Love in the Proctology Department

Romance-averse therapist x charming, freedom-loving neurosurgeon

Cheng Xuelai had imagined meeting her online boyfriend in person.

According to the rules of storytelling, the essentials were a time, a place, characters, and an event.

She'd imagined countless different scenarios.

What she hadn't expected was that fate had a rare talent for storytelling, and an even rarer talent for putting all the wrong elements together:

Time: after surgery

Place: colorectal surgery ward

Characters: her and her online boyfriend

Event: meeting in person

Special condition: she didn't know she'd already met him

Although she'd always believed that "people with hemorrhoids will achieve great things," that didn't mean she could accept this spectacular, all-out unmasking in a colorectal surgery ward!

Bonus scene:

A typhoon was making landfall. She was glad she'd gone home with him the day before and that he was right beside her, but she couldn't stop blaming herself for falling for him at such an inappropriate time.

Who knew he could be even more inappropriate?

He said so bluntly: "If the world were going to end the very next second, I'd still want you in my bed with me this second."

"I'm begging you, Qin Liyan, think before you speak and act!"

She tried calling him by name to bring him back to his senses.

"How can anyone be the exact opposite of their own name?"

Content warning: Some supporting characters are morally ambiguous, and not everyone will be comfortable with them. I simply want to portray the kinds of people who exist in the real world as objectively as I can. The leads are somewhat Mary Sue-ish (?)

Theme: An insecure writer seeks inspiration by dating online. As she gets to know her online match, she learns to let go of her insecurities. She understands that inflammation in the body is nothing to be ashamed of: it's part of the body. Before a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, it has its own unique qualities too.