Summer's Sweet Fruit

A hardworking pastry chef with synesthesia VS a gentle, dependable otolaryngology intern

Sang Guo is 28, unmarried and childless, with no car or home. Now she's even quit her job.

Life after quitting hasn't been as carefree as she'd imagined. With her savings about to run out, she should probably find work first.

She has two options: return to the field she knows and begin another round of striving and cutthroat competition, or return to her home country and help out at her college best friend's pastry shop. The pay is meager, but at least she'd be doing something she loves.

While she's hesitating, she receives an invitation to a reunion from a kindergarten classmate she hasn't been in touch with for years.

Kindergarten... can you even have a class reunion for that?

Sang Guo stares at her phone screen and thinks of someone. A sweet taste immediately rises on the tip of her tongue.

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For Sang Guo, making pastries is the sexiest thing in the world!

Kneading dough by hand is like a long, passionate kiss.

The steam rising from freshly cooked raspberry jam is like a handsome young man's hair.

A madeleine is like a lover's gentle caress across her back.

When she bites into an almond cookie, it feels as if a pink ribbon is winding around her fingertips...

So what if she hasn't accomplished anything? She wants to make desserts so delicious they make people shiver.

She's not afraid of being laughed at or looked down on. It's just that every time she thinks of the person in her memories, she gets cold feet all over again.

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Later, Xia Xiaohao asks her, "Why do you like me?"

Sang Guo blinks. "When I think of you, I taste a rich, soft sweetness."

Xia Xiaohao: "Then why do you like making pastries?"

Sang Guo touches her chest. "When I think about pastries, my heart goes thump-thump."

Making pastries is like falling in love, and falling in love is like tasting pastries.

Sang Guo wants to hold on tightly to these two things that make her happy.

1. [Important] This story follows the grown-up child from the author's "Daddy-Boyfriend Romance and Parenting Stories" series. It has an independent plot and can be read on its own.

The "little one" is the male lead, Xia Xiaohao, who was raised by his uncle Xia Ye and Xia Ye's same-sex partner. *This story does not depict a same-sex romance.

2. The male and female leads are childhood sweethearts and each other's first love. They've cared about each other since they were children. Their romance is direct and sweet, without any twists and turns.

3. "Synesthesia" is more commonly used, but from a medical perspective the term is "synaesthesia": the senses affect one another. Some people associate specific colors with numbers, such as black for four and red for five; others may think Wednesday is indigo, and so on. Sang Guo's synesthesia mainly involves touch, taste, and smell affecting one another, so making pastries is a psychological and physical pleasure for her.

Theme: There are always rewards on the road to pursuing your dreams. No one is incapable of achieving anything.