99 Promised Warmths, Half a Lifetime of Chill

99 Promised Warmths, Half a Lifetime of Chill Plot:

In high school, Lin Xiaoman found a cup of perfectly warm ginger tea in her desk every day—Jiang Ye, her deskmate, promised to give her 99 cups and be her “permanent heater” for life. But on the 99th day, Jiang Ye vanished without a trace, not even a goodbye note. Ten years later, Xiaoman, now a corporate lawyer, has grown used to numbing her exhaustion with iced Americano. She runs into Jiang Ye at her usual café—he’s now the owner who only sells cold drinks, with a scar on his finger from burning himself while making ginger tea for her back then. When the 99th cup of ginger tea is placed in front of her again, Jiang Ye finally reveals the truth: That day, he’d gone to a construction site to earn money for Xiaoman’s mother’s surgery fees and broke his leg. He disappeared because he didn’t want to be a burden. But now, Xiaoman’s heart has long turned to ice. Can this decade-late warmth thaw the chill she’s carried for half her life?