The 1980s Courtyard: The Tough Guy Spoils Me Rotten

The day a veteran moved into the courtyard compound, a cleaver nearly took his ear off.

He didn't even blink.

He practices boxing at four in the morning. The scars covering his body make people uneasy, and though he's missing part of a finger, he can repair the most intricate machine in the entire printing plant. When he says nothing, he's like a block of ice. But on the night Su Wantang is followed, he silently appears at the mouth of the alley.

Four women, four different intentions.

One offers him a handkerchief, one brings him hot soup, one secretly probes his past, and another would do anything to destroy everything he has.

Tian Guihua asks him through tears, “What does she have that I don't?”

He gives her just one answer: “I think of you as a comrade.”

Shen Manli smashes everything in the room. “Who does Gu Jianjun think he is!”

He doesn't know that he's already been targeted. An enemy from the battlefield has escaped prison, the truth behind an old case is about to emerge, and the web of interests behind the Shen family is tightening...

And he stands in front of them all, shielding Su Wantang behind him.

“Don't touch her.”

Three words, paid for with his life.

Years later, beneath the sunset in the courtyard compound, Su Wantang leans against his shoulder. “Are you happy?”

He lifts their daughter high above his head, and she giggles.

“Yeah.”

That man, who never knew how to say the right thing, spends a lifetime proving three words: I love you.