[Broken Mirror Restored + Long Separation Reunion + Mutual First Love]
Eight years later, when they meet again, Jiang Nanshan is wearing a white coat, sitting in her clinic, while He Beizheng walks in with another woman.
Their tacit closeness and intimacy fall into Jiang Nanshan’s eyes.
She turns her gaze away, suddenly remembering the night they broke up.
His tone had been restrained and calm, but within his words was an unshakable sorrow and resolve.
He said:
“Jiang Nanshan, you’d better think this through. Once I turn my back tonight, I will never look back again.”
—
Jiang Nanshan had always been clear about her goals. Years later, she achieved her wish of becoming a maxillofacial surgeon, living the quiet life she had longed for.
Meanwhile, after returning to the country, He Beizheng was about to step into a business marriage waiting for him.
They were like two parallel lines—briefly crossing, only to drift farther and farther apart.
Life returned to its proper course, with no more intersections.
At least, that was the ending Jiang Nanshan believed in.
But she never expected that one summer night in August, He Beizheng would ring her doorbell.
“All these years… have you ever thought of me?”
“I have.”
“Do you still care about me?”
“You…”
“Say you care.”
Against her better judgment, the words slipped out:
“I care.”
The moment the words fell, He Beizheng kicked the door shut.
His burning kiss crashed down, as if to fill the eight-year void, nearly suffocating her.
—
Meeting may have been by chance, but reunion was inevitable.
The crown of the dawn redwood always grows toward the sky.
And all these years, he has loved only that one southern metasequoia.
