Song Qiyue had never seen anyone who smiled as much as Li Qing. She smiled carelessly, unfathomably. Li Qing smiled when she helped Song Qiyue forge a parent's signature in high school, smiled when she first kissed Song Qiyue on a boat during a winter break trip in grad school, smiled when she leaned over and hugged Song Qiyue's waist during a break from doctoral research. Even when Song Qiyue broke up with her after years together, Li Qing smiled faintly, with not a trace of sadness in her eyes. At the breakup, Song Qiyue asked, "Let me ask you a somewhat cliché question: did you ever love me?" Li Qing smiled lightly and replied, "I did." Song Qiyue looked at those smiling eyes and said, "Hmph, I don't believe you." She turned and closed the door, ending more than a decade of feelings. Song Qiyue should have known: that poor student Li Qing was only with her for her family's connections in the medical field. After clinging to her to get through school, successfully completing her PhD and entering the best hospital, this fake relationship naturally wouldn't last much longer. Later, they met again when Song Qiyue got stabbed in the left buttock during a mission and was sent to the hospital where Li Qing worked. ... This was really the most idiotic ex-reunion scene ever. Li Qing stood before Song Qiyue, who was bent over with her butt in the air, holding a syringe, with those same unfathomable smiling eyes above her mask: "Even if you miss me, you don't have to come see me in such a miserable way." Song Qiyue thought: Damn it %*#@#@%%* Still smiling! Still smiling! Does she have no other expression on her face?! And—is she human?! Is she human?! Can't she even say a word of comfort?! Later, Song Qiyue learned that Li Qing's face could show other expressions, and she could offer comfort. After Song Qiyue was injured again in another high-risk mission and hospitalized, Li Qing looked at the chest wound that had nearly killed her, and the smile finally faded from her eyes, misting over. Song Qiyue said irritably, "What the hell are you crying for!" A crocodile's tears! Li Qing: "Why can't I cry?" Song Qiyue: "Did you ever love me to cry?" "Song Qiyue, in all those years past, I said 'I love you' three hundred and forty-eight times. Plus that answer at the breakup, three hundred and forty-nine times in total," Li Qing said. "Can't you, just this once, believe me?" ———————— [Deep and affectionate sly old fox x Fiery and prickly wild rose] - Pretend-poor rich second-generation young lady & Beautiful policewoman - Broken mirror reunited, HE - Childhood sweethearts who have known each other for a long time, deskmates in school, same age, no age gap - Story starts directly from the reunion