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Golden Shores of Youth

This novel, narrated from the perspective of the protagonist Xiaoyu, chronicles her experiences and emotional changes from university life through to post-graduation. Xiaoyu is a woman who undergoes many ups and downs in her love life and personal journey, and her story touches on themes of friendship, love, loss, and growth. During her time at university, Xiaoyu becomes entangled in complicated emotional relationships with several male characters. Her relationship with her boyfriend Zhang Xiao is a mix of love and resentment. Zhang Xiao, burdened by his background in the underworld and a pessimistic view of the future, chooses to break up with Xiaoyu, hoping she can lead a better life. After their breakup, Xiaoyu experiences a period of confusion and loneliness, but she does not give up on searching for love. She later develops a relationship with another man, Muran, who, despite his status in the underworld, has genuine feelings for Xiaoyu and is willing to give up everything for her. Xiaoyu's friend Xiangxiang is also a significant character, sharing a deep friendship with Xiaoyu but also facing her own emotional setbacks. Xiangxiang is forced into an inappropriate relationship with Professor Zhang Cunzhen in exchange for academic success, causing her immense emotional trauma. After learning of Xiangxiang's ordeal, Xiaoyu tries her best to support and help her, but Xiangxiang ultimately chooses to run away from home, disappearing from Xiaoyu's life. In the latter part of the novel, as Xiaoyu faces Muran's departure and Xiangxiang's disappearance, she gradually learns to be strong and independent. She begins to reassess her life and future, deciding not to be swayed by emotions anymore but to take control of her own destiny. Xiaoyu's story is a journey of growth, self-discovery, and courage in the face of life's challenges.

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Man, My Man (Part 2)

The people on the bus changed one after another. I felt sleepy after sitting on the bus for a long time. I fell asleep on Yu Ran's shoulder without realizing it. Yu Ran sat on a travel bag filled with clothes, chewing the apple I washed yesterday. The people around him all moved away from him. Even though the surroundings were crowded, Yu Ran was empty. My man was excluded? I didn't care. I just wanted him to know that he wouldn't be lonely with me. So in my sleep, I tightened my hand around his arm. I wanted to lean on him tightly. He brought me security, and I wanted to bring him warmth. Yu Ran held one hand in my arms, and took out his mobile phone with the other hand and pressed the button, seemingly sending a text message... "Little lazy bug, it's time to get off the bus..."

Yu Ran gently pulled out his arm, and then reached out to hold my shoulder to stabilize my shaking and helpless body. I opened my eyes in confusion and looked at the high-rise buildings around me that were constantly receding. She pouted and said dissatisfiedly, "Haven't we arrived yet?"

"Haha, I reminded you to wake up. There are only two stops left! Pack up and make sure you didn't forget to take anything."

Mu stood up, stretched his body, and began to pack our luggage. "Am I that stupid?"

Ignore him and continue to sleep. As soon as Yu Ran and I got off the bus, a large group of people surrounded us! I suddenly remembered the harsh words that the middle-aged shrew said when she got off the bus. Could she be here? I was dizzy! I really wanted to pretend to be dizzy! Yu Ran, who was next to me, was carrying our luggage in large and small bags. When he saw someone coming, he handed me the handle of the suitcase and then went to meet him... "Brother Ran!"

"Ah Ran!"

The people around him surrounded Yu Ran and helped him take off the bags he was carrying. Then the leader gave Yu Ran a big bear hug. "Ah Ran, I haven't seen you for a month!"

The man with a majestic look and a sturdy body like a tiger said. "Haha! Yeah, long time no see, how was your New Year?"

Yu Ran laughed, and at the same time, he punched the man hard. "Thanks to you, the boss has increased the bonus again this year! Haha..."

The sturdy man said happily. "Huabao, we are brothers, don't say that!"

Yu Ran said in a deep voice. "Yeah! Yes, yes!"

The sturdy man nodded and smiled. It turned out that his name was Huabao. Yu Ran told me that many of the people around were Huabao's younger brothers. Although the others were not led by Huabao, they were also with Yu Ran and followed Jiuji Cowboy's father. I lowered my head, but I was looking for Zhang Han's figure in the crowd. I was a little scared. I didn't know how I should react if I saw him here. If there were other girls around him, how could I hide my panic? "Aran, this is... you..."

Huabao said the word "girlfriend" in lip language, and Yu Ran laughed. He didn't admit or deny it, which meant he agreed! I was so embarrassed that I pinched him from behind. "Let's take the train together and send her to school!"

Yu Ran said cheerfully: "Especially in this year, it's not safe to go out! Look at such a beautiful girl... Beautiful girl, so good!"

Finally, Yu Ran even imitated the accent of the Japanese on TV. "Good for you!"

I raised my hand and patted him on the head. To be honest, it was difficult for me to hit him on the head because he was 1.8 meters tall, but Yu Ran still cooperated with me, shrank his head and squinted his eyes, and cried "Ouch". "Hahahaha!"

The Leopards laughed heartily. "Why are you screaming? It doesn't hurt!"

I complained and rolled my eyes at Yu Ran. I obviously hit him lightly, didn't I? Yu Ran took the suitcase from my hand again, handed it to the Leopard's younger brother and asked him to take care of it, and then asked the two girls dressed as little girls to buy the food that girls like to eat. The two girls said they didn't want the money that Yu Ran stuffed in, and ran away hand in hand. I swear they are at least two years younger than me. Such a young body, running and disappearing in front of my eyes, how could it be that under the thin clothes, it was a body that had been stained by the dust and haze and had to be familiar with the world? I was sighing incoherently in my mind, and suddenly a discordant voice came: "Old Four! That young man, and the girl next to him is also in the same group with him!"

Bus shrew! Her hoarse and unpleasant voice was too harsh and memorable! "Fuck him! Go and have a look!"

The man called Old Four was wearing a black tight vest, his dark and knotted muscles contained a swollen aura, and the indelible oil between the rough and cracked wrinkles of his fingers showed that he was a car mechanic or something like that. And he and a group of young people wearing oil-stained sweatshirts behind him were probably his apprentices or laborers, holding either wrenches or hammers and screwdrivers. Is this going to kill someone? The old woman didn't come with him. Lao Si and the shrew came towards Yu Ran and me aggressively. They stared at us intently with a hideous smile on their lips. I was shocked. The hot and aggressive eyes of the people on the opposite side made me feel suffocated. So I quickly retreated behind Yu Ran and didn't dare to look at their faces. Yu Ran frowned, and the expression of joking with Hua Bao froze. Hua Bao was a man. Of course, he found that the scene was not right. The number of people, their clothes and the direction of their movements showed that they were not ordinary passers-by or travelers waiting for the train. Moreover, their team had already stepped into the range of our group of people. Stepping over the line would alert the landlord. Hua Bao was originally talking to the people and Yu Ran. At this time, he turned around and frowned. At first, the younger brothers brought by Huabao and the other people in Yu Ran's gang, except for the circle that came up to get close to Yu Ran, were squatting or standing around in groups of three or five, smoking and chatting. Now everyone put out their cigarettes and stopped talking, and turned to Lao Si and the shrew's group from all directions. Huabao raised his eyebrows, and the people around him took three or two steps to surround the group in the center. Yu Ran was also pulled behind by a few strong men among his own people to block him. "What the fuck is going on?" Huabao muttered in a low voice, and a muscle under his cheek twitched. The people around him immediately moved one step closer and surrounded the group tightly. At this time, it seemed that several security guards drove over in a small battery car. Seeing this, a person next to Huabao squeezed out of the crowd and went over to chat with the guards. They seemed to know each other. The guard sitting in the co-pilot seat of the car immediately took out a cigarette and shook out two, gave one to Huabao's younger brother, and held the other one and nodded to Huabao in the crowd. The younger brother rejected his cigarette, just took Huabao's cigarette and said a few words before coming back. When he squeezed into the crowd again and handed the cigarette to Huabao and whispered a few words, the guards had already said a few words with the intercom and drove away. "Fuck you! One cigarette for a meal!" Huabao cursed, but smiled, and smiled even more as he looked at the group of people who were surrounded by Lao Si and the shrew. Mockery, playing, indifference. Lao Si's eyesight was not bad either. His eyelids twitched twice. He glanced at the shrew beside him from the corner of his eyes, glared at her fiercely, and his mouth twitched twice. I think he wanted to say something but tried his best to hold it back. Then he took out a crumpled soft treasure from his bag with a smile on his face, slapped it, leaned over and handed it to Hua Bao with both hands, and said with a sincere smile on his face as if he knew each other: "Haha! Brother Bao, you are here! I saw you from a long distance! So, I hurriedly brought everyone to see you and say hello to you!"

"Fuck!"

Hua Bao slapped the cigarette handed over by Lao Si and spit on Lao Si's dirty leather shoes. Seeing this mouthful of saliva, I knew that there was no suspense in the current situation. It was already one-sided, and there was no need for too much explanation... At first, I was afraid that Lao Si's group knew Hua Bao! When the time comes, I'm worried that Huabao can't protect Yu Ran. After all, Yu Ran and I are just two people, but they are in the same group. And no matter how the other party says about the conflict between Yu Ran and the old lady, it's all Yu Ran's fault. But I obviously underestimated the power of Yu Ran and his gang in the provincial capital! Lao Si also knows Huabao! That's even better! Doesn't Huabao restrain his habits in front of me? Didn't he mention to Yu Ran just now whether I was Yu Ran's "girlfriend" and was afraid that I would be unhappy to hear the vulgar words, so he said it in lip language? Then what is the other party Lao Si? Now my waist is straight, and I stand out from behind Yu Ran and stand close to him. Yu Ran also gently holds my hand, and presses his thumb against my palm and rubs it. Haha, now I have no pressure at all, my breathing is much smoother, and my heartbeat is much calmer... Uh, no, my heart is beating violently again. I have an impulse to stand out and squeeze the strong men in front of me to the front, so that the shrew Lao Si and the others can see that I am a weak woman. What can you do even if I spit on you? What can you do? Suddenly, I remembered the scene in "Titanic" where Jack taught the heroine Rose to spit. Now I think they are really romantic! It turns out that romance has so many different interpretations! The romance brought to me by Yu Ran is so comfortable. Although many passers-by around us are timidly looking at us, and even dare not look at us twice, they turn their heads and walk away. I can imagine that I am in the crowd without any pressure. Haha, at least in this crowd I can come and go at will, talk and make trouble at will, and hold the hand of the man next to me at will, while the others can only wait for Huabao to speak tremblingly. Those who should speak stand in front and bow and smile, and those who should not speak close their mouths more tightly than one. Huabao was chatting with them. Yu Ran was worried about me. He said a few simple words to Huabao, patted Huabao on the shoulder and said in a flat voice: "You handle it."

The fourth brother looked up at me when he heard it. His face was blue and white, and the veins on his forehead were exposed. The beads of sweat kept rolling down like a broken thread. Haha, I kicked the iron plate, right? It's what I deserve! This group of people usually do harm to so many people. Yu Ran said that if he and I met them today, we would have to see blood at the least. Hospitalization is a small matter. It's a blessing that we didn't have a lifelong trauma. Huabao's little sisters came back with the snacks that Yu Ran asked them to bring. Yu Ran asked them to sit down by the flower bed and open the things to share with her and me. The two of them seemed to be more concerned about the crowd around them and frequently looked over there. Yu Ran explained a few words to them, and Huabao came back. "Are you okay?"

Yu Ran asked. "Hmph! You can't make any waves. The meal money for the defense has also been settled, hahaha..."

Huabao laughed happily. At that time, a ray of sunlight hit him. His strong body and such a bright and cheerful laugh made me suddenly feel that these Jianghu men were also quite simple and cute. They were so happy just by cheating others for a meal. Think about the people in the office buildings, who are busy from morning till night and frowning. What's the motivation for such people to live? Maybe for the sake of life, everyone has to work hard, but the way they run is different, so the gains and losses are also different... Suddenly I feel that there is nothing wrong with Jianghu men? Zhang Han, Yu Ran and others, aren't they also easily satisfied? Is there anything more wonderful than bringing satisfaction and happiness to your man? At least as an ordinary happy little woman, not a queen, a strong woman or a doctor, I think there is no such thing. Afterwards, Huabao and his brothers warmly invited Yu Ran and me to a famous hotel nearby for a big meal. When we checked out in the lobby, the hotel manager didn't even ask us to pay when he saw that Huabao was here, and just said to put it on the bill. In fact, we didn't eat much! It was a favor for nothing. After saying goodbye to Huabao and his group and getting on the train, I told Yu Ran my thoughts. Yu Ran smiled and touched my head and said, "Silly girl, that's not how you calculate the bill! Sometimes you have to deliberately owe someone something so that you have a chance to pay it back. In the process of owing and paying, the relationship becomes deeper..."

Don't listen to those annoying big truths. I want Yu Ran to tear open a box of Guiling Gao and feed me. Yu Ran always uses a small plastic spoon to cut the Guiling Gao into a thin strip and feed it to my mouth. I just suck it gently and feel a mouth full of coolness and fragrance. I swallow it after holding it for a while. After eating, I forced him to tell me a few stories and then lay down on the bed to sleep. Yu Ran's story is childish, but childish is not mentally retarded. It is probably a fairy tale fable like those children's enlightenment stories... In my dream, I seemed to come to a fairy tale ocean, with all kinds of cute little animals, children from all over the world, naive aliens, kind-looking grandfathers, and endless toys and stuffed bears to play with... Then I came to a sea of ​​flowers, jasmine, lily, rose... In the center, there are countless small jades. I fell into the sea of ​​small jades at once. Small jades only have flowers, no thorns. I rolled around in the small jades, and there was a deep red world around me... deep red, deep red. But it suddenly turned black! Endless darkness, I couldn't see the edge, nor could I see myself. I only felt a sudden feeling of weightlessness, and my heart was suspended all of a sudden. I wondered if I was going to fall to the ground and be smashed into a bloody mess. I curled up my body with all my strength, hugged my hands tightly in front of my chest, and frowned tightly, waiting for the moment of hitting the ground. When I felt that moment was coming, I even felt a sense of relief. The feeling of weightlessness was too torturous. I still like the sense of being down to earth, which gives me a strong sense of security. I closed my eyes in my sleep, but suddenly I felt that I fell into a warm embrace. A strong hand caught me steadily, and then I felt moist and warm around me. There seemed to be water around. I seemed to be in that person's arms, and we were all in a hot spring pool. I opened my eyes and saw his face clearly... "Hey? What's wrong with you, sister?"

Yu Ran helped me cover the quilt and looked at me with concern. "Oh?"

I really didn't want to die, nor was I in the man's arms. The shaking carriage told me that I was on the train. I immediately fought back: "Who is your sister!"

"Hey, I was reading a book on my phone just now, and I heard you hum. I thought you were comfortable, but after a while I found that you struggled in your sleep... Do you always have nightmares? Why are you so restless when you sleep!"

"I... I don't think so. I don't know what happened this time..."

"What about last night?"

How dare you mention what happened last night! It was you who made me suffer! I said angrily: "Who told you to work so hard last night!"

"Hey, the young couple is flirting... Come and help me!"

A female voice came over. Yu Ran and I turned around and saw that it was a woman in her thirties. She might have come on board when the train stopped at that station just now. She was moving a large and seemingly heavy suitcase to the shelf on the train. Yu Ran hurried over to help her put the luggage away. The woman was on the upper bed above me, which was on the third floor. She might have felt that it was too early to sleep, so she sat on the edge of my bed and started chatting with us. Yu Ran sat back on his bed opposite, reached into our food bag and took out an apple and handed it to the woman. She didn't want it, so Yu Ran handed it to me. I had just woken up and found that I was very exhausted from the dream, so I took the apple and started to eat it. The woman introduced herself as a worker from the insurance company, and then she kept talking about various types of insurance to us. I had just had a good sleep and felt energetic, so I might have insomnia tonight, but I was confused by her chattering. Yu Ran saw the bitter look on my face and told her to stop talking, saying that his wife wanted to rest. The woman and I looked at him in shock, but he smiled at me calmly. The woman asked in confusion

"Are you... married?"

"Yeah, we just got married not long ago."

Yu Ran loves to make up stories. "Ah? But... but..."

The woman seemed to be stimulated by something and was stumbling. "But what?"

Yu Ran's very frank expression showed no flaws, as if he wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with you. "But now... uh, it's rare to get married early these days! Especially for you who are unstable... there are many factors of change!"

The woman frowned slightly and seemed to be telling a story. "Hehe, it doesn't matter! I... I love my wife very much..."

Yu Ran was actually shy! He glanced at me uneasily, and I silently made a "humph!"

expression, which really pissed you off, but was what he said true? If we really got married, would it be so harmonious? Would he still be so shy to talk about our relationship to others? The following conversation finally got out of the topic of insurance. The woman is a marriage-phobic person, or a marriage-rejecting person. She is over 30 years old this year. She smiled and said that she would not tell us her real age and she is still unmarried. Gradually, the two of them talked a lot, and I was mostly a spectator. Because the other people in the same compartment were all elderly people and fell asleep early, Yu Ran and her topic became more and more open. When it came to whether she had had sexual experience before marriage, the woman did not shy away at all. She told Yu Ran about her past, saying that her first time was taken away by a fellow villager of her male colleague and boyfriend when she just started working, and then the man was transferred to the unit and gradually broke off the relationship, and then it was her new boss... From then on, I was not in the mood to listen to their chats. Instead, I thought about myself and my marriage. How much would the person I was going to marry love me? How long would he love me? Who is he?