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

“Soapy, I have had a heart to heart talk with you

for such a long a time. Do you think I have only

indulged myself in conversion with you? No! I

wanted to give you a chance to hug and kiss me! You

are not a man! Normally when a man and a woman

date in the darkness, the man would hug the woman

and kiss her wildly. However, you have no guts. You

make me disappointed! I don’t think you are a man!”

With that she went into the dormitory building in a

huff.

I regretted it to the extreme, but it was too late.

What she wished me to do secretly was just what I

had been eager to do but dared not to. After I

returned to my dormitory, I was too overjoyed to

sleep. I wanted to cheer for myself. Next day I wrote

a letter to her. I apologised for not making her happy.

I said she might have misunderstood me. I was

actually eager to hug and kiss her, but I was a coward

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