I Wish I Could Love You Again: Story Introduction (500 words)
Yin Tangyao is the air force’s youngest “Golden Helmet” pilot. He has flown the J-20 for ten years, completing three thousand sorties without a single mistake. But he harbors a deadly secret: he has the rare Rh-negative AB subtype, known as panda blood. There are no more than three active-duty pilots in the entire air force with his blood type. Every time he takes off, he stakes his life more than his fellow pilots do.
Mi Ai is an attending physician in the hematology department at the Air Force Medical Center. Her first love, Pei Yi, was a pilot who died three years ago when a Y-20 crashed. That accident led her to choose aviation medicine, and made her believe she would never again fall for someone in a flight suit.
Then she meets Yin Tangyao at the annual physical. Her hand pauses when she sees his blood type on his report; his heart skips a beat when he looks into her eyes. There are no melodramatic misunderstandings and no third party getting in their way. Two wounded people take each other’s hands at the end of the runway. She makes him congee, puts together an emergency-care handbook, and researches safeguards for rare blood types. He takes her into the hangar and up to the control tower, and saves her number as his emergency contact. Ke Wei goes from skepticism to acceptance, while their parents go from worry to blessing them. They get married and establish the Yao Ai Fund to build a blood bank for pilots with rare blood types across the air force.
Then he falls ill. He is diagnosed with idiopathic acute autoimmune hemolysis, and his panda blood becomes his most dangerous vulnerability: the window for finding a matching donor is extremely short. A nationwide appeal for blood donors goes out, and blood banks across the country, the air force system, and the rare blood type alliance all mobilize. On the sixth day, a matching unit of blood is found in a northwestern air force blood bank. It was donated two years earlier, and the donor’s signature is “Y.”
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