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

When she had wept enough, she said, “I regret

it... I regret knowing you. You have made me suffer

far too much. I’ll see you in half a year at the

matrimonial agency! Don’t forget to get a

recommendation letter from your school!” And then

she went away.

I stood there with a look of consternation on my

face.

For quite some time I was in low spirits. One late

evening, I walked back to the dormitory. Since I was

in bad mood, I often walked between the school and

the dormitory in order to drive away my cares. When

I was walking under the bridge where I would walk

through every day, I heard a girl scream faintly,

“Help! Help!”

I ran towards the voice to the riverbank and saw,

on a piece of grass land, a man on top of a girl, trying

to rape her. The girl was struggling hard to protect

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