Watching Reflections Bloom in Those Years

Zhan Feng came to teach at S University in C City out of spite toward his parents, where he met his student Miao Miao and the two began a teacher-student romance. In the late summer of 1998, C City was hit by the worst flood in a century. Zhan Feng suddenly left, and soon afterward his mother and fiancee came looking for Miao Miao. Devastated, Miao Miao set out to find Zhan Feng, but ran into danger along the way and was rescued by a construction worker named Tian Fengshou. By the time she returned to school, rumors were everywhere, and Miao Miao was expelled.

With nowhere else to go, Miao Miao was taken in by Tian Fengshou. She then discovered she was pregnant and married him.

Years later, Zhan Feng had built a successful career in B City, but he had never stopped thinking about Miao Miao. Around that same time, Miao Miao divorced her second husband and came to B City with her son, Tian Zhuangzhuang, to make a living. Tian Zhuangzhuang was determined to find his mother a partner and himself a dad, so he secretly went around looking for a husband for her.

Their story begins with one of Zhuangzhuang's attempts to find his mother a date.

I'm sorry, everyone. I've revised and cut this section back and forth, writing 200,000 characters, and I still haven't figured out how to handle it. So I'm taking a break for a while. I'll be able to post once I've gotten past this part.