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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)

The third girl was a nurse and in her early

twenties. She looked gentle and quiet. She was much

younger than me. She always turned her left side to

me when I met her for the first time in the park. She

was fair in complexion with a slender and graceful

figure. She looked beautiful. I never thought that I

would be so lucky as to meet such a beautiful girl.

My heart couldn’t help but jump. But why did she

always show the left side of her face to me? I always

saw her left cheek. It was beautiful. When she stood,

she showed me her left cheek; when we sat on the

long chair facing the lake, she showed me her left

cheek too. I wasn’t suspicious of it at all. I was

careless. I was satisfied with her. I decided to win her

heart. I needed to give her a good impression. I had

to be honest and tell her everything about myself. So

I told her that I was not a good student when I was at

university. Then I told her the romantic story I had

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