Revenge

Amanda’s coughing subsided in the face of Aaron Gu's sarcasm. "What are you doing here?" she blurted out.

Aaron Gu looked at her coldly and asked: "What? Is this your shop? Em?"

He was obviously very unhappy, and there was a chill in his tone.

But Amanda had never been afraid of Aaron Gu. She was never afraid of him when she was alive, and she will not be afraid of him after she died, either...

Died...

Oh, yeah, Amanda had died. So Aaron was not here for her; and sitting across him was not Amanda but the teenager girl, Mia, who had been fucking with him last night and this morning; and Aaron Gu was as cold and ruthless as he always had been, not even to his little girlfriend.

Night closed in; outside the peaceful snack bar was a noisy and bustling world they all came from; everything was still the same as yesterday, as years ago; Aaron Gu was sitting across her ordering his sweet jelly; but he was not that young sunshine boy any more and she was not Amanda; he could never see her face again, even if he wanted...

Amanda smiled self-mockingly, lowered her head again, and continued to sip at her bowl of spicy beancurd jelly.

"Enjoy." The chef served the bowl in person and greeted Aaron Gu politely.

Aaron Gu stirred his spoon in his bowl but he seemed reluctant to eat the jelly.

finished the bowl; Aaron Gu said out of blue as if he was asking her or someone else: “ Does the spicy beancurd jelly really so delicious?”

Amanda looked up at him. Aaron Gu stared at her bowl, a layer of red chili oil sticking on the smooth wall of her bowl; his

you might never like spicy beancurd jelly in your life, just like you

his lips was raised: "I remember the

sympathy to be detected. Was

her twenty thousand dollars so that she could

her patron...her welfare of the rest of her life may hinge

came to the response, she was as ruthless and ironic as she would have always been: “Mr. Gu! I am living the full of my life! I just feel like it today; none of you business at all.”

she took the money out of her bag and put it on the table, imitating Aaron Gu, raising her lips and saying, "Thank you, Mr.

upon Aaron Gu as she stood up and before he could react,

He stayed where he was after she left, feeling nothing about her generosity of buying the jelly for him.

jelly and drank it. It was so sweet that his tongue felt a bit bitter

The boss came to clean up the table after Amanda left. After a long time staring at the small bottle of chili oil, Aaron Gu stretched out his hand to open the lid and scoop out a large tablespoon of red pepper and oil and put them in the bowl; then he moved on to the bottle of vinegar and poured half bottle of it into his bowl. He stirred the bowl and blended the crimson of the

black, spicy in sour, fresh and delicious,

and tasted a sip of that very ferocious-looking beancurd jelly. He coughed vigorously and pulled the tissue on the table as his face glowed red. The chef was laughing at him saying: “Slow down, dear guest...Not everyone can stand that spicy taste."

would have hit the headline of the newspaper. Other female guests craned their necks to look at him and

cute! Aaron Gu who gave up on his bright future and stepped into the

why?”