The Executioner Who Gets Up Close and Personal

[Rekindled Romance + Love and Hate + Academic Rivals to Lovers]

[He is the old scar in his heart that can never be cut away. He is the ideal of his youth that never died.]

Everyone knew that Qin Que and Shen Jiming, students at medical school, were bitter rivals who couldn't stand each other.

Until someone caught them kissing by the rear entrance of the laboratory building.

The whole school was in an uproar.

Young people's love and hatred were always intense.

They had kissed in the empty laboratory building at dawn, secretly laced their fingers beneath heavy textbooks, and made vows together under the stars.

When an earthquake struck X City, both of them rushed to the disaster zone as volunteers.

After two days of nonstop rescue work, Shen Jiming finally couldn't hold back and pulled Qin Que into a corner.

"Qin Que! The golden window for rescue isn't reserved for VIPs!"

"In the face of death, no life is worth more than another!"

"Be realistic."

Qin Que's brows furrowed heavily with exhaustion as he shook off Shen Jiming's hand.

"Without money, how do you expect to make your fairy tale of equality for all come true?"

Even the most sincere love couldn't overcome the divide between their ideals.

On graduation day,

Shen Jiming threw away the stethoscope Qin Que had given him, and they went their separate ways.

Seven years later, they met again beneath the spotlights of a medical summit.

Qin Que had become the power behind the country's largest medical group, while Shen Jiming was the most renowned thoracic surgeon in the field.

Their eyes met, then looked away.

They tacitly pretended to be strangers.

But when night fell and alcohol clouded their judgment, their bodies betrayed their reason.

They were former lovers who hadn't seen each other in years.

Yet they still remembered every familiar warmth and every way their bodies fit together.

Qin Que's calloused fingertips traced the other's sharp features, his palm clasping the small of his waist.

"This is the only time... you know how to behave."

Shen Jiming frowned and pushed his burning body away with a knee.

"If you're not doing it, get lost. I'll find someone else."

During the day, they were bitter rivals, fighting tooth and nail over treatment plans in the conference room. At night, they were tangled together on the same bed, clinging to each other as if their lives depended on it.

Until one day, Qin Que's name appeared on the treatment plan as the patient.

Among the many experienced doctors, he chose Shen Jiming.

When the surgical lights came on, Qin Que looked at him and smiled.

"Dr. Shen, you're the beneficiary of my will."

"Kill me, or save me..."

He rose and pressed a forbidden kiss to Shen Jiming's ear.

"This time, I'll go with you."

Theme: Love and health are the most precious things we have