Just Friends

In Xie Ji’s otherwise smooth-sailing life, there was one thing she could never get over: her girlfriend had dumped her without warning.

She couldn’t understand it. She was good in every way, so why had her girlfriend left her?

Years later, she ran into her ex again, but the other woman didn’t mention the past at all.

Xie Ji: “Oh, I forgot.”

She couldn’t accept that. She did everything she could to get close to her difficult ex. She wasn’t going to fall for her again; she just wanted justice for her younger self.

Later, they rekindled their old feelings in bed. When she asked Fu Yin what their relationship was, Fu Yin said they were friends.

Ridiculous.

Friends sleep together?

And Fu Yin, wearing that otherworldly face, simply said, “Mm-hm.”

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When Fu Yin was eighteen, she overheard her girlfriend of barely any time, Xie Ji, telling someone, “I’m not really into someone like Fu Yin. She’s too dull. She’s just barely good enough as a friend.”

Ten years later, twenty-eight-year-old Xie Ji knelt in front of her, persistently asking, “What are we?”

Fu Yin pushed Xie Ji away and said lightly, “Friends, of course.”

◇ Rekindled love / switch couple

◇ A short story, just over 100,000 characters.

Theme: Live positively, remember the past, and be true to the future.