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Summer vacation slipped by without my noticing. Xu Ni and I stopped meeting. When school started, in perfect unspoken agreement, she took my seat and I took hers. Just like before, no exchanges, always walking around each other. Only Zhou Wei was nervous. He asked me what I’d do if my grades slipped behind. I smirked. Who says Xu Ni has to be first in class? Does Xu Ni even want to be top? She didn’t. Xu Ni didn’t even know what she wanted anymore. She grew more and more…-
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When I delivered it to Xu Ni, she was behind the counter, wearing her wig and my clothes. Zhou Wei was beside her, lazily fiddling with the coffee machine. Every time he finished a step, he’d glance her way. When Xu Ni nodded obediently, a satisfied smile curled at Zhou Wei’s lips. I watched this scene for a long time before turning and leaving. Zhou Wei caught up with me at the bus stop. "Xu Si." He was out of breath. "I knew right away that wasn’t you." "Xu Ni’s suicide is…
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Xu Ni slowly removed the wig from her head and stood to go back to her bedroom. "Take off your makeup, change your clothes, come with me." Xu Ni stopped in her tracks, making no move forward. "I’ll wait ten minutes. When time’s up, I’m leaving." "Where are you taking me?" "Selling you off." Xu Ni was stunned for a moment. The way she looked at me stirred an odd sense of satisfaction in my heart. I tapped the table. "Hurry up." Xu Ni shivered, turned, and walked quickly…
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Xu Ni’s suicide was a mystery. No notes, no messages. Shen Fang tore apart their home, desperate for answers. Until the floorboard was lifted. Everyone froze. Scratched in awkward, twisted letters were words like hands choking the air: Save me, save me, save me. Xu Si. Save me. Why did Xu Ni want someone to save her? Why was my name written there? Shen Fang grabbed my neck, screaming hoarsely, "What did you do to Ni Ni?" "Did you hurt her?" "Why aren’t you dead…
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After being released from detention, Shen Fang called every tutor to make sure Xu Ni caught up on all missed classes. Then she rushed to the kitchen to prepare meals for Xu Ni. At first, she glared at me, ready to hit. I shook my phone. "Try me, and I’ll call the police again." Shen Fang was fuming. "Give Ni Ni back her phone." "No. Buy her a new one or she’ll never use one again." Shen Fang’s face turned red as she pulled Xu Ni aside to interrogate her. Xu Ni shook her head and said…
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So she does have emotions. I thought she was really some kind of unearthly ghost. I turned over and buried myself under the covers. When I said all that to Xu Ni, I wasn’t trying to antagonize her. This three-bedroom apartment just didn’t have my own room. I once did that cramped, dark study room. But when Xu Ni started piano lessons, and they needed to put that expensive piano in there, Shen Fang cleared out my room and enclosed part of the balcony with folding doors. That space was so tiny…
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Zhou Wei and I were a pair of sworn enemies, constantly trading nasty words and throwing punches, finally declaring, "Whoever doesn’t get a divorce is a dog." On the road to divorce, we used the vilest curses to damn each other. But just as the tanker truck came barreling towards us, he jerked the steering wheel and took the hit on his side. For that split second, he saved me. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the summer right after sophomore year. Zhou Wei was holding a bouquet and asked if…
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Epilogue
Two years swept by. Our daughter obtained her trial medicine at last. She placed it in my trembling hands. "Mom, give this to Dad. Don’t dismiss it again. If you won’t do it for him, do it for me." I swallowed my doubts. But when she was gone, I kept doing as I had always done building him a new memory. "Do you remember?" I said, voice light as I knitted, weaving stories. "You and Yulan studied together once. A single sweet potato, you split in halves. One bite hers, one bite yours." I…-
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The Prisoner of Time Chapter 9
Years later, life moved as if sleepwalking. One weekend, our daughter returned home. Bright and determined, she had gone into geriatric medical research. Alzheimer’s was one of her chosen studies. Her mentor, an expert in the field, had told her new drug trials were beginning. "Mom, when I get access to the trial, Dad will be one of the first patients," she promised, eyes fierce. That day, she placed a framed wedding portrait of Shen Weilin and Zhao Yulan in our living room. Their youth was…-
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The Prisoner of Time Chapter 8
Later, the truth revealed. My mother had drugged the soup. She had summoned Yan Ming, hoping to force him into a trap with me, to seal our futures together. But fate twisted. Yan Ming never came. It was Shen Weilin who walked through that door. So the scandal was born. I was on the floor, wrapped in shame, when my mother dragged me before Madam Shen to beg forgiveness. "Please, we seek no restitution. I will take my daughter and leave the Shen household." Madam Shen pressed her temples,…-
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