Aoshika October

" “Think about it carefully, alright? Will you pay me or not?” Xiao Xingchen looked at the man in front of him and… well. He had to ask himself how he had ended in such an interesting situation. He was naked, sitting on a bed in a hotel with a slightly less naked young man in front of him (he was only wearing boxers, but only because he had already begun dressing himself).

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Xiao Xingchen accidentally ends up having sex with a sex worker. The initial confusion leads to the kind of friendship he never thought he would have: one with benefits. But with time he and Chengmei share more and more parts of their lives, so in the end, is this what any of them really want? Or can they have more?

My family would joke about her, her cynical personality, her laziness, the machismo she had inherited from her family which made her openly say things like "you have to tend to your brother cause you're a woman and he is a man". My brother may have a positive image of her and he will miss her, but my story is different.

She used to live with us when we were kids. When I was little, very little, I loved her, when I was 10 years old, I feared her and resented her. When I was 13 years old I despised her, when I was 18 years old I was indifferent towards her. When I reached my 24 years, I pittied her and she even inspired some tenderness in me.

I think all women in my family have guts of stone. In spanish it sounds better, "entrañas de pedernal" and we all inherited them from her. My mother, my aunt, my cousins, they are all merciless like she was. I dont know if I am, but if I am, it's because of her.