A Shopkeeper's Sweet Affairs (Reborn)

That winter, heavy snow blanketed the mountain peaks.

They said the third daughter of the Jiang family, Jiang Zhi, had gone into the old forest to dig for ginseng and never come back out.

Her widowed mother cried herself blind and insisted on going into the mountains, but the clan members stopped her by force.

"The girl is probably beyond saving. Why drag an old woman into it for nothing?"

Chen Zhichun, an oil peddler, believed the rumor and spent the night tossing and turning.

At daybreak, he took the savings he had set aside to marry a wife, bought a thick sable coat, and went alone into the snowy depths of the mountains.

Outside the cave, the snowstorm raged. Inside, a bonfire burned.

The sable coat was thick enough to wrap around them both with room to spare. With only a single layer of clothing between them, they clung tightly to each other.

In the warm orange firelight, the girl's eyes were tightly shut, her whole body frozen stiff.

Chen Zhichun pressed his face against hers, inch by inch, breathed warm air onto her, and slowly fed her warm water mouth to mouth.

He wished he could give her every bit of warmth in his body.

Through wind and snow, I have come to take you home.

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Theme: You reap what you sow