My name is Xing Shang.
I am a businessman, and Huadiao is a loser.
Because Huadiao saved my life in the past, I have not been able to sell him cruelly. So I could only let him stay in my wine shop, eating and drinking for free and not doing his job properly, for seven or eight years.
Seven or eight years later, I became more and more stingy and loved money, while he became more and more reckless, so I hated him with all my teeth.
Huadiao always said: "One day, when I have eaten enough and drunk enough, I will leave."
I always ask angrily: "When do we have to wait until?"
He smiled intoxicatingly, but his eyes were a little sad. He only murmured and repeated those four words: "One day."
[Published in "Purple Years" magazine, November 2013, Page A]
①
Huadiao: "Xing Shang, if you keep peeking at me like this, I will misunderstand that you are in love with me."
Xingshang: "..."
②
Huadiao [laughs]: "As a demon slayer, but your life was saved by a demon in the end, don't you feel ashamed? Or are you so thick-skinned that you have forgotten how to write the word shame?"
Xing Shang [angry]: "Be careful, I'll accept you!"
Huadiao [disgusted face]: "Do you accept me as your husband? I'm sorry, my vision is a bit high, but your quality is a bit low."
③
Xingshang: "Huadiao, I want to marry you. Even if I become your eighteenth concubine, I will accept it. Just marry me. I'll pay for the betrothal gift. You won't have to pay for it. I'll buy the wedding wine, set off the firecrackers, and pay for the sedan chair. Is that all right?"
Huadiao: "As an exorcist, can't you have some dignity as an exorcist? By the way, are there any benefits to being your husband? For example, give me hundreds of thousands of taels of gold, or three to five mansions, etc."
④
Huadiao: "The rolling waters of the Yangtze River are passing eastward. Can the fairy give me a kiss?"
Xingshang: "..." [Kissing]
Intention: