Lin Xia's tattoo needle specializes in picking scars, while Gu Chen's gun is always aimed at old wounds.
The bullet-shell butterfly hairpin he gave him when he was twelve years old became a murder weapon that stabbed into his palm when he was seventeen years old; the rose of thorns she tattooed on his back was the fuse that detonated the past and the thread that sutured the smoke of gunfire.
He used bomb-disposal techniques to unbutton her cheongsam, and she used tattoo frequencies to decipher his secret combat messages;
Bullet casings melted into wedding rings, bandages soaked into hickeys, and blood transfusion records in field hospitals were contracts that predate the marriage contract.
Idea: We don't have to wait for old wounds to scab, we can plant roses directly in the bleeding spots