This isn't a wish-fulfillment story, and the protagonist isn't invincible!
It's simply the tearful story of an ordinary boy growing up...
At thirteen, Lin Chuan's family is struck by disaster. His mother develops kidney failure and is close to death.
Lin Chuan has a younger brother and a younger sister. His brother lost his sight after a childhood trauma.
Lin Chuan also has two fathers.
One is a county factory worker who cannot have children and died in a workplace accident several years ago.
His biological father was a man who joined the family as a live-in partner.
After helping bring two boys and a girl into the world, he secretly took all the family's money and left to marry someone else.
Faced with his biological father's coldness, Lin Chuan has no choice but to give up his studies and care for his younger siblings.
Young Lin Chuan makes the saying "an eldest brother is like a father" a reality, shouldering the weight of an entire family.
He does it to get his younger brother treatment and to support his younger sister's education.
Still a child himself, Lin Chuan heads south with others to work in factories, taking on more jobs than he can count.
Luckily, his small shoulders really do manage, step by step, to hold the family together...
