What You Peeled Off Were the Veins of the Tangerine?

Every time she ate a tangerine, she would tear the white veins cleanly, leaving no trace behind. Her boyfriend laughed at her for her obsessive-compulsive disorder, and she said, "You don't understand, this is bitter." Later, her boyfriend studied medicine and discovered that it was called Juluo, a traditional Chinese medicine that can unblock meridians and resolve phlegm. He told her that she was stunned for a moment and said, "My mother said that I had a cough when I was a child. She boiled orange water for me every day. I felt it was bitter, so I hated it." She called her mother and her mother said, "Yes, you found it bitter, so I picked out the orange water and secretly put it back." She cried - it turned out that what she peeled off was not the bitterness, but the love that her mother had hidden for twenty years.