THEY ALL SAY I'VE MET A GHOST

Chapter 15

A Fan Translation

CHAPTER 15 - Giving a Lesson (Part 2)

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In the moonlight Mu Huaitong's smile was extraordinarily piercing. I sighed. How could a nice girl like this have a worse idea of female beauty than a cast-iron gay man like me? It was one thing to use some powder to cover up blemishes and lipstick to add a little color, but putting on too much powder made the face look bloodless, and her lips looked as if she'd been drinking pig's blood. There was nothing beautiful about it.

Mu Huaitong took my arm in a natural gesture and said softly, "It's not good to walk after dark. I was worried Teacher Shen wouldn’t be able to see clearly. Let me help you."

She was talking as though I was an old man in his seventies or eighties. And Mu Huaitong was plastered to my body, her chest rubbing against my arm.

"Mu Huaitong, you..." I hesitated, looking at her.

She looked up at me and blinked. Her big eyes were like a spirit lure, and her chest rubbed against my arm again.

"You should drink more goji berry concentrate," I said with concern. "You're so cold, even though it's summer. Your blood iron content must be low and your blood circulation poor. Having such problems when you're this young will make it hard for you in the future. The most important thing now is to exercise more. When we have a break during class I'll recommend my exercise routine to you. It's very effective."

Saying this, I pulled my arm away from her chest, took off my jacket, and put it on her. The jacket was warm from my body and would help her warm up a little.

Fortunately, I had bought another jacket and shirt for class. If I'd been wearing a 19.9 yuan t-shirt like I wore for my part-time job, taking it off would have meant going bare-chested. I couldn't have lent it to Mu Huaitong.

Mu Huaitong's face shrank down into the jacket so I could only see her eyes looking at me. She asked, "Teacher, am I ugly? Is my figure bad?"

“You're very beautiful," I said confidently. "I was a liberal arts student. The majority of students at our school were girls. It was like drifting among clouds of beautiful women. But even in those surroundings you would be among the first rank of beauties. Your only disadvantage is that you lack self-confidence. I'm not like those straight men who have a problem with women wearing makeup. I think makeup can make you look more beautiful, as well as giving you more confidence. As long as you take care to protect your skin, makeup is a good thing. But everything has its limits. You’re so beautiful. Heavy makeup will only cover up your beauty. You should stick to light makeup."

And the most important thing was that her make-up was badly applied. When I went to school, I was surrounded by female students. They had passed along a lot of make-up tips to me. Even though I wasn't interested in that, I still remembered a lot.

Mu Huaitong's face twisted. She stared at me and said, "Don't you have any other ideas about me, teacher?”

After that, she blinked repeatedly. Her eyelashes were really long, but they weren't as long as Xiao Ning's. I thought of how Xiao Ning looked with his head lowered, deep in thought. His long, long eyelashes had captured my attention.

"I do," I said, nodding. "I hope you can make it out of the shadow of your past as soon as possible and face life with a positive attitude. There’s no barrier in the world that can't be crossed. People are stronger than they think. "

I knew that abandonment, miscarriage, and the contempt of her fellow students had hurt her a lot. This kind of pain wouldn't go away just because I stood there and told her to be strong. Mu Huaitong's future path wasn’t an easy one to walk.