The Man in the Cat Apron

The story is complete. A straightforward band manager * a kindergarten teacher with a first-love face and a story to tell The first gift Tang Li received after graduating was her four-year-old brother, Tang Jiajia, whom her parents gave her. He was a full eighteen years younger than her. It was bad enough that her parents had hidden his birth from her, but then the unreliable pair got the sudden urge to take a trip to Antarctica, packed up her little brother, and left him with her to look after for three months. Tang Li took a detour and enrolled him in a full-boarding kindergarten. On Monday morning, all the children cried and begged not to go to school. Under the threatening gaze of his older sister, Tang Jiajia waved without expression. "Goodbye, Nanny!" Tang Li: "...Call me Auntie!" On Friday afternoon, Tang Xiaoli, a corporate drone so busy she was spinning, got a call from a young male teacher with an unbelievably gorgeous voice. "Hello, Jiajia's mom. Jiajia says there's a good chance you'll forget to pick him up, so he asked me to remind you." Tang Li, a total voice-control fanatic: "...What a rare specimen." Cheng Lu: ? * Later, Tang Li finally saw Cheng Lu on the playground. A handsome young man, six feet tall, wearing an apron embroidered with cats, hopping about onstage and holding up his long, slender fingers to make bunny ears... He was so cute she wanted to pat him. That evening, for the first time, she bought Tang Jiajia a hamburger. "Does Teacher Cheng have a girlfriend?" Tang Jiajia ate his hamburger and gave his sister a sidelong, scornful look. "Teacher Cheng doesn't like grumpy women." Tang Li: … * Because Tang Jiajia's arms were too short to reach, Teacher Cheng Lu helped wipe him every time he used the toilet at kindergarten. He was very embarrassed, and after Teacher Cheng had helped wipe his bottom one time, he said earnestly, "Teacher Cheng, when I grow up, I'll wipe your bottom every day." Cheng Lu: "...There's no need for that. You're Teacher's good little darling, Teacher's little cutie. It's my job." Later on, Tang Jiajia once walked in on Teacher Cheng in his older sister's room, dancing the song "Good Bunny" for her. As he danced, he hugged her and said, "All right, don't be mad. You're my good little darling." Tang Jiajia's whole world collapsed in an instant. * Everyone who knew Cheng Lu knew he had the face of a first love, but deep down he was aloof, proud, and unruly. He could never be gentle and tender with anyone. Being destined to die alone was practically carved into his bones. One day, this unpredictable man suddenly threw himself into kindergarten teaching, becoming a warm and sweet male teacher. Along the way, he even got a girlfriend who made him sing cute songs and dance cute dances... Recommended upcoming novel: Love Me at Sunset A well-behaved little rabbit (not really) heroine * a taciturn, rugged male lead After spending twenty-five years as the perfect child everyone else's parents wished they had, Li Jiao suddenly learned that at fifty, like her grandmother and mother, she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair, waiting to die. That very night, she crossed half the planet and fled back to her hometown. Who cared about graduating from a prestigious school, having a high-paying job, or being set up with someone from a suitable family? Whoever wanted those things could have them. - At the village entrance, dogs barked and chickens clucked. Someone staggered along behind her, bottles clinking in a plastic bag. Li Jiao hurried along. Someone tugged at her suitcase from behind. She turned around. The man looked so dejected he could barely be bothered to open his eyes. Lazily, he said, "Snake." Then he walked past her. The bottles clinked even louder, like a lively banquet was starting. Li Jiao watched as a snake as thick as an arm swiftly slithered away from under his feet. - Cheng Bo had lived in this run-down ancient village for a year and three months. He had painted just one picture, but the empty liquor bottles could have circled the village a hundred times. Then one day, the landlord's daughter came home. The two of them fought over the last bottle of liquor at the village shop, the best spot to lie down and enjoy the breeze on the old opera stage, and the spot by the river where they were least likely to catch fish... On a dark and windy night, Li Jiao pinned Cheng Bo against the wall of the Li family ancestral hall. "Do you like me?" Cheng Bo raised his eyelids, his gaze burning. "Your ancestors are watching!" Li Jiao waved and knocked over the ancestral tablets. "Whatever I am, I inherited it from them, didn't I?" Once she had broadened her horizons, Li Jiao, who had spent her whole life as a well-behaved girl, discovered that every day was the first day of her life. # Love me at sunset, come back to life at sunrise. # If only life could run at double speed, then I could bring you right in front of me in an instant. # Because everyone but you is superfluous. Theme: Love helps people grow.