Su Nian transmigrates into a novel as a supporting character with a terminal illness and less than a year to live.
The System binds itself to her heart: “Win over the male lead, Fu Sichen, and live. Fail the mission, and die.”
Fu Sichen, CEO of Simu Medical Group and inventor of the cardiac assist device “Heart-Drive,” keeps a steady heart rate of 62, as precise as a machine that never breaks down.
Su Nian doesn’t cry, get down on her knees, or start trying to “heal him with tenderness.”
She goes straight to him in the middle of the night and slaps a heart-rate monitor onto the table:
“Fu Sichen, I’ll take your heartbeat on a monthly plan.”
She thinks it’s just a transaction: she’ll keep him alive, and he’ll keep her alive in return.
But she doesn’t know this:
The first time Fu Sichen saw her was at a charity gala when he was twenty-four. His heart rate rose from 62 to 67.
A 0.1-second discrepancy. He remembered it for three years.
She doesn’t know this either:
The chestnut cakes listed as “company perks” each month are ones he goes out of his way to buy during business trips to Nancheng. He always orders them with double sugar.
And she has no idea that:
Every time she gets close, his heart sends out a false alarm.
And whenever she turns away, his heart rate drops to 56: the number it was on the day his mother died.
Later, a gentle and perfect second male lead appears.
He remembers Su Nian’s tastes, her schedule, and every offhand remark she’s ever made.
But he looks at her as if she were a target he must clear to finish the game.
Fu Sichen has never been like that.
He never says he loves her.
He simply saves every abnormal heart-rate reading from the past three years, all 147 of them, in a folder called “Cause Unknown.”
Cause unknown.
Diagnosis: You.
