Daily Life in Xunlu Town

[A heartwarming slice-of-life story about running a business]

One drunken night, Chu Jiahe slept with the person she had secretly loved, who had just reappeared in her life after a long separation.

The day she found out she was pregnant, a voice from the System rang out.

[Beep! Important supporting characters detected: the “chubby twin girls” and their cannon-fodder mother. Key characters cannot be erased.]

Chu Jiahe looked at the tiny specks on the ultrasound: Chubby twin girls?

Then she looked at her bewildered reflection in the mirror: Cannon-fodder mom?

Under the force of circumstances, the twins were born. According to the original story, she would take the children to find the male lead, Sheng Tu, the man she had spent that one night with and secretly loved, in order to climb the social ladder. She would happily serve as a stumbling block in the male and female leads’ tortured romance, only to die miserably in the end.

To avoid that tragic fate, Chu Jiahe picked up the two chubby girls and ran, heading to the countryside to stay with her mother.

…

Two years later.

The scenery in Xunlu Town was as picturesque as ever, and visitors drawn by its reputation flocked to the guesthouse. The young proprietress and her two chubby little girls were its best advertisement.

The world could be as chaotic as it liked. It had nothing to do with Chu Jiahe.

She only cared about preparing three meals a day, watching the seasons turn, and seeing the two little dumplings grow bigger by the day as they ran around calling her Mom.

When he was seventeen, Sheng Tu came to stay in Xunlu with some older relatives. The young master from a prestigious family had no interest in anything in the village. The only things that left an impression on him were the aroma of food drifting from the little house next door, and the girl who smiled whenever she saw him.

That day, she held out a plate of stir-fried beef and asked slyly, “Hey, can you handle spicy food?”

Sheng Tu stared at the bright red chilies, expressionless, though the aroma was tempting.

A minute later

The scorching heat spread from his tongue, and Sheng Tu felt as if he were meeting God.

The girl laughed so hard she doubled over. Her crescent-shaped eyes, along with that lethal dose of spice, stayed in his mind.

So even ten years later, though he was deep in a hazy drunken stupor, he recognized those eyes at once.

But when morning came, the space beside him was empty. Another woman was crying in a corner, seemingly telling Sheng Tu that last night’s recklessness had been a mistake.

It wasn’t until two years later that he set foot in the picturesque little town again.

At sunset, two unsteady little girls bumped into his legs.

“Who are you?” one asked with a wide smile, boldly looking him over.

“Mommy QAQ… Boohoo.” The other sobbed and staggered back home.

A woman’s laughter came from not far away. “Manman, Tiantian, don’t run off!”

Heartwarming daily life + family squabbles + raising kids + a slow-burn romance and marriage

Theme: Work hard to create a beautiful life