
Dong Feng Chui You Sheng
冬风吹又生
Secretly loving, passionately living—a story of love and redemption set against the sweeping black soil.
"Yu Jiuqi, how long have we known each other?"
Every time Old Duan, a truck driver, returns from a haul, his first move isn't going home. Instead, carrying the exhaustion of a long and grueling journey, he slips into a bathhouse located in the city center. He has been bathing here for over twenty years. He watched as the owner's surname changed from Wen to Yu, the storefront expanded from one story to three, and the name evolved from "Old Wen's Bathhouse" to "Windsor Water Club"—yet he is still used to calling it the bathhouse.
On a weekday afternoon, it isn't too crowded. After a quick rinse, Old Duan heads over as usual to soak in the hot spring pool, which is heated to over forty degrees Celsius.
"It's been nearly twenty years, right?"
"Twenty years. Up until today, how many times have you dumped me? Even if I'm not good enough for you, you are pushing things way too far."