Because my boyfriend's health is deteriorating, I had to quit my job to take care of his daily life and diet. But the ten-thousand-yuan special medicine per injection has left me mentally strained, always worrying about the future.

I fear that we will end up with nothing, that bit by bit, the money my boyfriend saved from his business will be eaten away. I dread the day when, unable to produce the money, I will have to watch the person I love leave.

Everyone carries a tragic story, at least the three sitting in the shop today do.

Shen Lu hopes that one day her younger siblings in the poor mountains of the northwest can continue their education and step into the big city.

Jiang Qiqi strives to complete her studies so she can repay her grandparents who raised her.

Becoming friends with Jiang Qiqi was also because I was the only one, besides her grandparents, who offered her warmth.

That morning when I arrived at the shop, I brought her breakfast, and she unexpectedly shed tears while eating. It was from that moment on that she considered me her best friend.

Jiang Qiqi was very young when her parents divorced and left her to be raised by her grandparents. She had parents, yet it was as if she didn't.

Her parents had started new families, had new children, and she became the unnecessary one.

Throughout her twenty-some years of growing up, her parents appeared very rarely. In fact, for as long as she could remember, she had never seen her own mother.

So, even though she excelled academically and got into a good university, the cost of education was something her grandparents couldn't afford. Helpless, this clean and innocent child also boarded this thieving ship.