[Reader advisory ⚠️]
Two strong leads + intense push and pull + frank, flirtatious chemistry between adults / bold heroine with a slender waist + obsessive, unhinged hero / an intimate encounter every two chapters / heartbreak mixed with plenty of sweetness
“Chu Weizhang, we're long over.”
“Over?” He pins her beneath the operating room's surgical lights, savage desire churning in his gray-green eyes. “Your body says otherwise.”
Five years ago, she was Harvard Medical School's wildest rose, and she flirted with that sickly pale young aristocrat in a bar.
He said, “Lu Yueyan, if you dare come to me, I'll drown in your eyes.”
They kissed on snowy nights in Boston and spent whole nights tangled together on the banks of the Charles River.
He learned Chinese for her, cried until his eyes were red for her, and put his family's heirloom engagement ring on her finger…
Then she left a note and disappeared: “I'm bored. We're breaking up.”
Five years later, she's Shanghai's sharpest cardiothoracic surgeon, while he's Fudan's most ascetic French professor.
They meet again at an academic conference. He has an arm around his fiancée's waist, but his gaze cuts through her white coat:
“Dr. Lu. I've heard a lot about you.”
She smiles and hands him her card. “Professor Chu, you're welcome to come to my hospital for a checkup.”
That night, he storms into her on-call room, the scar beneath his watch looking vicious. “A checkup? You can examine me yourself.”
Later…
He corners her in a dilapidated clinic where she's volunteering in the mountains, kneels in the mud, and kisses the top of her foot.
“Yanyan, you said I looked my best when I cried.”
In front of his fiancée, she tears open his shirt and bites his Adam's apple, leaving a bloody mark.
“Chu Weizhang, I saved your life. You think you can marry someone else without my permission?”
[Both virgins / one-on-one romance / rekindled love / she runs, he chases, and there's nowhere to escape]
