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

Great Smoker could by no means give up

smoking. She wanted to cheat me. When I saw her

that Sunday morning, she was strolling along the

bank of the lake with a cigarette in her mouth. She

smoked with great relish! I got straight to the point.

“You didn’t give up smoking at all! You cheated

me and broke your promise. So far as I know, no

heavy smoker can give up smoking successfully. I

hate smoking. I have decided to break up with you!”

I was about to go away. She stopped me and got hold

of my arm. She said she was a kind girl. She would

look after me well and I would love her in the future.

I flared up and broke away from her. I said that I

could by no means fall in love with her. She laughed

and said, “You must marry me!”

“Why? Why must I marry you?”

“Because you had hugged me. So alive, my body

belongs to you; dead, I am your ghost!”

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