Raising a Simpleminded Boy in the 1990s and Turning Him into a Tea Magnate

Xu Tingyu is the village's unwanted little fool. He never gets enough to eat or has warm clothes to wear, and he is always trying to win Liang Huaiqing over with worthless little trinkets.

Liang Huaiqing sees everything he does. It's a clumsy, lowbrow ploy, and he won't fall for it. He won't take in a little fool, and he certainly won't take him out of the village.

But on the day Liang Huaiqing is supposed to leave, many people see him pedaling hard on his old bicycle, with the little fool who cries at the drop of a hat sitting comfortably on the back seat as they leave the village together.

Liang Huaiqing says he never planned to raise him. He was only taking the little fool to the city to find a good family to adopt him.

The green tea market in Huaicheng is booming. A friend approaches Liang Huaiqing with a plan: the friend will put up the money, and Liang Huaiqing will do the work, and together they can build a thriving tea business.

Liang Huaiqing, who can't stand the tea business, sternly turns down his friend's offer. He swears he will never have anything to do with tea again, never process tea leaves, and never make a single cent from tea. He also asks his friend to find someone to adopt Xu Tingyu as soon as possible.

But the day after his friend brings him news of an adoption, he sees Liang Huaiqing at his tea garden, not only processing tea leaves at a furious pace, but also turning every green tea he handles into Huaicheng's top-selling product.

Liang Huaiqing says he never planned to go into the tea business. Xu Tingyu is in poor health and needs a lot of money, and he is only taking care of him until he recovers.

Years later, Liang Huaiqing is a wealthy tea merchant and the inheritor of one of the country's ten most famous teas. After giving an interview in a sharp suit, he goes home, gets a basin, and washes each of the rabbit plushies Xu Tingyu has been saving up for days, then hangs them outside by their ears to dry.

After a photo of him doing this gets out, a reporter asks, "I hear you dote on your partner. You'd just finished a busy day at work, and then went home and spent two hours washing his plushies."

Liang Huaiqing says he only indulges Xu Tingyu because he's eleven years younger. Washing the plushies was just something he happened to do, and he doesn't spoil him.

After he says this, the reporter spots a little white rabbit watch drawn on his wrist in black ink, peeking out from under his suit sleeve.

Reader's Guide:

1. The bottom is a mute little fool, but not a typical one. He's simply sweet and naive, and a little slow to react.

2. The story is mostly about everyday romance. It takes place in the 1990s, but neither the era nor the career storyline plays a major role.

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At twenty-six, Xiao Yang has had enough of the backstabbing at work. Fed up with the rat race, he escapes to a place far from the city.

There, he meets Yuanfan, who is beyond the ways of the world, a spirit born of the grasslands.

Yuanfan says he is a spirit of the grasslands and the guardian deity of this mountain.

He possesses the untamed nature of the grasslands. Xiao Yang wants to take him away, back to the city, but Yuanfan shakes his head and says he doesn't belong there. Even if he went back with Xiao Yang, his soul would return to the grasslands.

From that moment on, Xiao Yang knows that Yuanfan belongs neither here nor to him.

Yuanfan walks into the mountains. This time, Xiao Yang knows he won't turn back. One day, he will cross the vast Pali grasslands of Shigatse and return to Xiao Yang's side.

Xiao Yang watches over the place day and night, never straying far. When he hears a distant call, "Yuanfan, please come back to me," he answers it.

He says, "Don't cry, Xiao Yang. When the prayer flags dance again, I'll come back to your side."

Theme: Keep your heart turned toward the sun and build a better life.