The Kintsugi Master: A Terminally Ill Child Helps His Mom Turn Her Life Around and Crush Her Enemies
Five years ago, on a stormy night at a hotel, art student Yun Shu took pity on business tycoon Lu Hanchen after he was drugged. After one night together, she left behind only a piece of kintsugi-repaired porcelain she had crafted herself, then quietly disappeared with the child she had unexpectedly conceived.
When she was pregnant, relatives cheated her out of all her savings. She slept under bridges and worked three odd jobs to survive. Her hands were covered in scars from porcelain shards and hard labor, but in her darkest hour she happened upon a kintsugi master and learned the intangible art of “turning flaws into wonders.” On her own, she raised Lele, her son with an IQ over 140.
Fate had other plans: at five, Lele suddenly developed leukemia, and the five million yuan needed for surgery left her gasping under the strain. To save her son, Yun Shu took an antique she had poured her heart into restoring to auction, only to cross paths with Lu Hanchen, who had searched for her for years. The man stared at the little boy who looked exactly like him, his pupils contracting. “Woman, is this my child?”
Yun Shu turned with a cold laugh. “Mr. Lu, you can’t afford either my child or my skills.” Lele immediately pulled out a tablet and shot back with adorable ferocity: “Want to claim me? Pass my three tests first! A traditional Chinese medicine exam, a coding test, and a written test on how to win Mom back. Fail, and you’re out!”
From then on, the icy CEO embarked on a hellish quest to win her back: standing guard in the rain for seven days and nights, hauling bricks at a construction site for three months to atone, and hand-writing a hundred letters of apology, all to make up for the five years he had missed. But obstacles abounded: the prejudiced Old Master Lu publicly smashed her work, the malicious socialite Su Manni spread rumors to frame her, and business rival Gu Mingyuan was the real culprit who had contaminated her rented home years ago, causing Lele’s illness!
Yun Shu stood on her own throughout, refusing to depend on anyone. With her kintsugi skills, she secured international contracts worth tens of millions.
