Wild Dogs Are Hard to Tame: Dr. Shen Is Too Good at Flirting

Complete ◎ [Cool, teasing doctor × green-tea, street-dog champion + younger man + both leads are virgins + happy ending + intense romantic tension + competitive sports]

On a stormy night, orthopedic surgeon Shen Qingzhou brings home a drenched “stray dog”: Duan Xingye, a swimming prodigy abandoned by his team. The young man’s shoulder is badly injured, but his eyes shine with startling brightness.

Shen Qingzhou’s life is orderly and composed, but Duan Xingye’s intrusion is fierce yet tender. Using his injury as an excuse, he slyly pries open Shen Qingzhou’s tightly shut heart with a bowl of hot congee and a plaintive “Big Brother, it hurts.” What Shen Qingzhou doesn’t know is that this reunion is something the young man has carefully planned for six years.

Duan Xingye’s intrusion is gentle yet forceful.

Shen Qingzhou’s life is orderly and composed, but Duan Xingye’s intrusion is fierce yet tender. Using his injury as an excuse, he slyly pries open Shen Qingzhou’s tightly shut heart with a bowl of hot congee and a plaintive “Big Brother, it hurts.”

Just as their relationship begins to heat up, one obstacle after another emerges: the brutality of competitive sports, opposition from a wealthy family, and rumors from the outside world. Shen Qingzhou pushes the young man away in the cruelest way: “Don’t let me ruin your shot at becoming a champion.”

During their two years apart, the swimming world’s “tyrant,” Duan Xingye, sweeps the field, cold and sharp.

When they meet again, Duan Xingye’s shoulder injury has left him disabled, and his father has abandoned him. Shen Qingzhou becomes his attending physician. “Xingye, I’ll get you back on top.”

“Shen Qingzhou,” Duan Xingye pins him against the wall, storms raging in his eyes. “This time, you came back on your own.”

From a rainy night at a hospital in Shanhai City to the top of the swimming world;

from tentative, careful advances to a consuming entanglement;

this is a redemption that began with a scheme, and a mutual fall into love.

“I healed your body, and you healed my heart.”