In the height of summer, amid the noisy bustle of a hospital, Jiang Shuyan reunites with someone from her past.
Thirteen years have passed, yet Wen Ruan still seems impossibly out of reach.
Looking at the thick stack of examination reports, Jiang Shuyan asks, "Are you doing all right?"
Wen Ruan hesitates for a moment, then smiles. "It could be worse."
The worst things that happened to me, you already know about, don't you? she thinks.
To Wen Ruan, Jiang Shuyan, that unattainable beauty, has always outshone all her own brilliance.
Once, she was an ordinary girl who made a legend of herself as the top student. Now, she's a cool and distinguished CEO. Wen Ruan, meanwhile, is just an ordinary doctor with an average salary, rushing back and forth between life and death.
Everyone thinks Jiang Shuyan and Wen Ruan are bitter rivals, always competing for first place.
No one knows that, during those restless years, each saw the other as someone she could never hope to have.
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After years apart, they reunite on a hot summer night. The air is stifling, just like before, and yet not at all like before.
At a class reunion, a tipsy man makes a lewd remark to Jiang Shuyan, his words full of malice.
Wen Ruan gets up and throws her drink over him. "You begged and pleaded for people to come to this reunion, then insult them when they show up. That's incredibly classless."
In that instant, an image from fourteen years ago flashes through Jiang Shuyan's mind.
That day, a group of people cornered her in an alley, screaming at her and wantonly abusing her.
"Have you all gone crazy?" A loud voice silenced the crowd. "Looks like your studies haven't been hard enough lately. Are you itching for a beating? How dare you bring these people here to bully a classmate!"
The bleached-blond leader knew Wen Ruan.
"We just wanted to make friends with the top student. We were only messing around," the blond muttered. "Do me a favor."
"You don't even have any dignity. Why are you asking for face?"
How adorable Wen Ruan was when she went politely berserk: frank and sincere, gentle and kind.
Jiang Shuyan secretly resolves that this time, she will enter Wen Ruan's world.
-A gentle but unhinged internist x a cool, scheming CEO who takes the initiative
-Set in a world where same-sex marriage is legal
Theme: Have the courage to pursue love and let yourself be loved
Damn, wait for the update~