April, 1950

Widow Xu Hehua picked up a frail, skin-and-bones eight-year-old girl in the back mountains.

Xu Hehua was illiterate. Since the peach blossoms behind her house were in full bloom, she simply named the girl Taohua (Peach Blossom).

The neighbor, Doctor Cao, was an educated man. He scoffed at the vulgar name, saying, “It’s the end of spring in April—call her Wanchun (Late Spring) instead.”

Xu Hehua always admired educated people and was quick to seize an opportunity. Using this small favor of a name as leverage, she shamelessly sent her adopted daughter to study medicine under Doctor Cao.

A few years later, she even managed to reel in the Cao family’s only promising son as her daughter’s husband-to-be.

Now that was ability.

Xu Wanchun had originally been a clinical medical student, straight through bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate, plus residency training.

After years of hardship, she had finally become a resident physician—only to die in an accident and wake up in the year 1950.

She had become a parentless orphan, abandoned by her uncle as a “money-losing burden.”

Looking at her bean-sprout-like body and remembering that economic reforms were still thirty years away…

After ten grueling years in modern medicine… she wanted to cry.

Fortunately, Heaven did not shut every door. Her adoptive mother truly loved her.

Schooling, apprenticeship, food and clothing—everything was arranged perfectly.

Since that was the case… sitting another college entrance exam wasn’t impossible.

As for the so-called fiancé?

Not important.

Cao Jingliang had joined the revolution at sixteen.

In the second year away from home, his parents wrote to him: he now had a little junior sister.

Grateful, he thought of her as someone fulfilling filial duty in his stead.

In the seventh year, his parents wrote again: his little junior sister was now his fiancée.

Cao Jingliang laughed and shook his head. He didn’t take it seriously—a fifteen-year-old girl? Impossible.

By the fourteenth year, his fiancée appeared at the military hospital holding his parents’ letters—now grown, now his colleague.

When the bright-eyed young woman sweetly called him “Senior Brother,” the always composed and dignified Director Cao… had his handsome face turn red under his white coat.

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