Born Towards Warmth

Introduction to the work "Born to Warmth" After five years of marriage, Lin Wan thought she had an ordinary but stable home. It wasn't until she dug out a 280,000 online loan bill deep in the closet that she realized that her husband, Zhou Ming, had long been addicted to gambling and had dragged the family into an abyss. Debt collection calls were made to her work, and threatening text messages were sent to her daughter's kindergarten. The man who once said he would love her forever chose to run away when she needed support the most, leaving her and her five-year-old daughter Nian Nian in a mess. "Divorce." When the idea first came up, Lin Wan's hands were shaking. She moved her daughter into a damp rental house, worked as a nurse in a community hospital during the day, and worked part-time in a bookstore to sort books at night, using her meager income to support the lives of the two of them. Her neighbor Aunt Zhang would always leave a lamp for her when she came home late. Her colleague Li Juan would run around collecting divorce evidence for her. Even Chen Mo, the silent picture book writer in the bookstore, would hand her a band-aid when she was hit by a book and silently give her an umbrella when it rained. Some people advised her to "bear it for the sake of her children", and some said that "divorced women have a hard time", but Lin Wan watched her daughter holding her little hand tightly when she was awakened by a nightmare, and looked at herself in the mirror who was increasingly haggard but with firm eyes, and finally understood: the real reason for her children is to let her see how her mother can stand decently, instead of living in the mud. When Zhou Ming appeared again with gambling debts and tried to kidnap her with "father-daughter love", Lin Wan stood in front of her daughter and said in a low but clear voice: "We are no longer the same person." Later, Chen Mo's new picture book was published...