The story presented here is a fiction one may find familiar in the late 1970s and the 80s. The author reserves his copy right to not allow trans posting, publishing, or any other uses for commercial purposes without permission of the author.

A Love Story (9)

Time flied again, a semester was about to end. Yang had missed Qiu so much. But with a busy schedule for studies, research and teaching, plus all the hassles dealing with authorities on top of that, Yang hardly had time to even think too much about their future, not to mention a visit to Qiu. He promised himself that he would go to see Qiu when the semester is over. Qiu on the other hand had secretly visited the school and Yang, but only standing far away from Yang with tears and heart ache to watch him during her visit. She missed him so much, but couldn’t dare to rush into his arm to hug him and kiss him for she was so afraid that would put Yang in even worse position.

There was finally a meeting, extended to members outside of the Party general committee, called by the Party general committee of the university to discuss and to vote for Yang’s future. With voices from the academic communities and the fact that Yang married Jia when he was technically admitted to his graduate program, Yang was issued a disciplinary warning without being sent off. It was a triumph for people who supported Yang. Even though felt being insulted, Yang decided to take it anyways to finally have peace.

The peace didn’t last long before Yang got a civil court order to report for a family violence and women abuse case against him by Jia.  He answered the service order and filed a petition for divorce finally. But he had no idea that lot of people were in the rural community Qiu was at. The court staff members, as requested by the plaintiff, were there to gather evidence that if Yang committed adultery with Qiu causing mental and psychological damage to Jia. Jia’s parents were also there trying to persuade Qiu to collaborate with them to testify against Yang, with a threat that they would put her in the court as adultery accomplice otherwise.

Qiu was in the center of storm again, with much serious accusation this time comparing to just rumours a few months back. It’s only a small town. Qiu and her family’s reputation were at stake. Qiu’s family couldn’t take it anymore. So the family asked her to admit nothing, and asked her to choose one out of several guys who were in the pursuit of her to get married. It happened that another teacher of her, who’ had been Yang’s colleague and been loving and helping Qiu all these time, was helping Qiu to cope with the situation. Qiu’s family somehow implied that they want him to propose to Qiu, and he did. Qiu at the beginning, didn’t even want to talk and think about it. She loved Yang so much that she’d rather die than marry someone else. But the pressure was so tremendous that she had to think about the family and Yang’s possible damage too. Her final resistance to the proposal to marry her teacher vanished when Jia showed up.

To be continued