Love at first sight / Mutual healing / Everyday life spent seeing who will break the ice first
Avoidant attachment x guiding type [Younger man / Mutual pining / Four-year age gap]
A story about handing over your whole life because someone gave you a pack of tissues.
1. In the winter when he was twenty-six, Shen Yu was preparing to kill himself.
But on his way past a breakfast shop, he saw a young man crouched in the wind, tears streaming down his face as he took inventory. He couldn't bear to leave him there, so he offered him a pack of tissues.
And just like that, he handed over his whole life.
2. Here's a joke: Chen Shui has no family and no home, but he does have a breakfast shop.
And it was precisely because of that breakfast shop that Chen Shui later found himself with a whole life to call his own.
Chen Shui and Lu Yu are huddled together in a cramped, stuffy room. Outside, snow falls thick and fast, and the cold is bitter, but the two of them are sharing just one square electric blanket and grinning foolishly at each other.
People say winter is hard to endure and poverty wears you down.
But for Chen Shui, this winter only takes a piping-hot roasted sweet potato, warmed in Shen Yu's arms.
[Chen Shui's Notes on Raising "Fish":
1. Fish are fragile. They can drown, and they suffocate out of water.
2. Fish really like plum candies (I tried one once. It was sour and astringent, and I didn't like it).
3. Fish also really like tomatoes (these are genuinely tasty).
4. Fish like wontons best (I make him ten every time. Ten is a perfect number, and it's an auspicious sign. It can also help him put on a little more weight. Delicious).
10. Fish only has me, and I only have Fish.]
Reader's guide:
- An everyday romance with a bittersweet edge.
- It's not that they're so poor they have nothing but love. They're so poor all they have is each other, and both are doing everything they can to take good care of the other.
- They are each other's first love, and both are chaste in body and heart.
- Both are little sad cases.
- Because of childhood trauma, the recipient is a bit hot and cold with Chen Shui at first, but he grows over time.
Theme: Work hard at life and strive to build a business.
