Running a Corner Shop to Raise a Little Bitter Melon

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Can you make a lot of money running a little convenience store?

No, but it's enough for the two of them to live comfortably.

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Yu Cheng opened a little convenience store. It didn't make much, but it was enough to get by.

One day, he found a child outside his shop.

The child was still wearing a school uniform, soaked through by the rain and skinny as a rail. It was obvious he hadn't been eating properly.

Yu Cheng thought it over, then stepped over the threshold three times before finally bringing the filthy child inside.

"Eat." Yu Cheng set a bowl of noodles in front of him.

Yu Cheng thought the kid had simply run away from home. What was one meal, after all? But it turned out the boy had lost his father, his mother had just died, and his stepfather had thrown him out only the day before. He was a little bundle of misery.

Feng Sai dug 172 yuan and 8 mao out of a hidden pocket in his schoolbag. "I can pay rent."

"..." Yu Cheng turned around and cooked him another bowl of noodles, this time with three poached eggs.

After that, the little bundle of misery lived in the small room at the far west end and quietly grew up.

Someone asked, "Boss Yu, why are you raising a kid?"

Yu Cheng smiled, handed a packet of dried noodles to the customer, and gave Feng Sai a sausage. "How much can a growing boy eat?"

Yu Cheng thought of him as nothing more than a shop assistant who could help with the work. Instead, he paid for his food, clothes, tuition, and living expenses, supporting him from his second year of high school all the way through college.

Someone asked, "Boss Yu, are you raising yourself a wife?"

Yu Cheng smiled and didn't take it seriously.

Until one night, the boy came into his room under cover of darkness and confessed while he was asleep.

Yu Cheng: ...

You can never wake someone who's pretending to be asleep.

But you can wake him with a kiss.

A gentle gong who is exactly what he seems and a gentle shou who's cold on the outside but warm within

Reading guide:

1. The gong and shou are six years apart.

2. A slow, everyday romance with no melodrama.

3. Though both boys have had a hard life, the story won't spend a lot of time describing their past suffering. All that matters is that they find happiness.

4. This story isn't suitable for readers with a kk fetish. orz

Theme: Love can heal a life