A short story:
Illegitimate son of a wealthy family, exotic, flirtatious younger gong & county-town shopkeeper with PTSD, abstinent shou
Wen Fei & Ji Linwan
When Ji Linwan was a child, he gave away a plain white steamed bun. Once grown, that bun came back to repay him as a man with dark skin and abs as yellow as molten gold beneath the surface.
They say a person's name is a special kind of spell, holding an immense power of longing.
It was Wen Fei calling his name again and again that helped him escape the swamp of nightmares, time after time.
Wen Fei's mother spent her whole life showing that freedom matters more than life itself. The young man from a minority group trapped himself in a cage of guilt for more than a decade. His stepmother pushed him out of the capital, and he ended up exiled in a small county town. Then he met the person who had given him a plain white steamed bun when they were children. Good heavens, he fell in love at first sight. There couldn't be anyone else in the whole world who liked giving away steamed buns. He tried every trick in the book, shamelessly clinging to the other man, seducing him, and doing everything he could to win him over. In the end, he got the beauty he longed for.
He said, "Your mother must have loved you very much to give you that name."
He said, "This eagle named Asulu is free. The sky above the grasslands isn't the only sky."
This is a story that begins in winter, but they still have many winters ahead of them together.
Premise: Love can overcome any obstacle. This love is called redemption.
