Five-year age gap / pseudo-siblings / forbidden tension / a fierce contest for her affection
Bai Zhu, the sole heir to Shouzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall, is disciplined and courteous, always dressed in white, with a cool, striking presence.
Li Li has lived with the Bai family for years, and Bai Zhu has become her older brother.
Every day in the Bai household, Bai Zhu cooks and makes soup, keeping Li Li healthy and well.
In late autumn, he reads medical books while knitting a scarf as a gift for Li Li.
After a nightmare, Li Li comes looking for Bai Zhu in her slippers. It is already night, and Bai Zhu's black hair is a little tousled. His smooth, jade-like hand rests on her pulse as he speaks gently: "Li Li, I'll make you some pear soup, all right?"
Bai Zhu truly sees her as his younger sister, and he is a devoted older brother. It seems only natural that Li Li falls for him. He is so wonderful, yet his heart is utterly free of desire.
After starting university, Li Li becomes a medical student who wins a gold medal in shooting.
Fu Jing, Peking University's campus heartthrob, has passed through a hundred gardens without a single leaf clinging to him, until he falls for Li Li. He tells her, "Li Li, you have such a hard heart." So hard that when they meet again, all she can bring herself to say is, "Classmate."
Fu Jing stands downstairs in the rain, refusing to leave, his eyes red and on the verge of tears, like an abandoned puppy.
Bai Zhu watches the dark figure through the window and, as if crossing a line, tightens his grip on Li Li's hand. "It's cold outside. If you get sick, you'll have to take medicine. Be good, Li Li, and your big brother won't have to force you to drink it."
He had already put an end to his younger sister's romance when she was in high school. He never expected that a sickle couldn't cut through the tenacious weeds, and that he'd have to pull them out by the roots and burn them.
It turns out that he, the older brother, had already lost control.
"My Li Li is one of a kind in this world, unique and unmatched." - Bai Zhu
A cool, self-restrained heir to a traditional medicine practice x a bold, sweet medical student
Theme: Do what you want to do.
