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.

as she almost finished the bowl; Aaron Gu said out of blue as if he was asking her or someone else: “ Does

Gu stared at her bowl, a layer of red chili oil sticking on the smooth wall of her bowl; his brow slightly

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

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

gloating with not a trace of sympathy to be detected. Was he expecting her affirmative answer? Did he long to see her

gave her twenty thousand dollars so that

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

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 ironic as she would have always been: “Mr. Gu! I am living the full of my life! I just feel

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

tall and slim; she looked down upon Aaron Gu as she stood up and before

was after she left, feeling nothing about her

it. It was so sweet

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

spicy in sour, fresh and

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

their necks to look at him and some took out the cell phone to creepshot him; some even exclaimed: “Ya, Mr. Gu...who had been a lecturer in our school; he was so

he is so cute! Aaron Gu who gave up on his bright future and

why?”