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

early to say so. I had become the center of people’s

gossip again.

Great Smoker every now and then would come

to our school to harass me. This was her and

Elephant’s tactics. They were trying to increase the

pressure. She had a glib tongue. She would talk

endlessly. I was slow of tongue and clumsy of speech.

So when she came to harass me, the only thing I

could do was stare at her and not say anything. So

my tactic was to run away and avoid her.

Once I was reading an English book in my office

and she came in. I wanted to run away but she

blocked the way. I couldn’t escape. She got a hold of

one of my arms. I tried to break away from her, but

she held it tightly and didn’t let me go. She said I had

already hugged and kissed her and that I had to

marry her. She cried her eyes out while condemning

me. She said I was degenerate and that I had no

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