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Needle of Love: The CEO's Billion-Dollar Proposal

share time: 2025-12-30 00:33:48

At the peak of her career, female CEO Lin Wanqing is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Just as everyone abandons her, Gu Yang, a poor young man hospitalized in the same hospital, relieves her severe pain with a single needle using his family's secret acupuncture. It turns out Gu works odd jobs during the day and helps fellow patients with acupuncture at night to raise money for his mother's surgery. Lin witnesses his kindness: he gives his savings to more disadvantaged patients and almost misses his mother's treatment to save a stranger. After Gu cures her illness, Lin proposes with her billion-dollar fortune, but Gu rejects her due to their status gap—"I can't even afford a cup of milk tea without counting pennies; I don't deserve you." Determined to win him over, Lin quits her CEO job and moves into Gu's rental apartment to be his "caregiver": she calls burnt porridge "love-scented crispy porridge," lies about being a "professional nurse" when massaging his mother, and accompanies him to sell acupuncture patches at a stall. As they grow closer in their chaotic yet warm daily lives, Gu doesn't know his acupuncture holds a secret—twenty years ago, Lin's father saved his grandfather, and the technique was passed from his grandfather to the Lin family...

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