He Says There Is No Cure for This Medicine

Wei Jingxing uses rules to protect himself, while Shan Zhuo keeps people at a distance with his gentleness.

Until one rainy night, he drapes his coat over him and says just two words: "Don't catch cold."

One is a brilliant lawyer trying to escape his origins; the other is a gentle traditional Chinese medicine practitioner trying to flee the fate laid out for him. Two men accustomed to walking alone are forced closer together amid conspiracies and a hunt. Their opponent is a woman consumed by a love that claims to be "for your own good."

True freedom isn't escaping everything. It's having the courage to choose, and finding someone you'd willingly stop for.

He says there is no cure for this illness. You're the only answer.

Theme: This is a story about breaking free and finding a home. Wei Jingxing builds a high wall of rules and reason, trying to escape the stain of being born an illegitimate child. Shan Zhuo uses gentleness and distance to keep others away, trying to escape the path laid out for him. In each other, they find not salvation, but a mirror, one that reflects the desires they dare not admit: to be loved unconditionally, and to have somewhere to set down every disguise. True freedom isn't escaping every restraint. It's having the courage to choose, then willingly stopping for someone.