I looked at Dongzi’s slim and amiable small physique. I complained endlessly in my heart. Apparently, there was a big likelihood that Deng Long was after this little physique. I didn’t complete the mission. On the contrary, old Tan’s unintentional move enabled us who were behind bolt and bar1 to find a glean hope of survival. However, where’s a gain there must be also a loss. At the present, I’m putting Dongzi’s chrysanthemum at stake and it isn’t like there aren’t any rapes within gay circle of rich people who were relying on their fat wallets. What’s more, Dongzi is not as quick-witted as me. Should I use this thread or not2?
And on the other hand, I have honestly failed my professionalism tonight.
Arguably, if I couldn’t catch Deng Long, it was possible to begin with that Kang Zi Xian thread. Maybe I would be able to ferret out some informations. However, when I saw that insufferably arrogant cold face of his, the moment I opened my mouth, I have turned into a bristled chicken. To made me sit down, flirt with him, drink alcohol and cracking melon seeds was simply an impossible mission.
When I contemplated the reason, I summed them up: firstly, this Kang Zi Xian was good-looking, had a good body and, furthermore, he smelt good. And all of this violated my taboo. Mhm, it should be said it violated Fei Ge’s taboo.
Being friends with Fei Ge for ten years and being influenced by her hatred toward rich and beauties, in order to simply match up to her, I, Fang Liang Liang who was considered a moderate beauty, have forsaken outward beauty. When I encountered handsome guys, I scolded them for being ducks. When I encountered beauties, I cursed them for being chickens. Together, we have embarked on a hopeless journey of ‘pursuing inner beauty’.
I thought it was truly squandering a talent for Feig Ge to play volleyball. She should become a missionary who topples others’ belief.
Fei Ge was a noisy crow.
For many years, she constantly chattered into my ear: ‘Liang Liang, men that appear like gold and jade on outside are bound to be shabby inside. However, a troll has a heart of a lily. What? Didn’t you know that it was a belief that encouraged me to keep on living?……… What is a lily? Oh, two women being together is lily. Is it really true? Is it really really true? But what does it have to do with us…… are you afraid that others will say that we are lilies? Rubbish! We are obviously trolls. We merely have clean and honest hearts of lilies, that’s all.’
Fei Ge nagged for more than ten years. I have already wholeheartedly believed her. Therefore, I decided to scold that Kang Zi Xian: What are you tugging at? You are only a duck3.
The second reason was that he had actually bluntly threatened me in the depth of night. Who was I, Fang Liang Liang? A well-know godness of vengeance in the bureau! In other words, I was the so-called petty person. For this reason, I have decided to scold Kang Zi Xian once more: You duck. I curse you to have duck buttocks grow all over your body.
Following few hours, I had to, again, keep people company for an entertainment. Fortunately, I was lucky. I didn’t encounter any top-level monster. There were crafty customers, but at most they only punished me to drink a little wine. They could be considered to have a tender heart for the fair lady.
When time to get off work approached, I passed by the bar counter. I didn’t see Dongzi. I asked the lad who stood behind the bar counter. He said Dongzi got off from work one hour ago. Boss allowed.
Hearing this, I was anything but reassured. I madly rushed back to lobby for phone. Sure enough, Dongzi sent me message: I’m at Peninsula Shark Restaurant. He has began to take liberties.
I was so scared I was covered in cold sweat. I called Dongzi’s phone, but unexpectedly, it was turned off.
There was always a rule inside the bureau. We had to be available 24 hours a day. It was too odd. My heart was hanging in the midair. I didn’t even change my clothes. Amid sharp and delicate strange shouts of women, I draped over a thin coat and immediately rushed out of door. I even managed to hit mama-san, who just wanted to enter inside to demonstrate her imposingness.
My mind went blank. I totally couldn’t hear ‘Three character classic’ mama-san recited afterwards. I had only this thought in my head: Deng Long, if you dare to touch Dongzi’s little chrysanthemum, I, Fang Liang Liang, will simply chop your rotten cucumber!
Spring. All living things were being awaken. Beasts were lurking. And I have been thrown into the panic.
A long while later, I have finally fetched a car. Amidst my continuous urging to overtake other cars, the driver bestowed me several eye-rollings. After I have arrived to Peninsula Shark Restaurant and searched all over the place, people already left and teas were already cold. There was absolutely no shadow of Dongzi and Deng Long.
A perspiration oozed from my forehead. I ran till I was panting. I was still reluctant. I stretched my neck to look around once again. Yet, unexpectedly, I have seen a person I didn’t want to see —— Fu Chen.
I haven’t seen him for three months. Under his eyeglasses was still that gentle smile from the memories. I knew even without guessing that this kind of smile carried bits of spoiling. It warmed one’s heart, making you wish to go to mountain and burn incenses to thank Heavens for letting one meet the gentlest and the most perfect man in this world.
In fact, God is selling tea set4 in Taobao. How is it possible for him to be so kind-hearted?
Fu Chen seemed to be well. His smile was like first rays of morning sun. Yet, he was a stern perfectionist in the bones. As his girlfriend, you couldn’t be like this nor could you be like that. As a result, my friends told me it was simply a miracle for such a picky man like Fu Chen to be able to endure such an unruly woman like me.
According to Fei Ge, our heads must have been kicked by a donkey. And when we broke up, she indicated our heads that were kicked by donkey have finally recovered.
Therefore, when I was dumped by Fu Chen after a year, it was expected by everyone. Beside me, everyone was laughing.
The one who was laughing the most happily was naturally my little cousin Lin Wei Yi – exactly the one who was, at the present, happily sitting across with Fu Chen playing a role of perfect lovers and smiling like a camellia.
To be honest, my cousin didn’t look as good as me. What’s more, she was thin like a washboard. But fortunately, she had an unequalledly crude tomboy older cousin Fang Liang Liang. Having a rotten wood like me she appeared even more gentle. quiet and pleasant in contrast.
Since fifteen when I have decided to be a tomboy, the one who was the most happy was no one other then Wei Yi.
What made her even happier was when I broke up with Fu Chen half a year ago. Fu Chen, doctor Fu, who was used to coarse language, suddenly discovered that there was actually a little woman who although was thinner than daylily had a temper that could match to a sheep by his side. It was like when one was used to eat deep-fried breadstick was suddenly offered a fresh tasting congee. He would think this stuff was beneficial to his stomach and gradually he would become inseparable with it.
Wei Yi also put a great effort into it. She left pediatrics and used every possible way and connections to get herself to surgical department where Fu Chen stayed. Ancient people said, the one who was near water pavilion got first the moonlight5. Moreover, nothing in the world is difficult for the one who sets her mind. We Yi got Fu Chen with determined to win’s attitude and strength.
Are you asking me why do I know? It’s because after I broke up with Fu Chen, Wei Yi specially dropped in to thanks me. At that time, she and Fu Chen already exchanged flirting glances with each other. He was holding a scalpel during the surgery, she was wiping his sweat. Everything developed in the right direction. I could see Wei Yi’s happiness, although it was still in an arrogant manner. Originally, that day, if it was according to my unyielding personality from childhood, I would be unable to bear it and would have spouted at her: “You just picked what I didn’t want. What’s there to be pround of.” However, on that day I had very calmly made a sound of “Oh“. I wasn’t able to say any hurtful words because he was Fu Chen. He wasn’t a doll I and Wei Yi fought for in the childhood. He was the man whom I have loved deeply but haven’t properly cherished.
Wei Yi’s long crush came true. She prided herself being a main heroine in Taiwanese romance fiction. Just like a goal-keeper who defended to death its goalmouth, she defended that piece of hymen. At last, she guarded it till the end and heard the sound of victory whistle. There was a temporary spring sunshine and one was pround of it. One’s walk also carried a wind.
And I, who was in their eyes an arrogant supporting role with blind dog eyes, became a laughing stock in the mouth of relatives. I caught a good man, yet I let him escape. Fortunately, Weiyi was from our family. The good man in the end didn’t end up in the pocket of other family.
My aunt was always mean. Once she sticked out for her well-behaved daughter and critized me with a mockery, “It’s not our Wei Yi who pried open the corner6. Take a look at Wei Yi who is well-behaved and smart from childhood. If you want to blame, blame it for Liang Liang’s bad fate. Think about it. She already lost dad. Nobody even disciplines her. Which men could bear her temper? I wonder how come Xiao Fu took a fancy on her. It would be a surprise if she could firmly hold a man. She doesn’t have a good fortune to marry a rich husband.”
This speech was coincidentally heard by me who was outside the door. At that time I truly couldn’t swallow my anger. I directly pushed the door open, put on a false smile and said, “It seems that aunt is more and more capable. Being able to even calculate if my fate was good or not. After all is said and done, aunt’s fate is actually the best. If it wasn’t for having me, an elder cousin with bad fate, Wei Yi wouldn’t even meet a rich husband, right? Although my fate is not good, however, aunt shouldn’t forget to thank me.”
With this remark coming out, plus adding a clumsy drama of the cousins fighting over the same man, my relationship with aunt became very rigid. I haven’t gone over to her house to visit her for almost three months.
My mom knew about all of this. Her temper was even more explosive than mine. Yet, she firmly endured it. During the time when my mum became a widow, my uncle helped us a lot. It cannot be justified for him to be stuck in the middle now that he is old. Thus, I also dropped the subject.
Those two were just now affectionately speaking intimate words. It offended to my eyes, seeing it.
Almost at the same time, they saw me in tandem. Fu Chen’s smile became stiff. He stared at me in daze. Seeing him like that, Wei Yi took a glance at me, her complexion didn’t look well.
On the contrary, I was too busy to take into consideration the awkwardness. I was so worried that I was running around in circles. And the complexion of Fu Chen, who was not far away, changed. My experience told me, this perfectionist was again going to fuss. Whenever his eyes became sharp and his brows slightly knitted, it was certainly because his radar like eyes picked some faults on my body.
Without saying anything further, I turned and left. While walking, I dialed Dongzi’s phone number as if my life depended on it. He was still not picking up. My brain turned in lighting speed. Without turning my head, I run out of restaurant.
I was currently grabbing my hair at the spacious and empty shopping mall. It was truly odd that Dongzi, at such a crucial moment, had his phone turned off. Inside my mind emerged a tragic scene of Dongzi being violated, biting the corner of quilt. Aside, Deng Long who wiped himself clean after eating lit cigarette and wore a sated smile. Furthermore, a horrible thought like a thunder flashed through my mind. Deng guy played men for so many years. One didn’t know if he had carried some filthy diseases. Did he use sheath during the violation? My adorable Aidong should not have any relation or relationship with that not very adorable AIDs, right?
I couldn’t find answers to my questions. And if I don’t find them, maybe tomorrow these questions would turn into terrible reality.
Once again, I irritably pulled my hair. I leaned against the railing on the public square, forcing myself to calm down. Since I couldn’t find Dongzi, I had to find him through Deng Long. However, a failure like me, didn’t get hold of his personal phone number.
Suddenly, a good luck came and with it also a good idea. I indeed didn’t have the number but one person did.
Kang Zi Xian did!
Burnt with anxiety, I pulled out the phone and found out yesterday’s call history. Fortunately, I didn’t delete it. I dialed out.
I breathed nervously. The phone was connected. After a while, a voice with a very resonant feeling spoke up.
“Hello?” He hesitated for a moment, “It’s you?”
I reminded myself that at the present I was seeking a help from this lord. By all means, I musn’t hurl insults at him .
“He he. Brother Kang, I am Fang Liang Liang-ah. I have an urgent matter that needs your help.” The sound of ‘brother Kang’ made my hairs shake.
“Brother Kang?” He was silent for a moment on that side, his words carrying a sneer. “It seems that miss Fang indeed seeks help from me.”
“Big brother~~~~~” With a tremble, I continued with my tireless effort.
“Save it. I want to live for another two years. What’s the matter?”
Translator’s notes:
[1] Behind bolt and bar is an idiom meaning being found in difficult times
[2] In this context she’s is meaning using Dongzi’s chrysanthemum
[3] Duck is a Chinese slang for male prostitute
[4] Teaset has in Chinese the same sounding as word tragedy
[5] The one who was near water pavilion gets first the moonlight is a Chinese proverb meaning to enjoy the benefits of a favorable position
[6] Pry open the corner is a Chinese idiom meaning steal someone´s boyfriend/girlfriend, becoming a third person in a relationship
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