short series

Cooking Smoke and the Years We Shared

share time: 2025-11-01 00:30:13

Lin Wan gave up her white-collar job in the big city to keep her grandma's legacy, the "Old Stove" breakfast shop, only to run into Chen Mo—her first love who disappeared without a trace years ago. Now, Chen is the project manager in charge of the old town renovation, and the street where "Old Stove" sits is marked for demolition. Torn between her grandma's last wish, the warmth of the neighborhood, and the man she once loved deeply but left without a word, Lin Wan is stuck. But Chen's unusual actions start to unravel the truth: he secretly applies for intangible cultural heritage status for "Old Stove", fixes broken steamers for Lin late at night, and even slams the table at a shareholders' meeting to oppose forced demolition. It turns out, he left back then to raise money for grandma's medical treatment, but a misunderstanding kept him from explaining. When the cooking smoke rises again from the old street, can they reclaim the love they lost in the passing years?

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