The Wild Dog’s Tenderness

This book is currently being promoted. Please keep reading and send your votes my way. Thank you~ [Youthful campus romance + mutual healing + small-town fiction + happy ending] [Mad-dog boy × broken little ray of sunshine] Everyone says that the boy from the Cheng family in Qingshi Town is a mad dog. No one dares to get close to him. Until the transfer student from the city squats down in front of his stall and smiles. “Boss, a bowl of fried noodles, please.” Her smile is like sunshine, and everyone in town likes her. Only he knows how broken she is beneath her cheerful exterior. She pretends to be cheerful; he pretends everything is fine. They’re both putting on an act. He fixes cars by day and fries noodles by night. The chilblains on his hands crack, heal, then crack again. Every day, she smiles as she helps him pack up his stall. He tells her she doesn’t have to, but she insists. Neither of them ever said they liked the other. Yet she carefully applied medicine to each of his chilblains, and he saved up every last cent of her tuition. The day she got into college, she ran to his house with her acceptance letter. He had disappeared… The auto repair shop was closed, the noodle stall was gone, and not a trace of him remained in Qingshi Town. She searched the whole town. An elderly neighbor told her he’d left without a word. She crouched by the door and cried all night. Later, she accepted financial aid to attend college, became a lawyer, and rose to prominence at a top-tier law firm. But there was always an empty hole in her heart… Until one day, she saw the name of a game developer. At last, she had found the person she’d been searching for all these years. She stood before him. He still wore that same expression, as if he had nothing to say. She said, “Cheng Zhu, you owe me. It’s time to pay up.” His eyes reddened. “All right.”