Wen Ci is a dazzling, uninhibited short-video creator with three million followers. Her motto in life is, “If you like someone, go for it. Never regret it.”
A sudden bout of appendicitis sends her to the emergency room. The doctor who treats her is cool and restrained, with a voice like a cello. But he looks at her as if she's a glass of plain water: bland and unremarkable.
Wen Ci falls for that very “glass of water.” During her three days in the hospital, she pulls out all the stops: writing him a love letter, secretly recording videos, and shamelessly asking, “Do you look better than your ID photo?” When she is discharged, she slips her heart into an envelope, only for it to disappear without a trace.
She thinks their story is over.
Until a pipe bursts in her apartment, and she shamelessly asks, “Dr. Gu, can I stay with you for a few days?” He is silent for ten seconds. “Sure. The guest room.”
Living together, Wen Ci discovers that this man's tenderness is hidden in the little things: when she has menstrual cramps, he massages her back all night; when she stays up late editing videos, he confiscates her phone; when she knocks on his door in sexy pajamas, he drapes a coat over her and says, “You'll catch a cold.”
Wen Ci breaks down. “Gu Qingli, are you even capable or not?”
Only later does she realize he isn't incapable; he's more than capable. He's just no good with words, and much better at showing it. Just as their love finally begins to heat up, misunderstandings come one after another: a childhood sweetheart claiming to be his “fiancée,” the Gu family's class prejudice, and a carefully plotted betrayal… Wen Ci chooses to leave for another country, determined never to see him again. A year later, when her grandmother falls gravely ill, she runs into him again in the consultation room. The usually cool and composed man looks at her with red-rimmed eyes. “Wen Ci, I never gave up on you.” She thought she was the first to fall in love, only to discover that the quiet, taciturn man had given her his heart long before she ever knew.
