Gu Linshen hated all the smells in the world.
After his mother died on the operating table when he was thirteen, his sense of smell became extremely sensitive—he could smell death, fear, and lies. At 28 years old, he is the youngest deputy chief physician of cardiac surgery. His scalpel is as stable as a machine and his heart is as cold as ice. He lives in a sterile world that only smells of disinfectant.
Until a girl ran into his arms at the subway station during the Monday morning rush hour.
The fragrance of gardenia. Light and clean, with the body temperature and sweat after running. Before he could speak, she had already apologized and ran into the carriage, leaving only a white petal, a rabbit eraser, and three words on her homework book.
Later he discovered that she lived downstairs, separated by a floor, and he could smell the fragrance of flowers wafting from her balcony every day. Then the gardenia suddenly lost its fragrance. She no longer wore that bottle of perfume, no longer took the initiative to look for him, could not eat, and was so thin that she lost her appearance.
She said it was seasonal rhinitis and stomach trouble, but she had successfully lost weight.
He believed it all.
He never knew that there was an encrypted folder hidden in her mobile phone, and the video in it recorded every moment of her relationship with him - the first meeting in the subway station, the first conversation on the balcony, the night when his operation failed, she sat with him in the stairwell all night. The file is called "Yu Xiang".
She said that the gardenia would fade, but she wanted him to remember it longer.
She said it was selfish.
But liking someone is inherently selfish.
