My Dongguan Love Story

Zhang Xiaoqian's face was flushed, like two ripe apples. She had never felt so embarrassed in her life. There was another man beside her while she was urinating. And she had asked him to stay next to her.

After a while, Zhang Xiaoqian's somewhat mournful voice was heard: "Dazhuang, come and help me up."

Hearing her words, I turned around and saw Zhang Xiaoqian sitting on the ground. So I went over to help her up, letting her hold my arm with her right hand, and she limped along with her left leg. After only a few steps, she was panting heavily, feeling a sharp pain in her leg, and cold sweat was pouring down her forehead.

She was too tired to walk any further, and looking up at me somewhat apologetically, she said, "Dazhuang, I can't walk anymore, can you carry me?"

Seeing that she wasn't as arrogant as before, but instead asked sincerely, I knew she must have reached her breaking point, so I nodded, bent down, and squatted down to signal her to lie on top of me!

After carrying Zhang Xiaoqian for a while, her stomach started growling. She looked a little embarrassed and said, "Dazhuang, I'm hungry."

Listening to her words, I looked up and searched around in the woods. When I saw a coconut tree not far away, I put her down under the tree, rolled up my trousers, and prepared to climb up.

Seeing that I was going to climb such a high place, Zhang Xiaoqian was a little scared: "Dazhuang, it's too dangerous. If you fall from such a height..."

Looking at her worried face, I smiled and said:

"I've been climbing trees since I was a child. What kind of tree haven't I climbed? It's nothing."

As I was saying this, I hugged the coconut tree with both hands and kept shuffling my feet upwards. In no time, I reached the top of the coconut tree. Then I picked up the small knife on my back and chopped at it. After that, I heard a thud as the fruit fell.

After picking all eight coconuts from the tree, I grabbed the trunk and slowly slid down.

When Zhang Xiaoqian saw me come down, she looked at me with admiration in her eyes: "Dazhuang, you're so amazing. You can climb such a tall tree. I was so scared when I watched you climb up that my heart was in my throat."

As Zhang Xiaoqian spoke, she watched me crack open a coconut. After I cracked one open, I handed it to her. She licked her lips, drank all the coconut water, and then started eating the coconut meat.

After I finished eating, they asked me to open another one, but I didn't eat this one. Instead, I poured the coconut water into my hand and splashed it on my face.

I was displeased to see her using food to wash her face: "Xiaoqian, this coconut water is for drinking, it's not appropriate to use it to wash your face."

Zhang Xiaoqian listened to my words and gave an awkward smile: "That bald guy just licked my face, and I felt so disgusted by the smell. If I don't wash it off, my whole body will be itchy and I'll feel extremely uncomfortable."

I remembered the scene of that bald guy sticking out his thick lips to lick her face, and I immediately got goosebumps all over my body.

"Wash it, you must wash it!" I opened another coconut and handed it to her.

After eating, we took turns sleeping and keeping watch. The next day we continued our journey, but since we had no money, we couldn't take a car and had to walk towards the port.

Zhang Xiaoqian couldn't walk due to a leg injury, so I carried her on my back and followed the route the car had taken to get back. Sometimes when we got lost, we would ask passersby for directions.

When we got hungry, we picked some fruit, scavenged leftovers, and made do with dried fruit. After three arduous days of walking, we finally reached the dock. When we saw the cruise ship still docked there, our tired faces lit up.

Zhang Xiaoqian wrapped her arms around my neck, and upon seeing the cruise ship, she pointed at it excitedly and exclaimed, "The cruise ship is still here! The cruise ship is still here!"

As I carried her closer, I heard Zhang Peng's voice coming from the cruise ship: "I already told you, Xiaoqian isn't coming with us for now. I'm her boyfriend, don't you believe me?"

A deep voice replied, "As agreed, the ship is scheduled to depart at noon today, and it's not time yet."

Zhang Peng, disheartened by his words, said, "Fine, fine, there are still three hours left. You'll see by noon that waiting is pointless."

When Zhang Xiaoqian heard that Zhang Peng actually wanted the cruise ship to leave early, she became so angry that she started cursing into the ship:

"Zhang Peng! You bastard, why didn't you die in Hong Kong?"

Hearing Zhang Xiaoqian's voice, Zhang Peng was startled and sat up abruptly. He glanced at the captain in front of him with suspicion, then looked in the direction of the voice. He saw Dazhuang carrying Zhang Xiaoqian on his back, slowly walking up the boarding stairs onto the ship.

Zhang Peng was extremely surprised to see the two of them appear. A few days ago, when he escaped from Shanji's casino, he heard fighting sounds from outside and thought that Chen Dazhuang and Zhang Xiaoqian had been arrested.

He never expected to be here at this moment. Moreover, Xiaoqian's gaze was full of anger, which made his heart skip a beat.

Although he didn't love Zhang Xiaoqian, she was his ATM. Now that she was back, he was still hoping to continue spending her money.

So he smiled and ran towards Zhang Xiaoqian, reaching out to hug her, but Zhang Xiaoqian dodged him expressionlessly.

He believed that Zhang Xiaoqian was still angry with him, and that as long as he persisted in coaxing her as before, she would calm down.

He didn't notice the disgust on Zhang Xiaoqian's face and continued to fawn over her, "Xiaoqian, you're back? I was just thinking of having the captain quickly sail the cruise ship back to Shenzhen to get reinforcements to rescue you!"

Zhang Peng described his hasty rush back as an urgent trip to fetch reinforcements, which not only demonstrated his desire to save Xiaoqian but also explained his urgency in getting the cruise ship to set sail.

Having been betrayed by Zhang Peng, Zhang Xiaoqian was utterly disappointed in him and would never believe his lies again. Seeing his cowardly and shameless behavior now made her nauseous; she just wanted him to disappear from her world as quickly as possible.

Zhang Xiaoqian didn't want to see him anymore and said to me, "Dazhuang, I don't want to see him anymore. Hurry up and throw him off the boat."

When Zhang Peng heard Xiaoqian say she was going to throw him overboard, he panicked. He didn't have a pass; if he was abandoned, he was doomed. He immediately knelt on the ground and begged:

"Xiaoqian, I love you! Don't leave me down, don't leave me down."

As he spoke, he slapped his own face, saying, "Xiaoqian, I was wrong. I didn't mean to leave you behind, but those pheasants aren't human. If I didn't leave, they would have beaten me to death."

"Even if I leave, I can still find someone to rescue you, Xiaoqian."

Zhang Xiaoqian crossed her arms and looked at his pathetic kneeling on the ground, trying to argue. She was filled with mixed feelings. She didn't know how she could have fallen for Zhang Peng in the first place. This scumbag had no money, no good figure, and was utterly useless.

She suppressed her humiliation, turned her head away, and said to me, "Dazhuang, throw him down!"

I'd been annoyed with Zhang Peng for a while, so when I heard Zhang Xiaoqian's words, I walked over to him. Under Zhang Peng's terrified gaze, I grabbed his arm with one hand, lifted him up, walked to the boarding ladder, threw him overboard onto the shore, and then retracted the boarding ladder.

Zhang Peng fell to the ground, his elbow throbbing with pain. Ignoring the agony, he scrambled to his feet as soon as the boarding ladder was removed, desperately calling out to Zhang Xiaoqian, "Xiaoqian, don't leave me, Xiaoqian!"