The Bedside Darling Is Out, and the Renowned Heart Surgeon Has Red Eyes

Xia Zhiyao was Cheng Xu’s secret lover for three years, hidden away from the world.

She was a resident in his cardiothoracic surgery department, spending her three years of training buried in operating rooms and hospital wards.

She endured countless night shifts, big and small, and even when she was so exhausted that her blood sugar dropped and she fainted, she still didn’t dare bother him any more than necessary.

All because Cheng Xu had once said to her in a cold, coffin-faced voice, “Apart from sex and work, don’t come to me about anything else.”

She carefully remembered those words for three years, never daring to cross the line.

In public, they were a reserved, poker-faced mentor and trainee, keeping their distance at all times.

In private, he was a lover with an overpowering possessiveness.

Yet he still refused to make their relationship public or acknowledge her in any way.

Three years of devotion, three years of holding back.

Xia Zhiyao buried all her love deep in her heart, and finally ran out of hope.

On the day her residency ended, she sold every gift he had given her, submitted a transfer request, and vanished from his world for good.

Later, the whole hospital knew that Cheng Xu, the aloof, taciturn chief physician in cardiothoracic surgery who never let himself fall in love, was searching everywhere for Xia Zhiyao like a madman.

He set aside all his pride and dignity, chasing after her and desperately trying to make her stay. But the girl who once looked at him as if he were her whole world merely raised her eyes with indifference.

“Director Cheng, our bond as mentor and trainee is settled. We have nothing more to do with each other.”