A Cure for Wanting

"Is this therapy," Pei Yunu asks quietly, "or is it something else?"

Dr. Luo Zhanyi has built his life on control. As a respected psychiatrist in 1920s Shanghai, he observes, diagnoses, and maintains a precise professional distance from every patient who walks into his office.

Then Pei Yunu arrives.

Brilliant, volatile, and grieving the loss of a lover whose death left more questions than answers, Yunu refuses the tidy frameworks Zhanyi relies on. He challenges every assumption, refuses to cooperate, and slowly dismantles the emotional barriers Zhanyi has spent a lifetime perfecting.

Their sessions should have ended when the therapy did.

But Shanghai is a city where power moves quietly through shadowed rooms and whispered alliances. When Yunu's art draws the attention of dangerous political interests, he suddenly needs protection-and the one person who understands him best becomes the man assigned to guard him.

Now forced into close proximity outside the safety of the consulting room, the lines between doctor and patient blur. What began as professional curiosity becomes something far more complicated: a dangerous intimacy neither of them can safely name.

Haunted by the memory of a lost lover, hunted by men who want to silence his work, and bound to a man who knows him too well, Yunu must decide whether trusting Zhanyi will save him-or destroy them both.

In a city glittering with ambition, secrets, and revolution, how close can two men stand to the truth before everything they've built begins to collapse?