A Doctor and a Patient

[Blurb]

Cheng Shi first met Du Shengsheng in a hospital bed.

A breeze stirred the curtains. Sunlight filtering through the gap fell on the girl's face from time to time, making her delicate features look deathly pale.

Cheng Shi lowered her head to glance at the medical chart in her hand. Her pen tip moved across the page, but her voice still held a smile.

"Du Shengsheng, right? It'll be a while before you can leave the hospital."

The girl ignored her. After a long moment, she turned her face away without expression, then looked up at Cheng Shi, her eyes devoid of emotion.

"I'm not sick."

A pale hand, its joints sharply defined, pulled a knife from beneath the pillow and waved it in the sunlight.

Holding the knife, Cheng Shi looked at her with a smile.

"Kid, it's not nice to lie."

Time passed. Now Du Shengsheng watched the person before her hold a knife and cut line after line into her own wrist, repeating the words she had spoken the first time they met.

"I'm not sick."

Du Shengsheng's eyes had turned red.

"Shengsheng, listen to me. I'm a doctor. I'm not sick. I'll be fine."

Du Shengsheng could bear it no longer. Her tightly shut eyes opened again, and she snatched the knife away with force.

"Then stab me here."

"Sister, if you say you're not sick, then stab me in the heart."

"But do you dare?"

Gentle, refined doctor receiving x capricious, cold heiress pursuing

[Content Notes and Reading Guide]

1. Modern girls' love. Male characters do not get involved in the leads' romantic relationship and only serve to advance the plot.

2. Younger pursuing lead, eight-year age gap, a healing story. The receiving lead has an ex-girlfriend she dated for three years.

3. Doctors cannot heal themselves, and it's hard to save others when you can't save yourself.

4. Happy ending. The first 220,000 characters are written in advance, so feel free to start reading. Daily updates after the paid chapters begin. Before then, updates will follow the site's ranking schedule. After the paid chapters begin, there will be daily updates at 6:00 p.m.

5. The plot serves the romance. This was written by a non-professional, so please bear with me.

[See my profile for completed works] Why Won't You Say You Love Me: rekindled love, sweet and sunny pursuer. The leads will make guest appearances.

Here's a coming-soon title from another modern girls' love story:

This year marks the seventeenth year Li Shuang has loved Jiang Jing in secret.

At a business meeting, she sat expressionlessly across from Jiang Jing, feigning calm as she listened to one business deal after another.

"President Li, this is Miss Jiang, our partner for this project."

Li Shuang glanced past Chen Xing's face and gave a blank nod.

"Li Shuang."

The instant their hands touched, Li Shuang's palm burned as if on fire.

But no one knew that beneath her beautiful exterior, her heart was already in turmoil.

She did not let her gaze linger on Jiang Jing for long.

Beyond the habit of so many years, she realized that she still had a moment when she could barely keep herself in check.

She was still dreaming.

She had thought she had moved on, after all these years.

"Hey, I don't think President Li and I have each other's contact info. How about we add each other on WeChat?"

Li Shuang raised her eyes. Her lashes trembled slightly, and her gaze, as still as an autumn pool, studied Jiang Jing. She seemed about to speak, then stopped.

After they scanned each other's codes, both fell into a long silence.

"I accepted your friend request. We can start chatting now."

But that was nine years ago.

In truth, even before those nine years, they had shared another eight-year history no one knew about.

Counting from today, this was the seventeenth year Li Shuang had known Jiang Jing.

She had thought she was used to being ignored, like a voiceless tide: surging beneath the surface, yet silent all the same.

"Li Shuang, open the door."

But in the seventeenth year of that voiceless tide, Jiang Jing turned around and discovered the stowaway in that deserted sea.

Li Shuang leaned against the door and lowered her head. "Go away."

The sea of longing that had always remained in the shadows was finally laid bare, passionate and turbulent, impossible to avoid and impossible to hide.

Meanwhile, Jiang Jing on the other side felt she was about to go crazy.

"Li Shuang, you've pursued me for all these years. You can't just decide you don't want me anymore."

Avoidant, insecure wolf-cut receiving lead x bright, devious, flirtatious beauty pursuing lead

Theme: Doctors cannot heal themselves, and it's hard to save others when you can't save yourself.