short series

Year After Year, Cooking Smoke Lingers

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Lin Xiao, a successful urban professional, unexpectedly inherits her grandmother’s old house in a Jiangnan town. Planning to convert it into a high-end homestay for quick cash, she meets Shen Mo, the caretaker—the boy who once shared mooncakes with her under cooking smoke. Shen Mo has kept his promise to grandma, guarding the house for a decade and rejecting commercial changes. As they clash over the old property, secrets from the past, grandma’s unfulfilled wishes, and long-buried feelings surface slowly. It turns out “Year after year, cooking smoke lingers” is the tenderness in time and the reunion after missed encounters.

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