On the day Chen Xu, director of the oncology department, was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, he calmly formulated a treatment plan for himself. After practicing medicine for ten years, he has saved countless lives, and now it is his turn to face this losing battle. He chose to continue working and spend his last days as a doctor rather than a patient under the familiar shadowless light.
Lin Chi, a hospital nurse who is taciturn and with old scars on the back of her hands, always stays with patients who die alone late at night. The shadow of his mother's lonely death from lung cancer made him choose this job - providing warmth within clear boundaries, but never letting himself get really close to anyone.
Two people who are used to being alone meet in the cold winter of life. Chen Xu went from being professional and calm to gradually collapsing, and Lin Chi went from closing himself off to learning to be close again. There is no grand confession, only silent companionship in pain, silent guarding in the middle of the night, and two incomplete souls illuminating each other in desperate situations.
When death comes as promised, they discover that some love does not need to be proven throughout a lifetime. In a limited time, two lonely people gave each other the most complete companionship - this is not the end of tragedy, but the short-lived but eternal light ignited by two souls for each other on the edge of the abyss. A story about death, loneliness, redemption, and learning to love at the end of life.
Beautiful, redemptive literature