“Comrade Qian Yuerong? Your man is in Room 206 at the Hongqi Hotel, making out with my wife!”
The caller was Liu Zhentang, the coal-mining tycoon of Liaocheng.
Qian Yuerong, an unemployed factory worker, froze for three seconds, then grabbed a frozen pear from the windowsill and rushed out. “Bring the evidence. Meet me at the scene in ten minutes!”
Before long, the whole city knew that the coal boss and the laid-off worker had formed an “Adulterous Spouses Alliance.”
Later, Liu Zhentang went bankrupt and his wife ran off, so he handed his three-year-old daughter Yaya to Qian Yuerong. “Eight hundred a month, including room and board.”
Qian Yuerong looked at the little bundle nestled in her arms, smelling of milk, then at her own cold, empty kitchen. “Fine, but it’ll cost extra.”
Snow fell silently over the coal town. Somehow, two broken families found an unexpected hint of spring amid the ice and snow…
With delicate brushstrokes, the reader is presented with pictures of an ordinary person who is working hard to live a hard life. As you read, you follow the characters as they run towards the future step by step. Like it very much! Come on, author! Keep writing better works.
How can I put it, from the bloody beginning, to the helpless make do, to the tender stay together. Very good, Yuerong, worth it.