The year they first met,
she was thirteen, a primary school graduate.
He was twenty-three, a good-for-nothing in his family’s eyes.
When they met again,
she was nineteen, fresh out of high school.
He was twenty-nine, and his family had given up trying to get him married.
The fearless young woman called out, “Uncle, are you brave enough to date me? The kind of relationship that ends in marriage.”
He tossed away his cigarette. “Little girl, you should focus on your studies. My feelings are too heavy a burden for you.”
“Hmph, coward.”
Watching her walk away,
he wondered how someone who played the field could drag a lotus into the mud.
But the lotus had grown from the mud in the first place. What would happen if he pulled her back in?
And so Boss Gu began his long, long pursuit of Yaoyao.
