Love Across the Wall in the 1980s: He's in a Hurry, but I'm Not

[1980s #CommunalApartment #SecurityChief #SecretRomance #Brother'sBestFriend #PaperThinWalls #Affair]

On her first night back from Guangzhou, Xu Mengmeng slept with her brother's most uptight friend, the security chief.

Li Qingfeng was a veteran reconnaissance soldier and the iron-fisted, impartial security chief at Hongxing Factory. Every girl in the factory gave him a wide berth. He was a living demon.

Who could have guessed that this old-fashioned cadre, whose buttons were always fastened to the very top, would lose all reason over a single white shirt of hers?

On a stormy night, the bed creaked in their communal apartment building.

Before dawn the next morning, Li Qingfeng, eyes bloodshot, slapped the household registration booklet and all 2,400 yuan of his savings down in front of her. "As soon as it gets light, we're applying for permission to marry!"

But Xu Mengmeng smiled and pushed him away. "Chief Li, this is what they call Western-style free love. What do we need to get married for?"

She didn't want his sense of duty. She wanted him to break every rule for her.

But she didn't know that her brother, Shen Tenglong, had already laid down the law: anyone in the factory could date, but Li Qingfeng, that old stick-in-the-mud, was absolutely off-limits!

Worse still, Auntie Zhao heard a man and a woman tussling noisily on the second floor in the middle of the night. Furious, Shen Tenglong ordered Li Qingfeng to lead a team to catch the "hooligans."

Standing outside Room 205, Li Qingfeng stared at the closed iron door of Room 204 across the hall, his Adam's apple bobbing.

Catch hooligans?

Should he handcuff himself now, or climb through her window again tonight?

In a communal apartment building in the 1980s, the walls were unbelievably thin.

How long could they keep this secret romance hidden...