In the winter of 2003, five-year-old Su Wan was abandoned by her mother in front of a sesame cake stall. Lin Mo, an 18-year-old scavenger, gave her a home with a bowl of hot noodle soup.
He worked day and night to collect scraps for her to study; she rested on his arm and spent the warmest childhood in a drafty shack.
But when his biological mother came back with the opportunity to go abroad, Lin Mo smashed her job, acted like a villain, and forced her to leave with heart-wrenching words - "You will only drag me down."
Fifteen years later, Su Wan, who was already the president of a multinational pharmaceutical company in China, found the man who spent his youth for her in the reinforced concrete room.
He was covered in dirt and his eyes were averted, but she just held his rough hand: "Brother, it's my turn to support you."
At the same time, IT engineer Chen Shi hid his disabled mother and married a city girl Shen Qing because of many failed blind dates;
When the secret was revealed, he was waiting for the divorce agreement, but what he was waiting for was the words from his wife as she helped her mother-in-law into the house: "Mom, there is nothing wrong with our family."
Two stories about sacrifice and waiting are quietly intertwined in the north and south corners of the city.
There is no tearing, no calculation, just the courage of ordinary people in the name of love.
When two pairs of lovers become neighbors, the four souls understand:
The most touching love words in the world are not "I love you", but "I am with you".
Reader comments
The book is very beautiful, ordinary people, ordinary things, no mistress, no green tea, no calculations, but it touches people's hearts!
The world, things in the world, people in the world
The book is very beautiful, ordinary people, ordinary things, no mistress, no green tea, no calculations, but it touches people's hearts!
The world, things in the world, people in the world