He Returned from Afar

Meeting Zhou Yu was an accident. Back then, I thought I wasn't going to make it, and had given up on myself, planning to just muddle through.

I never expected to run into him at the hospital. Then we got married.

On the day I needed emergency treatment, he, a doctor, actually cried.

I wanted to say something to comfort him, but heard him choke out in my ear, "Chen Yin, I love you."

A little scene:

Dr. Zhou was great at science. They say he scored almost perfectly on the college entrance exam and got into one of the top three medical schools in the country.

I studied humanities. I was terrible at math, and at science too.

One night, I was chatting with a friend, and we started talking about what we still remembered from middle school chemistry.

I rattled off, "Five characters: hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

"Potassium permanganate, manganese dioxide, iron oxide."

He laughed beside me and teased, "That's it?"

I said, "That's pretty good. It's been so many years, and I still remember it."

He sighed and shook his head helplessly.

I immediately sat up and asked, "What do you mean by shaking your head?"

He said, "I picked this idiot, so I'll take responsibility for her."

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*A married-life story, first-person narration, short, and healing.

*Orthopedic surgeon x novelist.

*True-love purist.

*An author with mild depression x a warm, emotionally intelligent doctor.

*No paid chapters during serialization.

Theme: Freedom.