Chapter 3

“A Girl Named Dou Dou”

There was a beautiful girl in a few of Lijian’s classes. A girl named Dou Dou. She was unlike any girl Lijian had ever seen. Not that Lijian knew much about girls. Truthfully, Lijian never had a girlfriend and had never even touched a girl.

Back in his village, boys outnumbered girls by three to one, and most of the young women left town early to work in bigger cities like Nanchang, so even seeing an attractive twentysomething lady was rare. That, of course, changed when he arrived in Shanghai. And at his school, he was smitten by the numerous young beauties he’d see on a daily basis.

Especially that Dou Dou. She was beautiful as a movie star, with her porcelain body, white jade skin. Her opal eyes big as an anime cartoon. Her jet-black waves of hair trailing down to her shoulders. The heavens smiling on her flawless form as she’d wear the clingiest skirts, qipaos...

Mesmerized, he’d glance over at her, in the classroom ... How he loved the girl’s painted face, her makeup. Her heavy flicks of mascara, various shades of eye shadow. Her candy-red, pouty lips. Her pink-pink cheeks reminding him of candy. And oh, oh how he loved the sweetness of her scent, how she was perpetually perfumed ... He’d imagine her whole form, her whole body somehow made of sugar...