Qiang Nan found a little child and raised him so lovingly that people around them joked he was bringing up a wife.
When the child grew up, Qiang Nan became his wife.
He found the child at the entrance to an orphanage. It looked like he had only just been abandoned; his little cheeks were still warm.
Qiang Nan brought him home, box and all.
His parents hadn't given him a sibling, so he would just find one himself.
Eight-year-old Qiang Nan poked the child's cheek. "Will you be my little brother?"
The child was fast asleep and couldn't possibly answer. Irritated by the poking, he gave a little groan.
Qiang Nan thought, I'll take that as a yes.
Qiang Nan, Qiang Nan, traveling north and south.
Qiang Nan lay beside the child all night, pouting as he muttered, "How about I call you Qiang Bei?"
You go south, I'll go north. The grown-ups say the earth is round, so we'll never get separated.
Qiang Bei rolled over and rested his head on Qiang Nan's shoulder, letting out another little groan.
Qiang Nan held the child as he slept, and kept holding him for ten years.
The year Qiang Nan turned eighteen, he got into a university in the city.
Eleven-year-old Qiang Bei ran in from outside with Qiang Nan's acceptance letter, happy and sad at the same time.
He said, "I don't want big brother to leave me."
So Qiang Nan took him along.
Qiang Nan had never taken what people said when he was little seriously, until the day Qiang Bei became an adult, when he found himself pinned to the bed.
Qiang Bei's tears were burning hot, and the heat made Qiang Nan's heart ache, too.
It took him a whole night of softening up before he realized: he had never thought of Qiang Bei as his wife, but Qiang Bei had thought of him as his.
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Qiang Bei thinks he is the luckiest person in the world.
Because he has the best big brother in the world.
2025.11.28
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Theme: Be happy every day
