Surgeon x Freelance Illustrator | A Mutual Journey Toward Love
Lu Ze slung an arm over Gu Yanzhi's shoulder, grinning. "Dr. Gu, you finish surgery and don't go straight home. You keep heading to the old district, to noodle shops and night markets. Come on, tell me the truth. Are you waiting for someone?"
Gu Yanzhi lowered his eyes and polished his glasses, his tone so calm it gave nothing away. "It's on the way."
But only he knew there couldn't possibly be so many places that were "on the way."
Gu Yanzhi, an attending surgeon at the city's People's Hospital, spent his days confined to the operating room. He had seen life and death countless times, and was cool and reserved, with a life so monotonous it consisted of nothing but white coats and operating tables. He thought things would stay that way forever, until he met Shen Qingwan.
Meanwhile, at the supermarket counter, Su Ruanruan nudged Shen Qingwan and teased her in a whisper. "Checking the entrance again? Dr. Gu's on the night shift today. Maybe he'll come by later. Are you really going to keep quietly saving him a lunchbox?"
Shen Qingwan tightened her grip on her paintbrush, the tips of her ears growing warm. She murmured in her defense, "I just happened to make it. He likes mild food and doesn't eat scallions or ginger, that's all."
She was a freelance illustrator, and her paintings were always wrapped in a hazy evening mist. When she wasn't working on a deadline, she helped pack lunchboxes at her parents' supermarket, tending to the everyday bustle of the shop.
Their first meeting was a brief passing encounter in a supermarket late at night. One chance meeting after another quietly planted the first stirrings of love in their hearts.
Quietly eating side by side at a noodle shop in the morning, gazing at each other from afar by the riverside at dusk, sharing an umbrella at the supermarket on a rainy night, and leaving a warm light on through a winter night.
