Carrying a Lantern in Daylight: I’ll Lend You My Five Senses

[A detached, icy billion-dollar business empress × a mad, obsessive genius doctor | Shared five senses | Taking on each other’s pain | Mutual salvation | Happy ending | Dilraba Dilmurat | Chen Feiyu] He Simu, head of the He family conglomerate, was born with a condition that left her unable to feel. In her twenty-five years of life, she has never seen color or tasted flavor, and knows neither pain nor joy. She is a cold-blooded monster feared by everyone in the business world, unable to shed even a single tear when her loved ones pass away. That is, until Duan Xu, a neurosurgical genius at Huaqing Hospital, barges into her world. To outsiders, Dr. Duan is gentle and sunny. Deep down, however, he is a madman who will stop at nothing. He cuts into his own nerve endings and places half his life in her hands through an unprecedented sharing of the five senses. The first time she sees the blue sky, he coughs up blood in the shadows. The first time she hears a melody, his vision grows dimmer by the day. When a blade cuts her, he takes on all her bone-deep pain, then smiles and comforts her: “It doesn’t hurt.” When the diagnosis of his nervous system’s deterioration is exposed, the business empress, who hasn’t shed a tear in twenty-five years, finally breaks down. Her eyes red, she clutches his collar: “Duan Xu! Do you really think I can’t feel pain for you?!” The man’s eyes have already lost focus, yet he kisses away her tears with stubborn devotion. “For you, I’d gladly descend into hell.” In her gray-and-white world, he is the only lantern that can light up the day.