Me and Old Qin

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[Suffering is ordinary, and so is loss. Small acts of love and kindness are ordinary, too.

Family + friendship + love + growing up = the love story of an ordinary person who's not too shabby]

Blurb 1: Behind every tomboy is a dad who's a complete pain in the neck.

When I first moved in with Old Qin, he tricked me into thinking soy sauce soup was a celestial brew.

Later, he learned to make plain noodles. Then he learned to make Sichuan-style boiled fish, sweet and sour ribs, and even braised beef brisket.

Blurb 2: When Song Ye first met Qin Yan, he thought she was a silly girl who could be easily bought with a single piece of chocolate.

Many years later, Song Ye finally understood that Qin Yan was a wonderful girl he couldn't trade for all the gold and silver in the world.

Content warnings: 1. First-person narration

2. Everyday slice of life

[If you like family stories like this, please add my upcoming novel, Ten Letters to Mom, to your collection.]

[Blurb] This is the fifteenth day after I died. Mom laid my ashes to rest in a cemetery nestled between a mountain and a river.

My death came so suddenly that I didn't even get the chance to say a proper goodbye to Mom.

After taking care of the funeral, Mom said goodbye to Grandma and returned home alone. She opened my bedroom and found my unfinished math notes scattered across the desk, along with the English test paper we'd just gotten back.

I hadn't done well on that test. I ranked fifteenth in class, five places lower than last time.

I was scared, so I'd kept putting off showing Mom the paper for her signature. And on the fifteenth day after I died, Mom found it.

Mom held my test paper and didn't say a word.

I thought she would criticize me with her usual cold words, but this time, she didn't.

She stared at my test in silence for a long, long time. Then suddenly, she broke down in heart-wrenching sobs.

Just then, the doorbell rang.

"Delivery!"

It was a letter, the first one I had written to Mom after my death.

Theme: A father's love is like a mountain