Chapter 337
It was rare for her not to be clingy in the morning because she also had to go out.
He finished cleaning first and saw her brushing her hair in front of the mirror. She was wearing a pale pink cheongsam with large purple, light pink and white roses on it.
He smiled and said, "It's a beautiful day today."
This is the new dress she made this year. Now, all her clothes are brightly colored. Back then, I thought he liked mature women. She was only 23, with a baby face, and her temperament was a little too innocent. So, she wore dark clothes and heavy makeup to appear more mature. Now, she can finally wear clothes that girls should wear.
She wore that leopard-print fur coat and went out with him one after the other.
A friend at the magazine told her about a used bookstore in an alley with a collection of exquisite postcards from over thirty years ago. She got off the bus at the alley's entrance. It was a difficult place to find. She walked along, asking for directions. She passed an alleyway and came upon several bloody corpses lying beneath a crumbling earthen wall. Their bodies were covered in festering ulcers and pus, their hair nearly gone. They looked like the skinned, stinking remains of some animal. Rats crawled all over the ground, adoring the rotting flesh and gnawing at it with frenzied excitement.
I heard someone passing by say, "Stay away, it's really dirty. It's really bad luck. Who is so wicked as to throw these five things in our direction?"
I heard two people behind me talking: "They are all dead."
"No. The one with some flesh was gone first, then the one that was humming, then there was a woman, and the other two were still humming."
"Even if he's not dead, the rats will eat him up soon."
At this time, a light snow began to fall. She looked at the road and continued walking forward.
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