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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
regret it! She’ll sooner than later regret it. We’ll have
a good show to see.”
Bear commented, “Now, they were passionately
in love. That was a temporary impulse. Xi Si will
soon wake up. There’s no chance she will marry
Soapy. Soapy will be sooner or later thrown into
prison. I’m sure he is a spy.”
We had become the center of gossip. They were
not only interested in talking about us, but they were
also waiting to see the result of our love. They said in
one loud voice, “The love between Xi Si and Soapy
will come to a tragic end!”
The fact that Xi Si and I had fallen in love with
each other was a head-on blow to Monkey King. At
first, he didn’t believe it. But when he saw that it was
a fact, he clammed up. He had obviously fallen into a
state of depression. He had been in low spirits. One
day he asked the school headmaster for a month’s
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