[No Rekindling After the Breakup + Marriage First, Love Later + Protective, Sharp-Tongued Powerhouse Husband + Slow-Burn Cardiac Surgeon]
Core dynamic: A clear-headed, independent rose from a military compound VS a paternal, sharp-tongued power broker in Beijing. It began as a contract, grew from admiration for her talent, and ended in deep devotion.
Everyone in Beijing knew that Ji Tingchen, head of the Ji family, was an aloof, desireless man who kept people at arm's length, a powerful, sharp-tongued paragon of detachment with no apparent weakness.
Until a family-arranged marriage brought him together with Qiao Man, a cardiac surgeon prodigy raised in a military compound.
Qiao Man was twenty-eight, a Stanford medical graduate with a scalpel in hand and lives to save. Fluent in eight languages, she was clear-headed and independent, slow to warm up and sparing with her feelings.
A three-year marriage contract bound her to Ji Tingchen. They agreed not to interfere in each other's lives and to go their separate ways.
The day after they registered their marriage, she left to practice medicine in a Middle Eastern war zone and vanished without a trace for half a year.
After returning, she devoted herself to surgery and lived alone in an apartment, making their contractual marriage little more than a formality.
But no one knew that the usually distant Ji Tingchen had already fallen for her, little by little.
A bowl of homemade soup awakened the warmth he had buried for years, while her brilliance in the operating room found its way into his frozen heart.
He tore up the three-year marriage contract, dropped his detached persona, and became an obsessive, protective powerhouse of a husband, carefully plotting his way into her heart as he fell deeper and deeper.
An ex returned to stir up trouble, a wealthy heiress made life difficult for her, and a childhood friend clung to him relentlessly.
Everyone said Ji Tingchen had picked up someone else's unwanted, withered flower, making him a laughable fool who had taken another man's leftovers.
Until a global livestream of a surgery showed her dazzling the world in her white coat, while the paragon of detachment from Beijing publicly stood up for his wife, his gaze possessive:
“My wife is the one and only, the finest woman in the world.”
Amid all the noise of the world, in the depths of Tingchen's heart, only Qiao Man brings peace, year after year.
The overall story is a bit conservative and monotonous, lacking a bit of unbridled creativity, and the details of the protagonist's life are ambiguous. . Five stars encourage the author