Lin Beixing, a young educated youth from the city whose family had fallen on hard times, was sent to the Great Northern Wilderness. There, he witnessed the legendary “landlord’s little bastard” Lu Xiao arguing with a wild wolf, barehanded, over the philosophical question of “Are you leaving, or do I have to stab you to death?”
Lin Beixing: (inner monologue) Is it still not too late to run? Asking for a friend, and it’s urgent!
To stay alive, he decisively clung to the biggest... uh, thigh around.
Lu Xiao was quiet, fierce, and from a bad class background, but he was also handsome and good at everything: repairing kang beds, hunting, making furniture, and even crafting a harmonica by hand for him!
But why was this guy looking at him more and more like a wolf who had gone hungry for half its life and finally spotted some fatty pork?
Lin Beixing: “Comrade Lu Xiao, please rein in those dangerous thoughts. We’re supposed to have a pure revolutionary friendship!”
Lu Xiao: (silently handing over a freshly roasted rabbit leg, still sizzling with fat) “Sure. Pure. Eat up, then teach me to read.”
Lin Beixing: (gnawing on the rabbit leg) “...Sure, why not.”
Later, when Lu Xiao’s frail but sweet-talking younger brother and Lin Beixing’s clever little sister joined hands to become the village’s most powerful “big brother fan club”...
Younger brother/sister: “My brother is the best in the world!”
Everyone looked at Lu Xiao, who stood protectively in front of Lin Beixing with a gaze that could freeze a person to death, and at Lin Beixing, whom he spoiled so thoroughly he was nearly incapable of looking after himself. They silently screamed: Isn’t your “pure friendship” a little too clingy?!
