Chapter 24 (2/2)

I said: “It’s more like you can’t get in right?”

Wei Yu: “Pft, if I put in effort, Oxford, Cambridge and whatever are all a piece of cake!”

Me: “Then how come you don’t put in effort? It’s still that line, it’s more like your effort isn’t enough right?”

Wei Yu: “It’s because I’m scared that you’ll be stressed to be with someone of a much higher social position.”

“……” I said, “You think too highly of yourself.”

“Darling don’t leave ah! I’m wrong, almighty one, little me will never dare to say such exaggerations again!”

Once, Xiao Di phoned me in tears, “Didn’t mom send me Jinhua sausages to school? Then when my cla.s.smates saw it, they asked what it was so I said leg ah leg*, then someone nearly phoned the cops and got me arrested!”

*[In China, ham sausages are called huotui which literally translates to fire leg]

“Then?”

“Sis, you have no compa.s.sion!”

“It’s you who didn’t learn English properly.”

“There are some Chinese that are very hard to translate okay?”

“Isn’t it just Jinhua leg?”

“……”

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