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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
by the school authority. This disgraceful experience
of mine had been recorded into my file. In China,
every person had a file. No matter where he went, it
was forever with him. No doubt, one of the school
leaders of the middle school had read my file and
revealed my romantic story to the cross-eyed teacher.
Just as a Chinese proverb goes, good news never
goes beyond the gate, while bad news spread far and
wide. The fact that I did it with a girl secretly was
without a doubt bad news. So, it spread quickly
through the school and I became well known
immediately. Chinese people consider it most
disgraceful to have illicit sex with a woman. It was
most immoral. The person who had illicit sex was
thought of as a hoodlum. The hoodlum would be cast
aside, discriminated against and ridiculed by people.
But it was a painful experience of mine. I was full of
tears and regret. I could never forget it.
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