Volume 1 wedge 'Wow! He actually married that woman! How could he do this!' a woman cried. 'Xiao Qing, don't cry!' Another woman handed her a tissue and gently patted her back as if comforting a child. 'How can I not cry? He actually abandoned you!' 'Yes! He abandoned me, not you, and I
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"Wow! He actually married that woman! How could he do this!" a woman cried.
"Xiao Qing, don't cry!" Another woman handed her a tissue and gently patted her back as if comforting a child.
"How can I not cry? He actually abandoned you!"
"Yes! He abandoned me, not you, and I didn't even cry, so why are you crying?"
"Peiru, I know you're very sad, but don't keep it inside, it will make you feel terrible!" Xiaoqing comforted Du Peiru while holding back her tears.
"I'm really fine! I've never liked him, no, I should say I've never loved him, so I don't feel any heartache." Du Peiru was practically swearing an oath.
“How could that be! I get so sad every time my boyfriend dumps me! The longest I’ve ever dated was only six months, but you and Huimin have been dating for three years. How could you not be sad to be dumped by him? Don’t keep everything bottled up inside, or you’ll get depression. Most people with depression commit suicide!” Xiaoqing said, wiping away her tears with a tissue.
"Xiao Qing, I'm really fine! Don't worry about me, okay!"
"Nothing?! The more someone says nothing's wrong, the more trouble they're likely to have, like a drunk person saying they're not drunk..." Xiao Qing's rambling skills were astonishing; no wonder her boyfriends all said goodbye to her after less than two months. For the sake of her ears, Du Peiru had no choice but to sneak back to her room.
"Peiru, do you think I'm right?" Xiaoqing turned around and found that Du Peiru had already entered the room. Xiaoqing couldn't help but shake her head, thinking: Sigh! Peiru must have depression. No! I must save her! There are plenty of fish in the sea! Hmm! I heard that the fortune sticks at Baiyi Temple are very accurate. Tomorrow I'll go with her to draw a marriage fortune stick. As long as she knows that Wang Huimin is not her true love, she won't try to kill herself. Heh! Heh! With a fortune-telling expert like me, even a dead fortune stick can be interpreted as alive. Yes! That's what we'll do!
Xiao Qing and Du Peiru grew up together in an orphanage. Because Xiao Qing was particularly talkative, the other children didn't play with her. Only Du Peiru could tolerate her, and thus they became best friends. When they turned 16 and left the orphanage to live independently, they became each other's only family. As for Wang Huimin, Du Peiru met him at night school. He was eight years older than her; how could Du Peiru possibly fall in love with such an older man?
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"Pei-ru, hurry up! Let's go faster!"
"Xiao Qing, you've already drawn lots more than twenty times and had your fortune told more than thirty times, why are you still so enthusiastic?" Du Peiru said breathlessly.
“Pei Ru, you don’t know! The marriage fortune slips at Baiyi Nunnery are incredibly accurate! Little Chen said she came here a few years ago and drew a fortune slip that said ‘I will soon meet my ideal man,’ and sure enough, she met her husband the following year. Isn’t that amazing?”
"My God! A whole year can be called recent? You and Xiao Chen actually believed this place was very effective."
“Alas! Pei-ru, you don’t understand. As the saying goes, ‘One year in heaven is ten years on earth.’ A year is only two and a half hours in heaven. The gods have simply forgotten the time difference between heaven and earth.”
"I'm truly impressed by you! You can even make the dead seem alive!"
"That's the truth!"
Du Peiru decided to stop talking to Xiao Qing. She was currently experiencing oxygen deprivation, her breathing rate doubling. Du Peiru suspected that the reason the White Robe Nunnery hadn't been demolished by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution's "Eliminate the Four Olds" movement was because they were too weak to destroy it by the time they reached it. Thus, the nunnery remained, a source of "calamity" for humanity.
"Pei-ru, did you get a good fortune slip? Let's go get it interpreted! Mine is 168—'All the way to prosperity,' which is a good sign! What about yours?"
"Fourteen, in Cantonese it is 'seriously dead,' meaning definitely dead."
"Hmm... don't think like that, let's interpret the fortune first! It might be the best fortune you can get."
"14, 168, here, here!" Xiao Qing happily checked the numbers and hurriedly tore off the two small slips of paper.
"Let's look at yours first! 'Fate brings people together from a thousand miles away, crossing time and space to meet your soulmate.' Hmm... this should mean your true love is thousands of miles away. Wow! It could be an overseas Chinese or a student studying abroad, you're rich! The next sentence should be... Oh! Right! This fortune slip should say that once you get through this sad period of heartbreak, you will meet your true love!" Xiao Qing was interpreting the fortune slip for Du Peiru with the air of an expert. This was understandable; Xiao Qing had heard others interpret it more than 20 times, and she knew it by heart.
"What a load of rubbish! Even this fortune stick is against me! It's always the worst possible fortune!" Xiao Qing said, tearing it up without letting Du Peiru see it.
"Don't be angry! Getting angry will cause wrinkles!" Du Peiru comforted her.
"That's right! Don't be angry! Don't be angry! Pei-ru, let's stay here tonight! The environment here is so nice, it would be a shame not to enjoy it! We can also take some nice photos to take back! Let's stay! I'll go tell the host." Good heavens! Before Du Pei-ru could even answer her, she had already run off to find the host.
The mountain air was so fresh! The moon was so round and big! Under the moonlight, the mountain scenery was even more enchanting! Du Peiru couldn't resist the temptation and left her room. She walked along a path, admiring the beautiful scenery around her. Before she knew it, she had walked quite a distance! Suddenly, Du Peiru noticed a faint light ahead. She went to look, and when she looked down, she was horrified! She was standing on a cliff, below which lay a lake. The lake water reflected the moonlight, which was why Du Peiru saw the faint light. The lake under the moonlight looked hazy and beautiful! Just as Du Peiru was about to sit down and admire it, a cry of alarm came from behind her: "Don't do anything foolish, Peiru!" Hearing this, Du Peiru's heart skipped a beat, and she involuntarily leaned forward, falling off the cliff.
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It turned out that Xiao Qing was already awake when
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