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Crossing Two Worlds: My Quest to Get Steamed Buns for My Wife

share time: 2025-11-04 00:30:13

Lin Yang traveled almost the whole world to find food for his wife Su Xiao, who has a rare 'anorexia syndrome'—the only thing Su Xiao can swallow is the old-fashioned steamed buns made by Lin Yang's grandma when he was a kid. But those wheat-scented buns fermented with traditional yeast have long disappeared in modern times. One day, Lin Yang found his grandma's silver hairpin in an old drawer in the alley and accidentally activated a 'two-world portal'—he could go back to 1995, where his grandma was selling 10-cent steamed buns from a tricycle at the lane entrance, with steam wafting three streets away. To get buns for his wife, Lin Yang risked crossing every day, only to find brutal rules: he could only take 3 buns each time, the stay time shortened gradually, and every crossing made him forget a small memory about Su Xiao—from their first date spot to her birthday. When he got the old yeast recipe, Su Xiao's face in his memory started to blur... Even more shocking, Grandma met a 7-year-old little patient who always bought buns in 1995—that was young Su Xiao! It turns out fate tied them together twenty years ago?

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