When the first ray of morning sunlight floated into the bedroom with the sea breeze, Lin Jie awoke, accompanied by the intermittent, beautifully melodious sound of the violin.

The piece being played was so classic that Lin Jie immediately recognized it as "Butterfly Lovers"!

He rolled out of bed, changed into shorts, a T-shirt, and sneakers, and ran out of the small building!

Lele heard the commotion from Lin Jie, and ran out of Lin Miao's room, chasing after him!

Lin Jie reached the seaside beach, jogging along the shore towards the morning glow!

Meanwhile, Lele circled around Lin Jie, sometimes leaping ahead, sometimes trailing behind, and occasionally chasing waves, thoroughly enjoying himself.

Lin Jie then saw, at the edge of the beach, a woman in a long dress standing on the rock protruding from the sea, playing the violin.

The sea breeze blew gently, occasionally lifting the woman's long hair, and her soft skirt fluttered with the wind.

The brilliant multicolored glow around the woman blurred all the details, revealing only her silhouette, but because of this, it fully highlighted her exquisite S-shaped figure.

Accompanied by the heavenly beauty of the violin music, Lin Jie felt momentarily dazed, as if he was seeing the goddess of the sea.

He couldn't help but quicken his pace, running towards her.

As he approached, the woman stopped playing, holding her violin and gazing out at the distant sea.

Lin Jie noticed that the woman was wearing a long slip dress with small floral prints. From this angle, her profile was striking with a high nose bridge and slightly pouty lips — a perfect curve that could be called the profile of an angel.

Unfortunately, this woman with a devilish figure and an angelic face paid no attention to Lin Jie, showing no inclination to even glance back at him.

Lin Jie wasn't too disappointed, thinking perhaps the other side of her face had some birthmarks, leaving him with the most beautiful silhouette. It was a wonderful memory of this vacation.

He turned and started running back, and after more than a hundred meters, to his surprise, he found that Lele hadn't followed. Turning around, he saw the woman on the rock crouching and playing with Lele.

"Such a flirt!"

Lin Jie muttered to himself, turning around to continue running.

This time, he hadn't run a hundred meters before he heard the rushing sound of Lele and a girl's anxious voice calling out.

Lin Jie stopped, turned around, and saw an orange figure leaping up from the beach, pouncing directly into his arms.

He couldn't help but take a step or two backward to steady himself and hold Lele securely!

Nearing five months old, Lele already weighed fifteen pounds, and the sudden impact was quite strong.

Just as Lin Jie was about to scold him, he found that Lele's mouth was holding a strange, flesh-colored object!

Holding Lele with one hand, Lin Jie took the object out of its mouth with the other, realizing it was a finely made plastic mask, only covering the left half of a face, very thin and light, with fine vent holes.

Lin Jie looked up, only to see the woman in the long dress carrying her violin, walking briskly towards him, though she was covering her left face with her left hand.

As the distance closed, Lin Jie saw clearly that the exposed part of the woman's left face, not covered by her hand, had horrifying and twisted scars.

He immediately realized the woman had a disfigured left face.

A deep sense of regret and longing rose in Lin Jie's heart, like seeing the broken arm of Venus, always wanting to restore her broken arm!

The woman in the long dress stopped in front of Lin Jie, placed her violin gently by her leg, and reached out with her right hand, saying, "Give me the mask back, or I'll take my hand away and scare you to death!"

Her voice was clear and crisp, coupled with her nearly perfect right-side face; Lin Jie judged that her age should be quite young, between Lin Miao and An Kemeng, which made him feel more compassionate.

Lin Jie handed the mask back to her, saying, "Sorry, Lele was a bit too naughty."

The young woman in the long dress wasn't angry, nodded, and said, "It's nothing, I also have a Shiba Inu at home, and it likes to play with people too!"

Just as her hand was about to touch the mask, Lin Jie suddenly withdrew it and said, "Can I see the left side of your face?"

Seeing the anger starting to surface on the young woman's right face, Lin Jie hurriedly explained, "Don't misunderstand, I'm not curious, nor am I playing a prank! You might not believe me, but I'm actually a med student..."

"A Medical College student, a graduate student, actually!"

He forcibly changed the "doctor" he almost uttered to Medical College, seeing the woman's anger visibly subsiding, continuing to explain, "I also know a very skilled cosmetic surgeon, so I was thinking of taking a look at your face!"

The young woman in the long dress looked Lin Jie over several times and said, "Since you study medicine, you should have a big heart, so I'll take my hand away. Don't say I didn't warn you; I won't be responsible if you're frightened."

Lin Jie said confidently, "Go ahead and remove your hand, I've seen everything, I'm very brave."

The young woman in the long dress sneered slightly at the right corner of her mouth and slowly removed her left hand...

Lin Jie frowned and asked, "Have you undergone plastic surgery?"

"I had a plastic surgery once, mainly a skin graft, smoothing out scars, and injecting fillers, but the result was very poor. Later, there was an infection, and the fillers were removed again."

Curiosity flashed in the young woman's eyes, as she answered while examining Lin Jie closely.

She knew best the state of her left face, capable of making a child stop crying or scaring an adult into a cold sweat.

Yet, this young man before her was the first to see her left face for the first time without showing fear, but rather a face full of curiosity and exploration.

Lin Jie continued to observe.

This young woman's left half face was like the pitted surface of a seaside rock. What should have been a protruding cheek was unexpectedly sunken, with some skin almost directly plastered onto the jawbone.

Indeed, her half face gave a somewhat terrifying impression; this effect was mainly due to the perfect right face contrasted with the left!

Half angel, half demon, such shocking contrast produced such a startling effect.

After observing for some time, Lin Jie asked, "May I touch your left face?"

The young woman in the long dress paused momentarily before realizing that he was asking about the left face and not her whole face, nodded slightly, and said, "If you're not afraid, go ahead and touch it! But..."

"If you take the opportunity to touch my right face and harass me, I'll scratch a big mess on your face!"

Saying this, she stretched out her ten fingers in a threatening gesture.

Lin Jie, finding the young woman's disposition surprisingly candid, threw Lele onto the sand and reached out with his right hand to touch the left side of her face.

"Twisted muscles... completely damaged muscles here... cheekbone missing... hmm, this tendon is still intact..."

After about ten minutes, Lin Jie withdrew his hand, pondered, and said, "I'm saying this as a joke, but were you not envied for being too perfect and had sulfuric acid poured on you?"

Upon hearing this, the young woman covered her small mouth with surprise, and after a moment, spoke, "You're quite astute. I was indeed disfigured by sulfuric acid, but it was not an act of malice by someone, just an unexpected accident."

"You've seen and even touched my face, isn't it time to return the mask?"

Finally realizing, Lin Jie handed the mask back to her, smiling, "Meeting is fate, I truly can't bear the thought of someone so perfect bearing a half-ghoul face."

"The cosmetic surgeon I know can perform surgery to restore about eighty or ninety percent of your left face. If you trust me and are willing to give it a try, you can find me in Binhai City!"

"I'm Lin Jie from the Binhai University Medical School!"

The young woman in the long dress watched Lin Jie leave, with the adorable Shiba Inu bouncing around him, softly murmuring to herself, "Lin Jie? Why does this name sound so familiar?"

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