He spent his life healing others, yet could not cure the fate he had set in motion.
Li Ping, a physician on the outskirts of Chang’an, saved Wei Yan, a shadow guard, and freed Shen Lian from his indentured status as a courtesan.
He thought he had given them both their freedom, not knowing that Wei Yan’s devotion was a carefully chosen act of making Li Ping his master, while Shen Lian’s obedient demeanor had never extinguished his ambition.
When he became entangled in a scandal involving the marquis’s household and child trafficking, his friend died a violent death, and Li Ping was dragged into the vortex.
He tried to separate right from wrong, yet could not even see the truth right beside him.
Later, he was once again ordered to leave Chang’an to treat an epidemic. He was gone for eighteen years, experiencing greed, anger, obsession, and love, and witnessing the tangled rights and wrongs of human life.
In a time of chaos, he held a black-robed sect leader he had never met, thinking he was holding an old friend.
At the height of their passion, vines grew from the man’s dantian, blossoming along his meridians into an enchanting, flamboyant red lotus of karmic fire.
At last, unable to deceive himself any longer, Li Ping buried his face against the stranger’s shoulder and wept aloud, accepting that Wei Yan would never return.
He did not know that, driven by a single-minded obsession, Wei Yan had climbed out of the ninth layer of hell and made his way back to his side, one step at a time.
On the Lantern Festival eighteen years later, Shen Lian had already ascended the throne. He sent three million lanterns into the sky to light Li Ping’s way home, then let him go for good.
Unrequited longing will pass, and the pain of parting from a loved one will pass too.
Amid the crowds at Donghua Gate in February, the man tore away his unfamiliar disguise and fell to his knees before Li Ping, saying, “Master.”
The lovers are finally reunited, and all ends happily.
Explanation of the title:
A ladybug can’t turn its head around to see how many spots are on its own back.
In other words, a ladybug can only learn how many spots it has from another ladybug.
If a ladybug’s friend lies to it, or if the ladybug doesn’t trust other bugs, it will never know how many spots it has for the rest of its life.
So Wei Yan, this ladybug, doesn’t even know that he is harmful.
Reader’s Notes:
1. Commoner physician gong × loyal shadow guard shou. The main text is in the gong’s first-person POV, with four chapters in the shou’s third-person POV.
2. They choose each other, are each other’s one and only, and get a happy ending.
3. Shen Lian has one-sided feelings for Li Ping, but eventually lets him go. No love triangle, no threesome.
Theme: Climb mountains and cross rivers to return to your side
I'm really satisfied with this ending. Everyone got what they wanted (although Xiao Shen was not with Xiao Li in the end, they would live and die together). I suddenly felt that at the moment when their lives ended, the three of them would be together forever and never be separated.
I stayed up until three o'clock to finish reading it, feeling lost in the silent night 😭
When I came back, I saw a new episode??? I was really excited and incoherent. This article has become my White Moonlight since I was a teenager a few years ago. The emotional description is plain and delicate without losing tension. It seems that every character is alive. Li Ping and Wei Yan only have eyes for each other. While Shen Lian was obsessed with the doctor, he also indulged his ambitions, and finally chose to let the doctor be free. The sheep, the stone and the kitten all got what they wanted in the end. Although they still had their own scars, they had no regrets in the end. I cried for a long time when I saw the scene where Wei Yan faked his death, but in the end he finally returned to his homeland through thousands of rivers and mountains. Seeing that they can return to a normal life in the extra episode, it feels like the big stone in my heart has finally fallen to the ground. Thank you for giving them such a happy ending???
Although this choice is also good, I am sad... Because I prefer Shen Lian crying
As a reader, I have watched the lives of Li Ping and Wei Yan. They are such good people, so I am always suspicious and afraid that they are not perfect enough and afraid that they are not happy enough. But it doesn't matter, Li Ping and Wei Yan will write perfection together until it becomes even more perfect. Love is an instinct, Wei Yan only has Li Ping from beginning to end, Li Ping is his belief, everything, his life to death, and Li Ping has always followed the direction of his heart. Wei Yan is the direction of Li Ping's heart. It is not an irresistible fate, but Li Ping's own choice, and he has always followed his own heart. All in all, Wei Yan and Li Ping are so good and so good, such a good and loyal dog and his master, Ladybug and her lover are so good and so good, they must be together forever and always be happy, life after life, three lives, three lives, woo woo Woo woo woo, it must be more perfect and more perfect 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 In such a beautiful day, in this happy ending, my eyes are blurred, my nose is sore, my throat is unable to make any more sounds, I am just terrified like walking on a tightrope After all, I am afraid that such a good two people will be hurt and they are not perfect. I am grateful. I finally got what I wanted. May you have a safe and happy journey. This journey is still so, so, so long. It will grow into the kind of [lucky lotus] [lucky lotus] [lucky lotus] 🙏 🙏 🙏.
I really love this book 😭 and read it over and over again
Feeling complete yet not complete
I stayed up until about three o'clock in the morning to finish this article in one go. Why is it so well written and so low in popularity? The part where Wei Yan died made my heart twitch and I really cried. Qwq The author's writing style is very delicate and tender. I haven't seen such a work in a long time.
I saw it only half a year ago, but it feels like half a lifetime has passed. A lot has happened recently, but as long as I see the stories of people like Mianyang Stone Kitten, I feel the pain of separation but also the joy of meeting each other.
It's so perfect that it makes me want to cry [Lie down]