Glacial beauty of a doctor × passionate, devoted criminal investigator | Mutual salvation | Rekindled love
I once thought my life had stopped on that winter night when I was twelve.
For seven years, I turned myself into an impregnable island, until Zhou Yu appeared.
He was a spring that came uninvited, yet he said, “Xu An, I'm not here to save you.”
“I'm here to find out with you what lies buried beneath the frozen earth.”
In my sophomore year, I pushed him away with my own hands.
I said, “You're too pure. I don't deserve a future with you.”
He didn't know that I was pursuing justice seven years too late, and that road was too filthy. I couldn't let it tarnish his light.
From then on, we went our separate ways through seven years of bitter winter.
We each fell into our own hell, piecing ourselves back together inch by inch in places no one could see.
We met again in the ruins after an earthquake.
He dug through the rebar with his bare hands, blood and dust falling hot around him, yet he smiled at me:
“Dr. Xu, you said my light was too bright.”
“So now, after crawling back from hell, covered in dirt and grime, am I worthy of loving you?”
It turned out that the true arrival of spring was never about waiting to be saved.
It was an island becoming its own ship, frozen earth cracking open.
It was each of us crossing the long night and forging ourselves into light, only to discover
At the moment two beams of light meet, spring has already bloomed silently between us.
Theme: Love is not about saving each other. It's about becoming fellow travelers on the road to saving ourselves, and finding that along the way, we happen to be there for each other.
It left readers with wonderful imaginations.