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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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