short series

The Guest from the Past

share time: 2026-02-12 06:01:31

Lin Xiaoman runs "Wei Wan", a vintage café left by her late mother. Every day, while brewing osmanthus wine, she thinks of Cheng Mo—the quiet guest who used to sit by the window when she was 17, and who vanished without a trace for seven years. Until a rainy autumn night, a soaked Cheng Mo bursts in with an old wooden box, claiming to return her mother’s "leftover". Inside the box, besides her mother’s jade hairpin, there’s an unsent letter mentioning a "promise" from twenty years ago. And the old gramophone in the café—off-limits to everyone per her mother’s rule—holds a secret that ties Cheng Mo and her mother across time, unraveling a family mystery Xiaoman never knew existed...

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