Title: Starlight in My Arms
Lead 1: Su Xing, a surgeon who is resilient and independent, a clear-eyed realist hiding painful memories of the past
Lead 2: Gu Yanchen, a technology conglomerate CEO who is cold on the outside and warm on the inside. He protects her in silence, but always seems to get the timing wrong, a clumsy pursuer chasing the light
Synopsis:
At three in the morning, the smell of disinfectant mingled with the steam rising from lotus root soup with pork ribs in the hospital corridor, an unexpected footnote to Su Xing's most wretched moment.
As the youngest attending surgeon at a top-tier hospital, Su Xing is used to cutting into diseased tissue with a scalpel, but she has never had the courage to dissect the relationship that ended without resolution three years ago. Then Gu Yanchen, the man she once pushed away herself, appears at her grandmother's hospital room with an insulated food container. Only then does she realize that some starlight, no matter how deliberately you avoid it, will always find its way into your eyes.
Gu Yanchen is known in business circles for his cold demeanor, but he makes an exception only for Su Xing. When she works the night shift, his car is always parked downstairs at the hospital. When she keeps him at arm's length, he uses business projects to “trap” them into spending time together. When she dredges up the past and calls him “selfish,” he says, eyes red, “I never explained what happened back then, but I never lied to you.”
The “chasing-her-back-to-the-crematorium” drama readers keep calling for never comes. Instead, through one emergency surgery and late night at work after another, Su Xing glimpses the tenderness he hides beneath his suit. He remembers that she doesn't eat scallions or ginger. When she is harassed by a patient's family, he quietly hands her the evidence she needs. On a stormy night, he waits outside the hospital just to say, “I'll wait for you to finish work.”
This is a story about rekindling a love that once broke, and a mutual devotion summed up by: “You save lives, and I'll keep you safe.”
