Gentle, celibate surgeon vs. slightly socially anxious museum beauty
[Reunion after a long separation, mutual pining, light and sweet romance]
1/That year, on a snowy Christmas night.
Lu Yiyi went back to the volunteer office to look for her keys, but by a twist of fate, she answered a call from an unfamiliar number across the ocean.
The young man on the other end was Fu Li, from Boston University's School of Medicine.
Over the following year, they had dozens of transoceanic calls.
Lu Yiyi learned that Fu Li had a deep, pleasant voice, but not that he was handsome.
She knew he was a highly intelligent top student, but not that he was also a prominent figure in the Chinese community.
Later, Lu Yiyi joked, "If you really want to thank me, come back to Rongcheng and contribute something to our surgical field."
2/After graduating, Lu Yiyi became a museum docent. With her striking looks and tall figure, she couldn't escape her coworkers' attempts to play matchmaker.
One day, the museum beauty Lu Yiyi used taking her niece to the doctor as an excuse to slip away.
By chance, she booked an appointment with Fu Li, the famous professor at Rong University School of Medicine.
He had only recently returned from abroad, but his refined good looks and ascetic air had already made him a favorite among students. His lectures were famously packed.
As they left, her little niece, speaking through a gap where a tooth had fallen out, said, "Auntie, I think Dr. Fu likes you."
Lu Yiyi patted her niece's head. "Little kids shouldn't say things like that."
3/Lu Yiyi remembered Fu Li.
Not because of the rumors at her alma mater, but because they had crossed paths beneath a camphor tree not long ago.
That day, she was leaving the university library when she happened to see a female teacher confessing to Fu Li.
In a black trench coat, he stood tall and straight, like the first snow on Xishan Mountain: beautiful and quiet.
When he spoke, his voice carried a gentle coolness. "I'm sorry. There's already someone I like."
His tone was distant, and his gaze turned aside, only to meet hers by chance.
Lu Yiyi clearly remembered the quiet, deep look Fu Li had given her in that fleeting moment.
-- First draft of the synopsis, written on 2022.8.25 and saved in a screenshot
-- Inspired by a friend who volunteers at a psychological support nonprofit
Theme: Walk toward the light
