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

Big Wang had been pulling a long face. Once we

got out of the matrimonial agency, she went away

without saying anything, leaving me there stupefied.

I didn’t know how I went back to my dormitory.

Since then, nearly every day I wrote a letter to

her apologising for making an unforgivable mistake

and swearing to never make the same mistake any

more. In the meantime, I went to Big Wang’s best

friend’s home three times to beg her to keep the

secret for me. I begged her to persuade Big Wang to

forgive me. I swore again and again that I would

never make the same mistake again. Big Wang’s

friend was a kind woman. She smiled and consoled

me again and again. She said that she was Big

Wang’s best friend. They had been friends for more

than twenty years. She would by no means betray her

friend, and she also promised to persuade Big Wang

come back to me. She asked me to be patient and

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