Snow-Skin Mooncake x Scheming Peacock | Mutual Pining, Reunited After Years Apart
Endless overtime, a romance on the verge of breaking up, and a recurring bout of sinusitis: Cang Xiao would rather be dead. After seeing Western doctors too many times, she made an appointment with a traditional Chinese medicine doctor this time.
She stepped into the examination room and froze. Wasn't this the cool, aloof heartthrob she had secretly loved in high school? How had he turned into such a gentle gentleman?
And the doctor was clearly surnamed Li, which didn't add up!
"Have a seat. What's bothering you?" Xue Lin introduced the person in a white coat behind him. "This is an intern. Pay him no mind."
Cang Xiao slowly sat down.
Who was paying attention to the intern? She was paying attention to the doctor.
Doctor Xue was skilled. After examining her nasal passages and tongue coating and taking her pulse, he correctly identified the root of the problem.
Doctor Xue was considerate, too. He prescribed nasal medication and personally demonstrated how to use it.
Cang Xiao smiled, keeping up her usual cool, distant image.
Until she sneezed, sending the medicine flying and blowing a snot bubble.
She was supposed to come back for a follow-up after a week of taking the medicine. When she booked another appointment, Cang Xiao noticed not only the deputy chief physician title after Xue Lin's name, but also Doctor Li's photo.
Wasn't that the intern sitting behind Xue Lin?
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For her final follow-up, Cang Xiao booked the last appointment of the day.
She stared at the long, slender fingers resting lightly on her wrist, her heart beating a little faster.
Xue Lin: "You drank something cold."
Cang Xiao: "...Oh."
Xue Lin: "You stayed up late."
Cang Xiao: "...Ah."
Xue Lin: "You broke up."
Cang Xiao: "...Huh?"
Xue Lin took off his white coat, revealing a crisp, casual shirt and slacks underneath. He looked just as he had the last time they met, the day she turned away and cried.
He nudged his glasses up. "You can read a lot from someone's pulse."
Cang Xiao gripped her bag strap. "Like what?"
"Like how you're hungry right now. Let me take you out to eat, okay?"
"Okay."
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Later, Cang Xiao noticed a pattern. Whenever Xue Lin took her pulse, she inevitably had to expend more energy than usual that night.
"Tell me, what exactly are you reading?"
A smile flashed in Xue Lin's eyes. "The chi pulse governs the kidneys. What do you think?"
Cang Xiao: "...You're a scary man."
Then she asked, "You can't read minds too, can you?"
Xue Lin wrapped an arm around her. "If I could read minds, what would you want to know?"
Cang Xiao thought: During all three years of high school, why couldn't you look only at me?
Xue Lin thought: During all three years of high school, why was I the only one you never looked at?
Reader's guide:
1. The heroine is still in a relationship at the beginning. After the breakup, it's a one-on-one romance. The heroine is not a virgin, the hero is.
2. Neither lead is perfect. Back in school, they were both proud and stubborn.
Theme: Protect each other's pride
