On the night she first walked into the emergency room, she had no idea she would spend three whole years there, going from a contract worker ordered around by everyone to the youngest head nurse in the hospital.
Her name was Wen Jing. Her name meant “quiet,” but her life was anything but. Her mother's white hair, the balance in her bank account, the contemptuous looks people gave her behind her back and to her face, and the endless cold coffee she could never finish on the night shift: all of it piled up until it nearly crushed a twenty-six-year-old woman. But she never thought of running away. Not because she was especially brave, but because she knew that when there's no way back, all you can do is keep moving forward.
Until that man appeared.
Gu Shen, the new head of the emergency department, was a PhD who had returned from overseas, as cold as a scalpel still in its sheath. The first complete sentence he said to her was, “There's a terminology error in your nursing notes.” The second was, “Your hands are steady.” Those two sentences gave her another reason to grit her teeth and carry on through countless tearful nights.
This isn't a story about a prince rescuing Cinderella. It's about one star lighting up another.
This book has the real struggles of the workplace, restrained yet passionate love between adults, unspoken regrets between mother and daughter, and the full story of a woman blossoming from the dust. If life has ever ground you into the dirt, yet you still believe tomorrow will bring light, then this book is for you.
Outside the window stretched an endless night, but she chose to become her own glimmer of light.
