Five years. One construction site. Eight-yuan lunch boxes — two meats, two veggies, free rice, extra eggs, never a price hike. She believed loyalty was a two-way street.
She was wrong. A网红 ""Lunch Box Beauty"" rolled in at five yuan a box, and the workers she'd fed for half a decade smashed her stall and ran her out the same day.
She rebuilt — a home-style restaurant, busier than ever. The workers? No cheap lunches, no remorse. They accused her of killing a coworker, extorted her with grieving relatives. Then, when it still wasn't enough, they kidnapped her daughter.
Every last one of them went to prison. And she learned the lesson they never could: kindness thrown at takers isn't kindness — it's bait.
