A Younger Man's Trial Romance

I.

An Ning really did go to Chongqing because he wanted to study hard.

At home, his parents nagged him and his older sister had a razor-sharp tongue. He chose to go off and shine on his own.

The day before he left, his sister uncharacteristically gave him a phone number and a WeChat ID, hinting that if anything happened to him in Chongqing, that person was family.

He wasn't naive enough to actually contact someone who might look just like his sister.

Then he had trouble communicating in Chongqing, landed in the ICU after a late-night snack, and had a whole host of problems of his own.

A kind stranger helped explain things, tirelessly took care of him in the hospital, and even saw him off to school.

He seemed to have fallen for this kind stranger.

But, oh no, the kind stranger turned out to be his sister's best friend.

II.

Xi Xiao is the kind of person who treats everyone with all her heart.

To put it bluntly, if she saw a dead dog by the roadside, she'd go home for a shovel, dig a hole to bury it, and even shed a few tears for it.

All she did was grab a bite to eat and help a visitor who couldn't speak the language communicate with the restaurant owner's auntie.

On a whim, she took them around for a bit.

She saw someone in need and helped look after them for a few days.

Finally, she made sure to see the whole thing through, all the way to the end.

But why couldn't she get this person to leave...

He even said he liked her.

OMG, but he's her friend's little brother!

*A short story I spent four days writing from morning to night, all for a passing flash of inspiration.

I worked hundreds of times harder on it than I do at my job.

Oh, right... I don't have a job...

Originally, I planned to write a sweet older-woman-younger-man romance, but as I went along, I added in a lot of elements from the anime I've watched lately.

Even if the books I read don't show up in my writing, at least the anime I watch made it in...

I'd really like to say more, but when I'm sitting at my computer, my mind always goes blank.

So that's it. The end.

Theme: Younger-man romance.