Madam Was Fooled Again Today

When I was 17 years old, I liked to go sketching in the northern suburbs, and painting stars all over the sky became my daily routine. At the age of 18, I saved someone's life, injured my hand, and freed myself from the shackles. When I was 20 years old, I met a man with stomachache and lied to me to run errands for him. He said it was the first time he saw me, but the cufflinks on his cuffs gave away the secret. The dark gold cufflinks moved my heart. The paranoid and cruel man also surrendered in front of the little girl one day, pretending to be a tiger and eating a pig without giving in. You are the light that I can only hope for. ——Lu Zhiqing