She's Still Scraping By Today

At work, you're looking at Xiong Mengmeng: the keyboard warrior, campus protector, head collector, contributor to drug-busting targets, the municipal bureau's resident handful, and a slightly chubby girl.

Bai Qing: "You're almost thirty, Auntie. You've gained twenty pounds since you got with me, and you still call yourself a slightly chubby girl? Have some conscience and stop fooling people, okay?"

Xiong Mengmeng: "The public security department called. They've got a new guy, and apparently he's really handsome."

Bai Qing: "You're eighteen, you're super skinny, and you'll always be cute =3="

After work, she's a poet.

Xiong Mengmeng: "If it benefits the nation, I'll live or die for it. I'll face fortune and misfortune alike without turning aside!" [She pushes up her black-rimmed glasses]

Bai Qing: "Then my goal is... +1... s?"

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A serious, sweet little story

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Dedicated to Lin Zexu, to all the unsung heroes on the front lines of drug enforcement, and to my motherland, which has endured the vicissitudes and hardships brought by opium.

June 26, 2019, the 180th anniversary of the destruction of opium at Humen

Three sixty-year cycles have quietly passed

And now, things are no longer as they once were