On the day he joined the company, Jiang Nuan glanced at the elevator entrance and only remembered Lu Zhiyan's lonely back and cold white profile.
She thought this was just the most common superior-subordinate relationship in the workplace, but she didn't expect that the appointment of a temporary special assistant for a cross-border negotiation pushed her to his side.
She saw him showing off his sharp edge at the negotiation table, and she also saw him in the deserted corridor, leaning against the wall to hold back his trembling due to stomach cramps; she saw him in the office late at night, pouring painkillers all over the table because of a nervous headache; she even saw him curled up on the sofa due to an asthma attack during the season change, holding a respirator in his fingertips, and his face was as white as paper.
He was indifferent and distant to everyone, but only when she handed her warm water and hand warmers, he accepted the cup of warm kindness.
Later, internal strife broke out in the Lu family, and he was plotted against by his relatives. In the garage on a rainy night, he suffered from stomach bleeding and an acute asthma attack, and he fainted directly in front of her.
As she stood outside the ICU, she realized that she had already fallen in love with this sickly and paranoid man as she watched him day after day.
He held her wrist on the hospital bed, his eyes paranoid and fragile: "Jiang Nuan, don't leave me."
She thought it was the beginning of redemption, but she didn't expect that his controlling desire would grow so much that he would eventually force her to run away.
We met again a year later. At the new product launch conference, he first suffered from stomach pain and his back stooped, and then he bent over due to an acute asthma attack. He was coughing up blood but his eyes were locked on her in the audience.
"I know I was wrong," his voice was hoarse, and his cold fingertips covered the back of her hand, "Can you... Give me one more time so that I can learn how to love you."
Intent: Love is not about control and restraint, but understanding and redemption, and learning to heal each other in the midst of brokenness.