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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
her wildly. I felt like my blood was on fire. Then I
tried to untie her trousers. She struggled and pushed
me away and got angry.
“You don’t know love, Soapy!” she said.
Soapy was my nickname. I acquired it on the
first day I became a university student. That’s a long
story (see Gunners of Shenyang).
“Why do you say so?”
“Love is not just sex…” she replied.
I gave up unwillingly.
“We shouldn’t date anymore,” she continued.
“Why?”
“Have you heard the decree?”
“Yes, I have.”
“If we are discovered in love, we’ll get into
trouble.”
“Nobody knows we are in love.”
“Somebody suspects we are.”
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