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

Now that Great Smoker had gone away and

nobody would harass me, my life should have

become peaceful. But it was not so. I was not able to

calm down. An idea had been troubling me-- had I

put it in? Great Smoker had slept with me on the bed.

She had got a hold of me. We were nude…

I couldn’t eat well during the daytime and I

couldn’t sleep well at night. Soon a rumour spread. It

said that Great Smoker had been really wronged. She

was exiled to the Northwest only because of Soapy.

Soapy hugged and kissed her. He tarnished her

innocence. Soapy had ruined the second half of her

life. The worst thing that Soapy had done was that he

had raped her at the farewell party. She had gone to a

city that she did not want to go to. She left with tears

in her eyes. She would come back to get even with

Soapy! Gossip was a fearful weapon. People firmly

believed that it was I, Soapy, who had ruined Great

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