A sunflower growing from the ruins × a scalpel sinking into the White Tower
On Jiang Xin's first day working in hospital administration, she meets Jiang Yuxing outside an operating room. He is composed and professional, with a distant air, and is the hospital's rising star in surgery. As their eyes meet, fate once again smiles an innocent, cruel smile.
Eight years earlier, in the early hours of the morning, he performed the first lead-surgeon operation of his career. Sixteen-year-old Jiang Xin lay beneath the surgical lights, trembling and hoping he would hold her hand. She didn't yet know how this operation would sever her life in two.
She lost four-fifths of her small intestine, spent a long time in the hospital, and was left permanently disabled. She refused to accept that this was her fate.
After finally finding a job, she never expected to become his patient again.
If someone devoted his whole life to protecting and comforting you, yet guilt kept him from facing his love for you, could you forgive him?
If this sin wasn't his to begin with, but it had to end with him, would you be willing to walk by his side?
That is, if you love him too.
Trauma, emergencies, illness, healing, and death. Through one medical case after another, the story reflects on the gains and losses of medical progress and explores the light and darkness of human nature.
If silence is what a group agrees is right, if silence is an invisible social rule, I still refuse to be silent. I am willing to sacrifice myself to set the record straight.
But how can I love you in this broken body?
Reader's Guide:
1. Happy ending. The entire story is complete. Is it angsty? 🤔 That depends on the reader. There's no forced angst.
2. A realistic medical setting and a slow-burn romance.
3. Told from a woman's coming-of-age perspective. No romance before adulthood, no breach of medical ethics, and no plot involving the abuse of women.
4. No character is perfect. Some professional inaccuracies may be unavoidable. All events in the story are fictional and should not be used as medical or legal guidance.
5. The plot and romance are equally weighted. Readers who prefer sweet or feel-good stories should proceed with caution.
Theme: Protect the faint glimmer of life.
