Love Heals (the Original Work)

Amid Mom's sighs, she silently finished her dinner and went back to her room to read.

She knew that even after all that had been said, Mom still hadn't given up hope for her and Ning Zhiqian, always believing that Ning Zhiqian was the best man in the world. However, Mom didn't know that Ning Zhiqian was her ideal son-in-law, the perfect son for her former parents-in-law, a great doctor for his patients, and indeed, a good husband to her, Ruan Liuzheng. Yet, he was also Ning Xiang, uniquely belonging to someone else, so much so that even the son he adopted was named Ning Xiang.

Everyone has a past, and she understood that just as, six years later, her white-cloaked Senior Brother Ning still lingered in her heart, time unable to completely erase his shadow. Perhaps, in the next six years, and the six years after that, he would still haunt her mind, and she might even carry his shadow into marriage with another man. But once she decided to marry, she would give all her warmth to that man, not the cold indifference under the guise of tenderness.

Yes, indifference.

In her marriage to him, everyone saw only his tenderness and affection, while she alone saw the hopeless indifference.

She had tried, never once thinking of replacing the person at the top of his heart. She only hoped that the path of marriage could be walked together by two people. However, perhaps she had tried in the wrong way; despite exhausting all her efforts, she still felt alone and ice-cold. And how could she allow herself to walk that lonely, ice-cold path again?

In truth, at the very beginning, he wasn't such an indifferent person. She had seen his smile more than once, like the warm bloom of spring, though that warmth was never for her.

The first time she saw him, she hadn't even turned eighteen yet—a freshman at the medical college.

Back then, she was simple, happy, carefree, with the common little faults of a girl prone to losing and forgetting things clumsily.

Once, due to her carelessness, she forgot to bring something to the laboratory and had to go back to get it. Her classmates had already left, and she was running by herself in a hurry to catch up.

Again due to carelessness, coupled with the rush of being late, she ended up going to the wrong laboratory and, in a fluster, barged in to find an unnerving silence.

She would never forget that moment...

There was only one young man in the entire laboratory, clad in white, fiddling with a microscope.

Her sudden intrusion disturbed him.

He lifted his eyes.

Everything, everything started from that glance; after it, everything was different...

She later pondered for a long time—was the sunlight too dazzling that day? Or was the youth too radiant? In just that moment, her breath was taken away, and so was the rest of her life.

She tried to recall what it was like then, but even now, she couldn't remember what the laboratory looked like or what was around him besides that microscope.

She only knew that in her still breath, all her thoughts also came to a halt, feeling all the beautiful words in the world, like 'handsome' and 'beautiful', were insufficient to describe the one before her.

He wasn't a painting; he was a 'once in a lifetime' encounter in her life.

In a glance, stars shone brightly, the Silver River stretched far.

It was only a moment, but it felt like crossing a thousand years, as if she had gone through hundreds of reincarnations, all for this single moment of encounter.

"Is there something you need?"

With a soft question, the radiant light around him dimmed, and her breath finally returned.