Burning Blade
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Summary
[Modern romance | Double strong leads | Mature man and woman | Redemption | Ambiguous push-and-pull]
The year Lin Qiang was about to be promoted to attending physician, she resigned—and casually dumped her handsome, wealthy, and devoted professor boyfriend.
With her scant luggage, she pushed open the door of a home she hadn't returned to in nearly a decade. After tidying up, she walked straight to the secondary bedroom and lit three sticks of incense.
No one else could understand her choice, but only she knew: if her trembling right hand went untreated, it wouldn't just be a matter of being unable to hold a scalpel.
But she needed money. As a PhD in the final year of residency training, she hadn't reached the stage where she could accumulate wealth. Just then, a close friend handed her a deal: get a young man named Jin Fan to accept heart treatment.
Looking at the advance payment that had landed in her account, Lin Qiang understood—this job was not simple.
Sure enough, when she walked out of Jin Fan's run-down factory, clutching her reddened neck, her friend's consolation call came through—
"You didn't tell me the truth."
"Lin Qiang, I'm sorry. His situation is a bit complicated... Are you still taking this job?"
"Yes."
And so, two people long sick to the point of madness tore at each other's clothes and, in the shivering cold wind, shared a sip of strong liquor.
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy romance with mature push-and-pull and strong-versus-strong confrontation
- Readers who resonate with the professional pressure and career-change dilemmas of medical practitioners
- Romance readers who prefer the contrast pairing of an aloof heroine and a roguish hero
- Readers who want realistic grounding and redemption themes within genre fiction
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting light, sweet, pressure-free reading
- Readers who do not accept a physical confrontation in the leads' first encounter
- Professional readers with extremely high demands for medical detail accuracy
Reading tips
- Note the recurring tremor in Lin Qiang's right hand first, and treat it as the key clue to understanding all her choices.
- Pause at the factory confrontation and the friend's phone call to feel the inequality and testing at the start of their relationship.
- Read the incense-lighting scene in the secondary bedroom alongside the later family backstory to better understand the emotional logic behind the heroine's resolve.
- Best read over two or three consecutive evenings; the shifts of offense and defense in the emotional line require continuous reading to avoid feeling disjointed.
About the publisher
Founded in 1988 and affiliated with China CITIC Group, CITIC Press focuses on business and economics, social sciences, literature and children's books, with common categories covering social sciences, finance, literature, Eastern philosophy and literary appreciation. Its library holds 91 titles, including Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens trilogy, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Wu Xiaobo's Thirty Years of Strife: Chinese Enterprises 1978–2008, Nelly Sachs's The Weight of Butterflies: Selected Poems of Nelly Sachs, as well as New Interpretations of the Analects and Chiang Hsun's lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber. Its authors and translators include Lin Junhong, Ba Shusong, Chen Li and Chang Fen-ling. Overall, the press introduces influential works in finance and social sciences while balancing classic translation and local appreciation in literature and Eastern philosophy, combining academic depth with accessible reading.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 第一章 10° 试探
- 第二章 20° 摩擦
- 第三章 30° 摊牌
- 第四章 60° 上瘾
- 第五章 70° 羁绊
- 第六章 80° 脱轨
- 第七章 37.2° 致吾妻
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About the author
Su Ta is a Chinese web novelist and an author on Jinjiang Literature City, born under the sign of Scorpio. Public information about her is limited, and details such as her dates of birth and death are not recorded; the thirteen works held in the collection are the currently verifiable body of her work. She is known for urban emotional fiction and literary coming-of-age romance, with a restrained and delicate style that makes frequent use of metaphor, lending a degree of literary texture to genre romance. Her representative works include Blind Lamp, To Wang Lun, Red Wine Green, I Come from the East, Calling for Rain and Far Away, as well as Burning Knife, The General, Leap Year, Xie Chunguang and Red Happy Event. Her works generally fall under contemporary romance and youth literature, often centering on the emotional entanglements and personal growth of urban men and women, and have drawn readers who favor finely wrought emotional writing.
