『Leaving Only One Waiting in Vain』
Gu Zhi lost his mother in a car accident when he was ten. When he was eighteen, his abusive father tumbled down the stairs while chasing after him as he ran away, suffering a cerebral hemorrhage and dying on the way to the hospital. From that day on, he inherited not only his father's house, but also the mountain of gambling debts his father left behind. Legally, a son is under no obligation to pay his father's debts, yet he insisted on paying back a thousand yuan every month. Even though the creditor never pressed him and often looked out for him, he refused all charity. "Nobody's money falls from the sky. What's owed has to be paid back in full." Over the past ten years, at his poorest, he would stretch a single steamed bun across three meals. And you were the only bright spot along his delivery route. Whenever he was unloading goods, you would just happen to pass by on your way home from school. From being too timid to take his candy, you eventually became close friends who talked about everything. He started working in truck logistics at twenty-one, when you were only eleven. Later, after that convenience store switched suppliers, you never saw him again. As for that childhood promise between you and him, he broke it.
The more sweat I pour, the more goods I haul, and the more pay I earn.