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.

Gu said out of blue as if he was asking her or someone else: “ Does the spicy beancurd jelly really so

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 brow

Amanda chuckled and said, "Everyone has his or her own taste. Like you, you might never like spicy beancurd jelly

Gu could hear it clearly. Finally, he lifted his eyes to look at her and the corner of his lips was raised: "I remember the Art school was in another direction. You came so far to eat a bowl of beancurd jelly. Well, you have a bunch of time, don’t you?

gloating with not a trace of sympathy to be detected. Was he

needed her; he even gave her twenty thousand dollars so that she could act

tree, her patron...her welfare of the rest of her life

would save your mother’s life. Amanda thought a lot within seconds about Mia, about the reality but when it came to the response, she was as ruthless and

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. Gu, for you

as she stood

after she left, feeling nothing about her generosity of

jelly and drank it. It was so

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

in sour, fresh and delicious, Amanda-exclusive

Aaron Gu frowned 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

jelly and was choking on the spicy pepper? It would have hit the headline of the newspaper. Other female guests craned their necks to look at him

gave up on

why?”