Next up: Touching Your Heartbeat
The first time Jiang Yunji saw Tan Pianchi, she fell for him at first sight: a man dressed in white, his robes fluttering in the breeze, a face she would remember for a lifetime.
Only after she joined his team did she learn that beneath the refined young gentleman, as clear and bright as the moon, lurked the face of a jade-faced King of Hell.
Under his rigorous training, Jiang Yunji improved at an astonishing pace, and the two grew increasingly in sync. She thought their feelings were growing that way, too.
Until he told her, "We're nothing more than master and disciple."
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Years passed before they met again, at a consultation for a highly complex surgery.
Jiang Yunji acted professionally, as though she and Tan Pianchi were meeting for the first time. When the consultation ended, she politely said goodbye. "Goodbye, Professor Tan."
That night, many at the hospital saw Tan Pianchi, who never touched alcohol, downing one glass of hard liquor after another at a bar.
Light glinted off his glass and flickered in his eyes, sparkling in tiny fragments. They heard him murmur to himself:
"Your wings have grown strong, and now you can't even call me Master."
[Since you left, through every restless, sleepless night, I've longed to touch your heartbeat again.]
Proud, aloof, and refined gentleman vs. sensitive, growing young woman
Unrequited love becomes mutual / Reunion after years apart / Age gap
Theme: Love inspires us to become better
