[Both reborn + both completely devoted to each other + forced love + obsessive pursuit + mutual devotion + political intrigue] Everyone knows I’m the poison the Shen family carefully raised: selfish, hypocritical, and always scheming.
And Jiang Cheng is the medical world’s celebrated moon: pure, compassionate, and untouchable.
Even the brilliant physician Jiang Cheng has a shameful affliction: physical contact triggers an allergic reaction, and every three days he must be intimate with a particular woman, or his whole body will break out in sores. He has searched for a cure for years, but nothing works. Then, on the operating table after a car accident, he sees me, Shen Nian, unconscious.
The first thing I do when I wake is hook a bloodstained finger around his pristine collar. “Dr. Jiang, want to try a dose of my poison? I hear you’re… in pretty bad shape.”
From then on, he lets me drag him down from his pedestal. Yet on every late night when I return from taking revenge, he carefully wipes away the invisible blood with antiseptic.
The whole world curses me: “That wicked woman Shen Nian will ruin Jiang Cheng one day!”
After one particularly heated argument, I scream at him through red-rimmed eyes, “That’s right! I’m a mess. Why would you want to get mixed up with me?”
He falls silent in the dark, then wraps his arms around me from behind, holding tight to me, all bristling thorns. His lips brush my ear, and his voice is like a sigh, yet it makes my soul tremble:
“Nian Nian, you’ve got it wrong.”
“Long before I met you, my heart was already in ruins.”
He takes my hand and presses it against the old scar over his heart.
“You were the one who patiently gathered up the broken pieces of me, one by one.”
