A Bitter Cure

Eight years ago, Zhao Changnian unilaterally announced that she and Pei Shaochuan were breaking up, then deleted every way to contact him.

When they met again at a department morning meeting, Zhao Changnian found herself inexplicably uneasy under Pei Shaochuan's gaze.

She believed that a decent ex should pretend not to know the other person, even if they met again. Clearly, he didn't see it that way.

He plotted carefully, step by step, drawing Zhao Changnian into his trap.

①

In everyone's eyes, Pei Shaochuan was cool and aloof. Even in the operating room, he remained calm and composed.

Until Zhao Changnian accidentally sprained her ankle one day. That was when everyone learned that even the usually composed Doctor Pei could lose his cool.

Ignoring everyone's shocked stares, he scooped Zhao Changnian up in his arms.

Zhao Changnian, in his arms, was just as flustered. She wanted to say something, but when she looked up, she saw the man's reddened eyes, full of restraint and self-control.

Pei Shaochuan said nothing under Zhao Changnian's gaze. He knew that the restraint he prided himself on was utterly useless around her.

②

By chance, Pei Shaochuan said to Zhao Changnian, "At first, I really did want to know why you asked to break up."

Zhao Changnian's lashes trembled slightly. "What about now?"

"I don't anymore."

Pei Shaochuan's deep, magnetic voice reached Zhao Changnian's ears, and she felt a vague sense of disappointment.

"I wasn't good enough, and that's why I let you slip away."

PS: A simple, sweet little story, not too long, around 180,000 to 200,000 words.

Coming soon: Su Dong is unexpectedly reborn in the body of a girl who shares her name, only to discover that the original owner had arranged a ghost marriage.

On the first day after her rebirth, the person named on the marriage contract comes to her door. He gives Su Dong two choices: marry him at once or die.

Su Dong wants neither, so he gives her a third option: become an unofficial employee of the underworld and deal with vengeful spirits lingering among the living.

On her first day as a trainee reaper, Su Dong receives her first skill: Deprivation. After vanquishing a long-tongued ghost, she notices a tongue has appeared in her System and, curious, taps it. The next second, her own tongue shoots three meters out of her mouth.

Su Dong stares in disbelief: ?

You can do that?

Theme: No matter how many years pass, you are the one I've always waited for, and the only one.