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.

of blue as if he was asking her or someone

layer of red chili oil sticking on the smooth wall of her bowl; his brow slightly furrowed; he was obviously asking her.

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

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

to be detected. Was he

gave her twenty thousand dollars so that she could act as

Gu was a coin tree, her patron...her welfare of the

Mia, entertain him, please him, he would give you the money you most needed. He 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 ironic as she would have always been: “Mr. Gu!

took the money out of her bag and put it on the table, imitating Aaron Gu, raising her lips and saying,

she stood

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

it. It was so sweet that his tongue felt a bit

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

fresh and

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

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

"Oh my god, he is so cute! Aaron Gu who gave up on his bright future and stepped into the filthy business

“But why?”