Touching Short Love Story One: I Want to See You Every Minute
Their meeting was purely coincidental. He worked as an export laborer on a farm on the outskirts of Yerevan, Armenia.
One day, he caught a severe cold and developed a high fever. His colleagues took him to the hospital for treatment. She happened to be on duty that day and smiled at him, saying, “Hello, I’m your nurse. If you need anything, just let me know.”
Her kindness made the lonely foreign young man feel warmth he hadn’t experienced since leaving his family. When he was discharged, they exchanged contact information and became friends.
Later, she enthusiastically invited him to her home. Her family was well-off; her father was the manager of an oil shipping company, and her mother was a surgeon.
When he first visited her home, her parents were cold towards him. To break the awkwardness, he offered to help her mother cook in the kitchen and then washed the dishes after dinner. Local men never did housework, so he quickly won her parents’ favor.
However, at that time, she thought her boyfriend should be tall, rich, and handsome, while he was just a foreign laborer.
One snowy night, she was moved by him. They had arranged to have dinner together, and she saw him from a distance, shivering in the cold and pacing back and forth outside the restaurant.
She walked up and asked him, distressed, why he didn’t wait inside. He smiled and said, “I wanted to see you a minute earlier; waiting inside would make me more anxious.”
After that, she and he walked down the aisle together. A year after their marriage, they had beautiful twin daughters. However, the warmth of the small family did not alleviate his homesickness. He tentatively asked her if she was willing to go back to his hometown with him.
To his surprise, she readily agreed, “I’ll follow you to the ends of the earth!”
He took her and their daughters on a plane back to China, then a train for several days and nights to Dalian, and finally a boat to Weihai.
Along the way, she was deeply fascinated by the bustling cities of China, marveling at its prosperity. But as they moved further away from the cities, she began to doubt the long journey and asked him, “We’ve been traveling for so long; why haven’t we arrived yet?”
He always said they were almost there, but the car ride never seemed to end until they arrived in a desolate place with a dilapidated farmhouse. She hadn’t expected his home to be in such a poor and remote area, and she felt hollow inside.
Entering the village, she saw mud and manure everywhere, with a foul smell and no place to step. Flies and insects swarmed around. The walls of her husband’s house were low and dark, the bed was hard, and the ceiling was covered with cobwebs. Having lived in the city, she found it hard to adapt.
However, since she had come with her beloved, how could she return to her parents in Armenia? Ultimately, she decided to stay. She cried while tidying up the house, knowing that life had hit rock bottom and this was a new beginning.
At first, she made many mistakes: using a rice cooker to wash clothes, confusing MSG with sugar, often putting MSG in porridge, steaming bread like baking bread, and burning pots without water. Besides household chores, she had to do farm work, and despite knowing nothing, she plowed the fields and planted rice.
To change their poor life, she and her husband tried raising chickens in greenhouses. They failed the first time, broke even the second, and made over 9,000 yuan the third time, bringing back all their hard-earned money.
By chance, she met some Russians. Seeing compatriots in a foreign country was heartwarming, so she went up to greet them and asked, “Why did you come to this place?”
They told her, “Our ship often docks at Shidao for repairs.”
After careful consideration, she rented a shop near the port and opened a café. Russian sailors frequently visited her café, finding a sense of home with no language barriers or cultural differences.
Gradually, the café’s business flourished. Thus, she and her love took root in China.
People said she and he had enacted a real-life version of “The Heavenly Match.” Sometimes, even he couldn’t help but ask her, “Why do you endure so much hardship with me?”
She replied, “This life, I just want your words, ‘I want to see you a minute earlier.’ Because of those words, I have something to tell you from my heart—I want to see you every minute.”
Love, perhaps, is enduring all the hardships of life just to see the other person every minute.
Thank you for reading! ” Sitestorys “
