At eighteen, Cheng Jin Nian found an abandoned baby in the snow. After discussing it with his boyfriend, Song Hao, they decided…
To raise him!
In the 1990s, same-sex relationships couldn’t be legally recognized, and people shunned them.
The two boys carried on their relationship in secret, on the verge of becoming long-distance.
Cheng Jin Nian was a smart and handsome prospective university student, about to leave for his studies in another province.
Song Hao—completely head over heels for Cheng Jin Nian—said,
“I’ll carry Cheng Song Song over there and find work. Our family of three won’t be separated.”
“…Why does he have my surname? Didn’t we agree on Song Cheng Cheng?”
Song Hao thought: Of course the child has to take my wife’s surname to tie down my wife’s heart!
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