A Stir on the Tip of the Tongue

Lin Wange is an orphan. On a breezy evening when she was six, her mother, whose face she could no longer remember, left her at the orphanage gate. After waiting for three or four hours, she was so hungry she finally crawled inside herself, and stayed there for over a decade. Lin Wange loves to sing. She sings when she's happy and when she's sad, while laughing and even while crying. Life is no fun without singing, so the headmaster simply named her Lin Wange. Lin Wange is a sophomore this year. She attends an average school and studies an average major, scraping by on her scholarship and the meager wages from her work-study job. Lin Wange has no girlfriend, because no girl wants to date a penniless loser who won't have anything to eat if he skips work for even one day. Of course, he has no boyfriend either, because Lin Wange knows full well that, so far, he isn't attracted to men. A hookup is out of the question, too: he can't afford the money for bars and hotel rooms, and he has a mental cleanliness obsession. So, Lin Wange is still a virgin: a handsome, delicate-looking virgin. Lin Wange never imagined that he might one day build a family and make a career for himself. These days, a man without a house or a car has little chance of finding a woman willing to entrust her life to him. So Lin Wange never imagined that one day he would marry Tang Jue and become Tang Doudou's