"Heh, then why don't you choose someone who is sincere to you, instead of being hung up on a woman who thinks you're poor?"
I turned on the bedside lamp and lit a cigarette in the dim light, but it didn't sober me up. So, it wasn't until I was almost finished with the cigarette that I replied, "She works in a nightclub..."
"Hahahahaha..."
"Why are you laughing like a 100-pound idiot?"
The other person inexplicably stopped replying, but I felt a little better. I'm sharing this not to get advice or anything like that; I don't need it. Wang Lei is gone. All those things that bothered me were just nonexistent, false questions. All I wanted was to vent. I didn't want to be a heartless man in front of Wang Lei, and her sincerity truly touched my heart. Otherwise, I wouldn't have given up Shanghai and traveled all the way to Dali.
...
It was already midnight, but I was finding it increasingly difficult to fall asleep. So I put on my coat and went to the platform where I often used to meditate. I hadn't been sitting there for long when Yang Sisi returned. She quietly opened the courtyard gate and tiptoed inside, but I saw her all of this...
I yelled at her, "What are you doing, coming back so late?!"
Startled, Yang Sisi pounded her chest repeatedly, then picked up a pebble from the flower bed and hurled it at me, yelling, "You scoundrel, are you trying to scare me to death?"
I dodged him and retorted, "If you weren't guilty, who could scare you like that... You better tell me honestly, what exactly did you do?... Do you really not respect my military-style management system? What the hell is that time?!"
"Military my foot! I came back so late because of the tasks you assigned me."
"Then why were you acting so suspiciously?"
"I was just worried about disturbing your rest, okay?"
"There's no one else in the entire inn except me."
Yang Sisi immediately straightened up and laughed contemptuously, "So you're the only single dog here."
"You talk as if you're not single."
“But I have friends… unlike you, holed up in the inn all by yourself, living a life worse than death!” Yang Sisi said as she came up the stairs to my side, and I then noticed that she was holding a folder in her hand.
She tossed the folder in front of me and said, "Today, I visited about ten photography studios. This is their client information for the next week. Please screen it and see which clients you'd like them to bring to our inn for a photoshoot... I told them that these photos are for promotional purposes, so we can't bring clients who aren't good-looking. They asked us to screen them first, and then we'll confirm with them."
"Are you always this assertive when negotiating with others?"
"Of course, I'm so beautiful, all those photographers are so charming, who wouldn't want to date me? So of course they have to lower their standards in front of me."
I was speechless, but she picked up the folder again and slapped me hard, saying, "How can you do this to me? I'm selling my body here!"
"I just told you to make normal contact, who told you to sell your body?"
"But they only agreed to this because I'm pretty...and several of them have asked me out to dinner, saying that if I don't agree, they won't either."
"You agreed to everything?"
"They all agreed... but I'm not stupid. I've decided to bring you along when I have dinner with them, so they won't try anything with me, and they'll understand that this is all a honey trap."
I assumed she was joking, so I didn't say anything more, but I took the folder from her. The moment I opened it, I felt a mix of amusement and exasperation, because she had made special notes on the information about every photography studio owner who had ill intentions towards her.
In that instant, I felt I had truly wronged her, and then a surge of urge to be kinder to her welled up within me…
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