Wu Yunqing met a child outside the terminal. That day, the kid held a BB gun and shot straight into her heart.
In the media's eyes, Jiang Xun was a shooting prodigy who rose to fame at a young age, the youngest grand slam champion on the national shooting team.
Even after three years in the wilderness, he returned to the public eye just as forceful and composed as ever, always rational.
Wu Yunqing, meanwhile, was an actress banned from the industry the moment she debuted. After reinventing herself as a director, her very first film won an international award, but that acclaim was forever followed by a barrage of rumors and scandals. Her private life was a mess, and she was a shining cancer in the directors' circle.
The two had nothing whatsoever to do with each other. Then, after making a documentary together, they suddenly announced their relationship after the Olympics closing ceremony and the film festival opening.
Wu Yunqing: I hope my boy will be proud of me.
Jiang Xun: I'll work hard to make my glory something you can be proud of.
Seeing all the intimate photos of them circulating online, Jiang Xun kept quiet and practiced shooting late into the night.
Wu Yunqing smiled and took his hand. "Kid, give your big sister a chance."
Jiang Xun looked at her. "What kind of chance do you want?"
Wu Yunqing: "To turn over a new leaf and reform your ways."
[Content warning: The heroine is genuinely promiscuous, and the hero is a sweet, innocent type.]
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Blurb: Born in the Valley of Divine Healers, Fan Qi grew up with a heart devoted to saving lives. Her whole life, she was as pure as mountain snow and the bright moon shining over a river.
After a fire razed a village, she survived and took in the arsonist, a wolf. A stain that burned her heart touched her palm, and as the years dragged on, it congealed into a drop of blood that could never be washed away.
The posthumous son of a stable hand, Chao Ning lost his mother young and endured years of abuse. After more than a decade of patience, he finally gathered all his hatred into a sea of flames. Trapped in the inferno of revenge and on the verge of death, just before his consciousness faded, he reached out and seized a god.
The senior disciple of the Valley of Divine Healers had a little tail following her around, grinning all day and calling her Master.
Everyone knew the little thing was two-faced, baring his fangs the moment he was away from her. But the senior sister was determined to protect him and paid no heed to the rumors.
Helpless, the others kept their distance as they watched him learn her medical skills, move in next door, drug himself and pretend to be a fool so she would look after him, then fuss over her in every possible way, cooking for her and tasting every herb...
They thought the Valley of Divine Healers' successor had been so thoroughly bewitched that she had lost her mind. But when the truth finally came out, Chao Ning saw her calm face and realized that the secret he had thought so flawlessly concealed had been, in her eyes, nothing but a childish prank full of obvious holes.
"You know I've done nothing but evil and deserve to die. Why did you save me?" Chao Ning clung to a desperate hope. If she still felt even a little affection for him, he was willing to pay any price to wash away his sins.
But the woman, usually so gentle, gazed at him indifferently. "Because compassion is one of the Valley of Divine Healers' precepts."
So his god saw him as nothing more than one among countless ordinary people.
Consumed by obsession, he went mad. He twisted his medical skills into sorcery and poison, and at last, under her disappointed gaze, he exhausted himself and turned white-haired overnight.
The moment Fan Qi became a divine healer, her elderly master took her hand and told her to remember her oath, abide by the rules of medicine, and devote the rest of her life to her calling, never straying from the path again.
Before meeting Chao Ning, Fan Qi thought her master was the person she would become. But after meeting him, the ironclad rules in her heart began to bend.
To save the world and save A Ning: neither could be left out. That was the purpose of her life.
Theme: Have the courage to fight, stay true to yourself, and a flower will bloom in any circumstance.
