Copywriting: Li Xiao, driven bald by her landlord and her job, was delighted to receive her N+2 layoff. She struggled to suppress the corners of her mouth, which were curling wildly, and took the money and left. Li Xiao returned to the old house by the stream in a heavy rain. After her grandmother passed away, Li Xiao hadn't been back for nine years. Sweeping the dust off the wooden floor, its rustic grain revealed. Li Xiao walked barefoot on it, bouncing back and forth. Raising cats, turtles, chickens, and geese, planting vegetables, flowers, and fruit trees. Li Xiao happily pulled two eggs from the grass. She was met with a familiar, yet sullen face. "Ah, I forgot about this guy." Li Xiao was wrong to flirt with Qixing and then run away. But it was consensual. There's no need to act like she's going to settle scores later, right? Li Xiao saved a basket of eggs to compensate him for his youth. But Qixing was too greedy. He took the eggs and then demanded the money. --------------------------------- In spring, the grass lushed, and the wooden steps outside Li Xiao's house began to decay. Qixing repaired them piece by piece. In summer, the rain drenched Li Xiao's roof, leaving cracked tiles and crumbling walls. Qixing climbed up to pick tiles and then stepped onto the ladder to paint the walls. In autumn, the fruit trees fell, leaving Li Xiao's yard thick with dead branches and yellow leaves. Qixing swept the leaves into compost and picked the fruit for candied fruit. In winter, the snow fell silently, and the fruit trees in Li Xiao's yard needed to be kept warm. Qixing came back to tie coils of hemp rope. After all this work, Li Xiao asked, "Huh? Isn't it the village committee that takes care of it?" --------------------------------- Li Xiao: So, why does a tattooed delinquent boy grow up to be a gloomy, stay-at-home husband? Qixing: Because he was used and discarded, so he became a pervert. Tags: Reconciliation, Pastoral Life, Food, Sweet Story Protagonists: Li Xiao, Qixing Synopsis: A streamside cottage, seasonal delicacies, a married man and his cat Theme: Live well, love well

It is a story that unfolds not through dramatic events, but through the gentle rhythm of daily life: the meticulous preparation of a meal, the patient tending of a garden, the slow rekindling of a childhood love. It finds its poetry in the mundane.