Lin Xu’s chain of hotpot restaurants is located beside a university, and the shops are always packed with students in school uniforms. Then one day, he met a regular: Su Tang, the precious only daughter of a jewelry merchant. She showed up twice a week without fail, always ordering the spicy broth he cooked, and would call out in her soft, sweet voice, “Boss, another serving of beef tripe!”
He was twenty-nine, and she was twenty-three, five years apart.
She loved the heat and aroma of his cooking; he loved her sweet, girlish innocence. He loved the little flame in her eyes, one that wealth and privilege had never managed to extinguish, when she stepped into his life. She tucked strawberry candies into his thermos, and he blew on her shrimp paste to cool it down; she said, “Spicy hotpot is like the jianghu,” and he replied, “You’re sweeter than candy.”
On a snowy night, wrapped in his coat at the restaurant entrance, she stood with her nose red from the cold. “Boss Lin, I don’t think I just want to eat hotpot anymore.”
He lowered his head and brushed the snow from her shoulder. “Then… shall I cook for you for the rest of our lives?”
Some sweetness, starting with that first bowl of hot soup, simmers into a lifetime together.
Later, growing up in a home filled with her parents’ love, their daughter became an angel who knew how to love others too, and their story reached its perfect ending.
It's so beautiful, I really recommend it