A middle-aged love story: A widowed Jiangnan doctor who's barely smiled in eight years VS the chairman of Qingyan Hall, who remained unmarried for twenty-two years after being led astray by a medical record
Su Zhinan has been a widow for eight years, raising her eight-year-old daughter alone at Jishitang in Suzhou, Jiangnan.
She thought this was how her life would be forever. She never imagined that a brother and sister would make an appointment for a gynecology visit on Cang Street, and a few months later,
she'd find the words “arsenic preparation” in her father's old medical record from thirty years ago.
Her father hadn't died of an illness.
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Su Niannian is eight and grew up beneath the osmanthus tree in the back courtyard of Jishitang. She's never met her father and doesn't feel she's missing anything.
She never imagined that, three seconds after her mother's fingers paused on the examination table, a man in a suit would light a kind of glow in her mother's eyes she'd never seen before.
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Xie Qingyan came to Cang Street. He never imagined that, when he came to settle a debt from thirty years ago on his father's behalf, Su Zhinan would show him the ledger first. Inside was a plea for help his father had received in 1985 but never answered.
P.S. Heroine is 40, hero is 38 (Xie is two years younger than Su).
P.S. The twenty-two years of unrequited love are real, but the hero isn't a stalker. He's moved on, he just hasn't met anyone else who could make him fall in love.
P.S. The antagonist is a collateral relative of the hero. The crimes were committed by the grandfather's generation, and the hero's direct family also owes the Su family a response.
P.S. A blend of healing and mind games, with a focus on traditional Chinese medicine and a strong Jiangnan atmosphere.
