ANNOUNCEMENT
Cfensi is having a bookclub, with Guo Jingming’s Tiny Times as our first book! Practice your Chinese by reading the number one Chinese pop lit (and soon(?) to be movie and TV series) with us. Read more about it here.
Warning: This translation is as abridged as possible and cuts out almost all romance.
Read the original, Part 1, Part 2, Part 2.2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5.
Read Disclaimer here first!
Yi Yao looked down, and slowly gave back the crumpled pink bill back to the boy.
She picked up the broomstick, and walked to the classrooms upstairs.
She turned around and looked at the stranger’s face in the sunset. She said, “No matter you believe it or not, I really didn’t.”
Yi Yao turned again and hurried her steps upstairs. Behind came the boy’s low voice, “Hey, my name is Gu Senxin. I really didn’t give you money because …”
Yi Yao didn’t wait for him to finish. She turned, and kicked the trashcan in his direction.
The plastic trash can rolled down the stairs. Countless numbers of papers and plastic bags flew out, covering the entire stairwell. The boy moved to the side and avoided the trash can that was aimed at him.
When he looked back, there was no one left in the stairwell.
The light flooded in from the windows on top of the stairwell.
He stood a bit, then bent over, picked up the waste papers one by one, put back the trash can, and then put the waste back in the can.
With her eyes closed, Yi Yao can still imagine Tang Xiaomi’s beautiful and touching face in the eyes of her classmates as she blackened Yi Yao’s name under the pretense of a friend.
“She should really be pitied…” “She probably does this for an unspeakable reason. Maybe it’s her family…”
“She definitely doesn’t want to do this, neither …”
In a crowd of boys with smiles of all motives, Tang Xiaomi sketched her tragic story.
The classroom was empty. Everyone had gone home.
Yi Yao walked to her seat, and realized that her backpack was missing.
The empty drawer was open, like a mocking mouth.
Yi Yao lowered her head and silently cried. She raised her sleeves to wipe off the tears, and found her sleeves full of dust.
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