrance and the man who seemed never to need sleep were always waiting for her.
Everyone knew that Gu Ci, the medical world's youngest neurosurgery genius, was aloof, ascetic, and best left alone.
Only Jiang Nian knew that when she studied for her graduate entrance exams until her nose bled, he would wipe her face with red-rimmed eyes. When she failed her first surgery as lead surgeon and hid in the locker room to cry, he sat outside the door with her all night.
This is a long, unrequited love story about healing and growing up.
She wants to cure the world's illnesses, while he only wants to cure her insecurity and fear of loss.
(Feel free to enjoy this one without overthinking it!)
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