Rebirth of Love: Jiang Ciyou's Counterattack Legend

Scene: Jiang Ciyou stood in the hospital corridor, the smell of disinfectant piercing her nose. She clutched her mother's medical certificate, her knuckles turning white, and the sycamore tree outside the glass curtain wall was shedding its last dead leaf.

Memory flashback:

- On a rainy night 20 years ago, 12-year-old Jiang Ciyou hid in the closet, listening to the sound of porcelain breaking in the living room. His father pushed his mother down on the sofa and screamed, "Who do you think you are? You are just my mistress who I bought with money!"

- The mother curled up on the carpet, her hair covering her bruised cheeks, but she still comforted her with a gentle voice: "Don't be afraid, Xiaoyou, mom will protect you."

- When Jiang Ciyou was an adult, her mother quietly put the ancestral jade bracelet into her palm at her wedding: "If marriage is a cage, break it and fly out."

Reality:

"Ms. Jiang?" The attending doctor's voice startled her. "Your mother's condition is more serious than we expected. Her memory seems to be stuck around the time of your marriage."

When Jiang Ciyou opened the door, her mother was sitting on the hospital bed, staring blankly out the window. She walked forward and tried to hold her mother's hand, but was violently pushed away.

"Who are you?" The old man curled up at the head of the bed cautiously, "Where is Lu Jingchen? He said he would take me to see the stars..."

Lu Jingchen's plan:

Late at night, Lu Jingchen stood in front of the French window in his study, the cigar between his fingers flickering. The glass reflected the fatigue in his eyes, but it still couldn't hide the tenderness deep inside.

"Jingchen, mom..." Jiang Ciyou's voice was choked with sobs.

He turned around and hugged her in his arms, his heartbeat steady and strong under his suit: "I have checked the latest Alzheimer's treatment. An institution in Germany is testing genetic memory reconstruction technology."

"How much is it?"

"It's not about money." Lu Jingchen stroked the back of her neck gently, "They need the cooperation of the patient's closest person to rebuild the memory anchor point."

The next morning:

Lu Jingchen walked into the ward wearing a white coat and carrying a toolbox in his hand. The old man's cloudy eyes suddenly lit up: "Doctor Lu, will you teach me how to draw stars today?"

He smiled and brought over the drawing board: "Today we will draw roses."

Memory Card Details:

- Lu Jingchen made 365 memory cards by himself, each with a QR code printed on the back. Jiang Ciyou scanned the code and found that each card corresponded to an important moment in their lives:

- Photo 127: On a winter night in 2015, Jiang Ciyou met a drunk Lu Jingchen in a bar. He looked up at her and smiled: "Sister, can you lend me your shoulder to lean on?"

- Photo 243: When Jiang Ciyou had a miscarriage, Lu Jingchen repeatedly folded paper cranes at the door of the operating room, with blood oozing from between his fingernails.

- No. 365: They buried a time capsule in Antarctica, and Lu Jingchen secretly carved on the inner wall of the capsule: "I love you, it has nothing to do with life or death."

The old woman suddenly started coughing violently, and Lu Jingchen hurriedly handed her warm water. She trembled and grabbed his wrist, tears welling up in her cloudy eyes: "Jingchen, am I dying?"

"No, Auntie." He patted her back gently. "When you get better, I'll take you to Iceland to see the Northern Lights."

"Aurora..." The old man's eyes became distant. "When Xiaoyou was a child, she always said that she wanted to go see the Aurora with the person she loved. Later, she met you..."

Jiang Ciyou stood outside the ward, watching Lu Jingchen combing his mother's hair through the glass window. The moonlight shone on his back like a silver armor.

"Do you regret it?" she asked suddenly.

Lu Jingchen turned around, his eyes gleaming behind the lenses: "What are you regretting?"

“If it weren’t for me, you could have inherited the Lu family and wouldn’t have to play the role of a doctor every day.”

He walked over and pressed her against the wall, his breath spraying in her ears: "I only regret one thing - I didn't meet you earlier, and let you suffer so much."

At three o'clock in the morning, Jiang Ciyou was awakened by her mother's crying. When she rushed into the ward, the old woman was holding the jade bracelet and shaking: "This is Xiaoyou's dowry, I can't lose it..."

Lu Jingchen gently took the jade bracelet and turned it towards the moonlight: "Auntie, do you think there is a dragon in this bracelet?"

The old man leaned in to take a closer look, and his cloudy pupils suddenly contracted: "Dragon... This is the totem of the Lu family! Xiaoyou's husband's surname is Lu..."

The old woman's eyes suddenly became clear, and she grabbed Jiang Ciyou's hand: "Daughter, I'm sorry, I... I remember everything."

Lu Jingchen quietly left the ward and leaned against the wall, listening to the mother and daughter crying. He took out his cell phone, looked at the photo of his daughter when she was one month old in the album, and smiled silently.

When Jiang Ciyou walked out of the ward, Lu Jingchen was talking on the phone at the end of the corridor. In the morning light, his profile seemed to be coated with a layer of gold.

"Jingchen." She called him softly.

He turned around, revealing a corner of yellowed paper in his suit pocket - it was his cancer diagnosis.

- Lu Jingchen was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer three years ago, but he concealed his illness and secretly funded Alzheimer's research.

- Lu Jingchen’s birth date is engraved on the inside of the jade bracelet. This was the “match made in heaven” that Jiang’s mother secretly asked someone to calculate.

- On the sycamore tree outside the ward window, there is a surprise that Lu Jingchen prepared for Jiang Ciyou - a "sea of ​​stars and lights" arranged by drones. Each star is an important node in their love.

Jiang Ciyou put the jade bracelet back on her mother's wrist, and the star lights outside the window suddenly lit up. Lu Jingchen hugged her from behind, his chin resting on the top of her head: "When Auntie is discharged from the hospital, we will take her to Iceland to see the northern lights."

"Okay." She hooked her fingers around his, "Then let's go to Antarctica to see our time capsule."

Under the moonlight, their shadows intertwined into a heart on the wall, as if saying: Love is a memory that never fades.