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The phrase “the Seventh Month brings the cooling air” describes a sudden chill, much like the life of Tao Yuan, who was blindsided by a devastating car accident. In an instant, she lost her father, found herself paralyzed from the waist down, and saw her world collapse.
No longer able to walk or perform the folk dances she once excelled at, she watched her father’s tech company spiral into crisis while her first love broke things off with her in the cruelest way possible. Though Tao Yuan remained resilient and brilliant, enduring the weight of her new reality, she lost all faith in love, briefly succumbing to the numbness of hollow, physical distractions.
Six years later, at a social gathering, she meets Wu Shuang, a surgical resident who seems inexplicably drawn to her. Vivacious and optimistic, Wu Shuang is fueled by a burning passion for her life and career a stark contrast to the world Tao Yuan now inhabits. Despite the vast differences between them, Tao Yuan begins to develop feelings she cannot quite name.
But can the bright, idealistic Wu Shuang melt the walls around Tao Yuan with her pure, heartfelt devotion?
Amidst the exhausting daily grind, balancing grueling hospital shifts and complex, relentless medical cases, can this “foodie-slash-resident-surgeon” find a way into Tao Yuan’s complicated, shadowed, and heavy world?
