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In 1990, at the Honggang Factory compound in Northeast China, Lin Xiaomei—a beloved accountant—was set to marry Wang Qiang, the deputy director’s son, until Chen Xiangdong, the returned educated youth who’d broken his arm saving her years ago, transferred back to repair machine tools. The once reckless boy was now a “weirdo” hiding in the workshop drawing blueprints, too nervous to even look her in the eye. But when layoffs hit and Wang Qiang forced her to ask her father for help saving his job, Lin secretly gave the only technical position to Chen. When exposed, Wang Qiang yelled at her in the workshop, calling her “foolish.” Chen suddenly grabbed her hand, his palm sweating: “I’ve drawn wedding house blueprints for three years—every window faces the梧桐 tree on your balcony.” Wind carried iron filings through the workshop, the compound’s loudspeaker still played *Yearning*, but their heartbeats were louder than the steel mill’s roar.
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