Thirteen Years of Secret Love, the Ice-Cold Mogul's Devoted Affection

Ji Mingzhao, 25, the youngest professor of traditional Chinese medicine at Jingbei Medical College. Her mother is the thirty-third-generation heir to the Ji family legacy, and her father is the sixteenth-generation descendant of the Pei family. By day, she’s the most popular professor on campus. By night, she sets up formations and trains deep in the mountains. She can shatter stone slabs with a kick and save lives with a single acupuncture needle.

He Lan Chuan, 33, the youngest high-ranking official in the capital’s elite circles. Born into a military family, he’s ruthless and formidable. But no one knows that, deep in his office drawer, he keeps an oxidized silver needle. For thirteen years, he’s been searching for the girl called “Zhaozhao.”

Thirteen years later, they bump into each other by chance at a street corner, and he finally finds her.

She has no memory of him at all.

He says nothing. He quietly reads all her academic papers and shows up every week, right on time, in the Traditional Chinese Medicine College clinic’s hallway, waiting for her to finish seeing patients.

He tells her, “I was passing by.”

She tells him, “Why are you so stubborn?”

A cold, powerful man who’s been secretly in love for thirteen years, doting on her to the extreme, with a plan long in the making.