Escape the Snowy Night [Mutual Redemption]

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--Story blurb--

[Kindhearted, beautiful, encouraging craft blogger like a little sun × gentle older broken-hearted devoted orthopedic surgeon] SC, both virgins, each other's first love, HE, healing and redemption

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Jiang Song's first encounter with Meng Jueming was a stroke of bad luck.

She stayed up late filling orders and ended up in the hospital, where she happened to witness an absurd case of a family harassing a doctor.

The handsome doctor at the center of it calmly laid out the facts, but was soon drowned out by the family members' hysterical wailing and accusations.

With a fight about to break out, Jiang Song had a fit of heroism and stepped in to help him.

Afterward, he pursued her relentlessly to pay her back, like some kind of generous benefactor.

Jiang Song had never met anyone so eager to hand over money. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

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After she helped the handsome doctor, he visited her home and his eyes lit up at all the colorful handmade crafts there.

He said he wanted her to teach him.

Jiang Song: "?"

She took him on as a student.

He was great in every way, except that he had a bit too much strength in his hands and was rather sensitive.

After breaking three clay models and making four ugly little things, he looked frustrated. "Teacher Xiao Jiang, am I a little stupid?"

Jiang Song's heart softened, and she praised him against her better judgment, saying he was the most talented beginner she'd ever seen.

He looked at her with shining eyes. "Were you this good when you were a beginner, too?"

Jiang Song: "..." What do you all think, should I tell the truth?

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Her student has been acting strangely lately.

Under the dim streetlights, he looked dejected as he told her he might not have time to come learn crafts from her anymore.

Jiang Song comforted him. "It's okay, we can have online lessons!"

He looked even more upset and hesitated for a long time.

Under her puzzled gaze, he asked cautiously, "Jiangjiang, could I... hug you?"

Jiang Song thought it might be time to kick him out of her school.

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Jiang Song is actually afraid of marriage.

Meng Jueming found out on the snowy night he confessed his feelings to her.

[Once there was a little rabbit who lived in a pitch-black house made of snow. She was always battered by wind and snow. She lit candles to keep warm and did her best to get by.

One day, a golden-haired puppy knocked on her door and showed her that beyond her home, the weather was warm and sunny. Holding her candle, she cautiously approached the door and peered outside. There stood the puppy with a bouquet, happily inviting her to play in the grass.

But the little rabbit worried that if she left home to play with the puppy, she would be caught in another snowstorm. So the puppy held an umbrella over her, and at last she found the courage to step out of that cold, snowy night.]

“She will escape that snowy night, and when spring comes, she will accept the bouquet in her beloved's hands.”

[Extra scene]

Whenever Jiang Song has a rush of orders, she stays up very late, and her disrupted schedule has made her a little sick.

Meng Jueming decides that Jiang Song should keep teaching while he finishes her remaining orders. Jiang Song refuses without a moment's thought, saying she's afraid a customer will post online warning people to avoid her.

As soon as she says it, she realizes she was a little harsh and apologizes to him. “Sorry. We should use positive reinforcement. I should focus on praising you so you'll be motivated to learn.”

He takes her advice to heart and applies it with a little extra creativity.

Late at night, the covers are hot and damp. She clings to his neck, pressed tightly against him, panting softly against his shoulder, too tired to open her eyes.

The man gently brushes the sweat-damp hair from her forehead, kisses her still-flushed cheek, and soothes her softly. “You're doing so well, baby. Shall we try a different position?”

He nuzzles her, whispering indistinctly as he sucks on her earlobe. “You'll praise me this time, too, right?”

Orthopedic surgeons sometimes need to be in good physical shape. Jiang Song has come to understand the meaning of that sentence all too well.

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Reader's guide:

1. Neither lead has a good family background, and the story deals with some heavy family issues. Please read with caution if that bothers you. The heroine will not reconcile with her family. There will be a major conflict later, and she will accept the hero after breaking with her family for good.

2. Details about the characters' professions are based on information found online. Please don't overanalyze them or compare them with real life.

------Coming soon------

[Oblivious charmer/cool, sweet girl × needy puppy/jealous, possessive husband]

Both virgins, each other's first love, HE.

Her perspective: married first, love later | His perspective: secret love comes true | Childhood friends | Sweet everyday life | Jealous green-tea puppy antics

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After going on six blind dates in a month, Jiang Shuyao is emotionally exhausted, but her elderly father is still eager for her to settle down.

Just then, her childhood friend Duan Xiao asks her to marry him.

He promises, “After we're married, I won't interfere with anything you do. If you want a divorce, we can get one whenever you like.”

Jiang Shuyao and Duan Xiao have been childhood friends, and it isn't the first time they've helped each other fend off admirers. Marrying him should be easy.

So, in the summer of her twenty-fifth year, Jiang Shuyao and Duan Xiao register their marriage.

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After they marry, Duan Xiao keeps his promise and never interferes in her affairs.

Jiang Shuyao plans to give him his freedom as soon as he falls for someone, then gradually fade out of his life with her blessing, so they can both be happy.

Until she returns home a little late after celebrating a male friend's birthday.

Her childhood friend and husband in name only silently comes out of his room, his handsome face flushed with a high fever. He wraps his arms tightly around her waist from behind.

His tall frame encloses her, and his fever-hot cheek rubs against the hollow of her neck again and again.

His hoarse voice is full of hurt and panic. “Yaoyao... do you not want me anymore?”

Jiang Shuyao quickly reaches back to feel his forehead, thinking in shock, Has the fever gone to his head?

Their marriage is fake to begin with!

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Everyone can see how Duan Xiao feels about Jiang Shuyao, except Jiang Shuyao herself.

After years as childhood friends, his confession has been delayed again and again. At last, he gets his chance.

She urgently needs someone to marry.

At three in the morning, Duan Xiao dreams that Jiang Shuyao has married someone else. He bolts upright in bed, drenched in cold sweat.

At 3:05 a.m., he calls a friend who has an aunt who's a top French jewelry designer.

“Get me a diamond ring, the biggest and sparkliest one! As soon as possible!”

His friend is dumbfounded. “You don't even have a girlfriend. What do you need a diamond ring for?”

Duan Xiao grits his teeth. “By the time the ring gets here, I'll have one!”

Duan Xiao: Whatever, I'll claim the title first.

The opportunity comes too suddenly. Before he can get ready, she's already looking for a partner on the dating scene.

There are way too many toads in this world. It's infuriating. She meets one today, then another tomorrow...

If witchcraft were real, he'd turn all those men into little straw figures and stick them with a thousand needles every day!

Jiang Shuyao can only have him by her side. All the other toads, back off, back off, back off!

[Extra scene]

Jiang Shuyao has never met a man more sensitive than Duan Xiao.

She goes out of town for work and doesn't take him with her.

He crouches beside her packed suitcase and looks up at her pitifully. “Do you not love me anymore?”

She works late and, not wanting to wake him, slips into bed as quietly as she can without hugging him.

He clings to her, refusing to let go, and nibbles her ear, his voice full of grievance. “Do you not love me anymore?”

Jiang Shuyao looks at the man wrapped around her like an octopus and says nothing.

A few seconds later, she gives in and hugs him back.

Oh well, she loves him, after all.

Reader's guide:

1. The wedding vows in the blurb are from an online source. The line “There are way too many toads in this world... She meets one today, then another tomorrow” was inspired by Consort Hua's dialogue in Empresses in the Palace.

2. The story is primarily set in a modern city, with some memories of their youth woven in.

Theme: To love others, you must first love yourself.