Alpenliebe Original was the sweetest taste Xu Yansen had ever known, and the most bittersweet obsession lodged in his heart.
One candy marked the beginning of his first love as a boy, the opening chapter of a secret crush he kept hidden throughout his youth.
That sweetness brightened all his high school years, but left him to suffer through countless sleepless nights afterward.
At twenty-seven, an inflamed wisdom tooth brought Ye Yuyang back to the hospital in the old city.
At the far end of a corridor filled with the smell of disinfectant, she found herself caught in the gaze of Xu Yansen, dressed in a white coat.
He was a composed, sharp-minded cardiologist at the municipal hospital. She was a patient with a painful, swollen wisdom tooth, hurrying away, her eyes and brows unchanged.
The past was like an inflamed wisdom tooth: a dense, enduring ache that could neither be pulled out nor forgotten.
When they were young, he was the one who pushed her away.
Years later, reunited, he crossed the crowds and walked toward her without hesitation.
Some reunions, it turned out, were never about saying goodbye. They were about making up for past regrets and finally loving each other as they should.
