A childhood-friends romance between a doctor and a dessert shop owner, centered on everyday sweetness and affection: from bringing her milk in high school to making sure she gets her “special dessert” every single day as an adult. Even when he comes over to fix her light, he brings along a bouquet of her favorite chamomile.
In the morning light of Wutong Lane, two little rituals never change: just as Su Wan’s dessert shop fills with the aroma of croissants, Lin Chenxi’s warm milk appears at the counter right on time. In the drawer of his night-shift clinic room, there’s always a low-sugar taro roll she left for him. The box is covered in star stickers and labeled “A little prescription to perk you up.”
They were desk mates who sat side by side in high school, teenagers who shared an umbrella in a rainstorm and soaked half of each other’s shoulders, and promise-makers who wrote down “She wants to open a flower shop (later changed to a dessert shop)” and “He wants to be a doctor” on little scraps of paper. There are no earth-shattering twists, only sweetness hidden in the details: chamomile brought along while fixing a light, old notes from their youth discovered while sorting through keepsakes, a first-aid kit that arrives within ten minutes when she cuts her finger late at night, and the hand warmer he secretly slips into her hands when they sit together outside the shop each evening to watch the sunset.
Lin Chenxi says, “I knew in my second year of high school that my prescriptions would always have one sweet ingredient called ‘Su Wan,’ and that I wanted every dawn and dusk of my life to be spent with her.”
Su Wan smiles and hands him a freshly baked cookie. “Funny, the most important ingredient in my dessert recipes has always been you.”
This is a story that begins in the tender years of youth and lasts through every ordinary day together. It turns out the sweetest love isn’t a dramatic declaration, but hiding “I care about you” in every moment of everyday life.
