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The Sweetest Taste of Life Is Mid-Autumn

share time: 2025-10-09 02:30:47

Food blogger Lin Xiaoman, swamped by work, had long forgotten the meaning of Mid-Autumn. Until she found an old mooncake mold among her grandma’s relics—the very one Grandma used to guard the old courtyard with, waiting for Grandpa to return before firing up the oven for her 「Returning Heart Cakes」. To fulfill Grandma’s last wish of 「leaving the cakes to someone who understands if I can’t wait for him」, Xiaoman followed the engraving on the mold to an old alley, where she met Gu Shi—who was also searching for the 「Returning Heart Cakes」 while watching over his grandpa’s teahouse. It turned out Gu’s grandpa was Grandpa’s comrade-in-arms, and the promise between the two families was hidden in the mooncake filling. When Xiaoman baked the first batch of mooncakes using Grandma’s recipe, amid the osmanthus fragrance of the old alley, she suddenly realized: the most profound flavor in life is not luxury, but someone kneading longing into dough and roasting waiting into the warmth of moonlight.

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