When she was 17 years old, she broke into the city with her local accent and ignorance. She met the same young girl in the kitchen of a restaurant filled with oil smoke. One is a country girl who has just arrived and can't even speak Mandarin fluently, and the other is an adopted daughter who lives in the care of others and is treated harshly by her adoptive parents but remains warm. In the smoky atmosphere of the kitchen, they shared the meat in the lunch box, gathered on the steps to learn the names of dishes during lunch break, and talked about their concerns in the shadow of the street lamp on the way to get off work. They became each other's most solid support in a strange city.
They secretly planned their future: they would open a small dessert shop after saving enough money, she would make mango pancakes, and she would make sparkling water. But this green promise could not withstand the burden of reality after all. The coercion of her adoptive parents, the arrangement of blind dates, and the binding of gifts left the obedient and sensible girl with no choice. Even though he fought hard, he could only compromise in the end, quit his job with unspoken concerns, and walked into the arranged life. The hugging and crying when parting became the heaviest footnote in youth.
The days passed quietly in longing and waiting. She slowly gained a foothold as a kitchen apprentice, and she finally found stability in her marriage from afar. A phone call five years later and the sentence "I opened a dessert shop" brought time together again. Under the sign of "Shining Dessert", the familiar taste of mango pancake hides the friendship that has never faded - some companionships do not have to be together day and night, and even if we cannot make some agreements together, as long as we see the other person live the way we want, it is the best ending of youth.
This is a female friendship that grows in the fireworks at the bottom. It is a youth narrative about redemption and regret, waiting and perfection. It records how two girls become the eternal light in each other's lives in the wave of fate.
Intention: first encounter and heartbeat