Amorous Short Stories

Kang Ruyi is putting on a new lipstick.

She bought this lipstick because she saved the Go tuition fee paid by Yan Wu and did not drink chicken soup as Yan Wu suggested, so she bought it for two weeks.She went out to buy vegetables that day, and a simple beauty shop on the roadside was on sale, and this new lipstick was recommended by the salespersons.

One of them took Kang Ruyi's arm and told her with a smile, "A woman can be just as beautiful even if she is pregnant."

Kang Ruyi looked at the price of the lipstick and shook her head: "Forget it, don't dress up."

The sales girl didn't give up yet, and continued with her sweet voice: "I want to show your beautiful self to him, too."

Kang Ruyi smiled perfunctorily: "There is no 'him'." Taking one last look at the lipstick, she turned and left.

Therefore, the sales girl was a little surprised when she saw Kang Ruyi who came to buy this lipstick the next day.

Kang Ruyi is putting on this new lipstick.Because Yan Wu is coming soon.

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Kang Ruyi has never met her father, but she heard from her grandmother that her father runs a hotel in the United States and is a rich man.When I was three years old, I went to Jinghong, Yunnan Province with my mother and grandmother. Kang Ruyi was named there. She went to school there, and her mother and grandmother made shoes to make ends meet. Looking back on my 26 years, only those ten years were the best. So happy that in the days that followed, she always wondered if she had used up her luck early.

At the age of 14, Kang Ruyi was in the second year of junior high school. Because she did not have a local hukou, she paid a lot of high fees, which made the family even more stretched.However, Kang Ruyi had enough to eat and clothes, and had no sense of poverty, but all this changed after the death of Kang Ruyi's mother.

That night, Kang's mother stayed up to work on the sewing machine like an ordinary night. Kang Ruyi finished her homework and went to bed. Grandma stayed with her for a while, and then fell asleep on the small cushion.Kang Ruyi slept lightly, and heard a short "ah" in the middle of the night. It took Kang Ruyi a few seconds to wake up, rubbed her eyes and sat up, and called in a daze, "Mom?", missing her mother's last struggle, just watching Until she was lying motionless on the sewing machine.Kang Ruyi stared at the body without breathing ups and downs with wide eyes, feeling that something was wrong, feeling that it was too terrifying, she opened her mouth and couldn't make a sound, it took a few seconds to make her first scream.

The grandmother was old and blind, and couldn't afford to live here. They bought a good coffin with all the money they had on their bodies, and after the burial, they returned to Laos with a little belongings.

Kang Ruyi didn't go to school when she went back. She worked part-time as a receptionist in a restaurant in Laos and washed dishes. Her grandmother didn't know anything else.

Kang Ruyi is 15 years old. Although she has been hit hard, she is still full of enthusiasm. She endures the profit of the restaurant owner and actively saves money to realize her dream.She knew she was good at Go, so she saved money to buy chessboards and chess pieces, and participated in big and small competitions. Later, by chance, she played a game of Go with a young chess player who came to travel, and she only played two times. 10 minutes, lost.The chess player beat her while calling someone to book a hotel. Finally, he put away his phone and looked at her with raised eyebrows: "I have heard from people who have come to persuade you that you are not suitable for this job. You have no talent." Kang Ruyi lowered her head because she lost Blushing with anger.The chess player rolled his eyes, leaned over to her, put his hand on the back of her neck, rubbed his index finger against the tip of her hair twice, and said softly, "It's easy for a woman to make money." Kang Ruyi stood up and was about to leave. Thinking about it, she was so angry that she poured the wine she brought to the chess player on the chess player's face, and lost the job.

Kang Ruyi struggled for a while before she was sure that she had no talent for chess, and realized that she could not be a professional chess player and could not support herself with this. However, Kang Ruyi was still optimistic and relentlessly looked for the next way out.Kang Ruyi searched for jobs all over the street, knocked on the doors of businesses to ask if they needed help, and finally settled in a barber shop.The owner of the barber shop is a female smoker and a tattoo fanatic. When she met Kang Ruyi, she just got the age of "45" tattooed on her body. Seeing Kang Ruyi drenched in a rainy day, she ran to the door to find a job. She was sixteen or seventeen years old and had nothing. , just ran around with enthusiasm, told her that the salary was not much, and she could only sweep the floor when she came, Kang Ruyi's eyes lit up, and she nodded repeatedly.

Kang Ruyi started her hard-working life.Working in a barber shop and learning to cut hair, my grandmother's eyes are getting worse and worse, and everything she sees is white.Kang Ruyi runs around [-]:[-] and [-]st line every day, and sleeps only four or five hours a day, because she still has to spend a long time learning hair styling, and advises female smokers not to just cut their hair, but also to add dyeing, perm, and hair styling... Female smokers are left to themselves She did it, anyway, it wasn't her who was tired.

The 20-year-old Kang Ruyi's life is finally on the right track. Under her management, the barbershop's business has grown and stabilized. The number of customers has increased, and they have hired two other helpers.Grandma was blind, and Kang Ruyi hired a nurse to take care of her when she was busy.Kang Ruyi is very content.She also finally had time to fall in love.Originally, because she was too busy, Kang Ruyi turned a blind eye to the goodwill around her, but there is such a man who can play the guitar, sing love songs, write beautiful sentences, praise her in a hundred ways, and tattoo her name on my own heart.Kang Ruyi said that she had a hard life and didn't want to be with others for the time being, so the man kissed her hand and said that no matter how long it takes, I will wait for you and will always be with you.The female smoker has a bad temper and often gets angry with Kang Ruyi. The grandmother is old and always moody. When she is the most tired and unable to bear it, the man comforts her with a nice voice, encourages her, and kisses her gently.

Kang Ruyi fell in love with him.

Love with all my heart.In the eyes of lovers, the moon can be eaten as food, and kisses can be worn as clothes.After the business was done well, there were more men around Kang Ruyi, and some men with small family fortunes also gave glances secretly, but in Kang Ruyi's eyes, there was only this guitar man who had been with her, saying that she had endured hardships with her, and she wanted to be with her. He gets married.

When the female smoker heard that she was going to get married, she put on a face and told her not to get married, saying that the man was too poor, too flamboyant and useless, Kang Ruyi could not listen to her high-spirited and arrogant, and there was another quarrel.Grandma didn't agree either, she felt intuitively that it couldn't be done.Kang Ruyi is not afraid, she has already thought about it, although poor and lowly couples suffer from everything, but they are different, men are patient and gentle, and they dare to fight and do things themselves, there is nothing difficult to overcome.

So they got married.

Falling in love is always easy, getting to know each other is too difficult.

When Kang Ruyi saw the bill owed by the man, she really couldn't help herself and fainted.

If you faint and wake up again, loan sharks are not so easy to mess with.

The man ran away a long time ago, leaving Kang Ruyi with a love letter full of nonsense, a broken guitar, a three-month-old belly, and a lifetime of debts.

Kang Ruyi was sitting in the barber shop shaking, because the loan sharks poured dog blood on her door, and the smell was so strong that the house was smashed into a mess. Someone left a note saying that this was a warning.Kang Ruyi brought her grandma to the barber shop for a break, and she burst into tears as she spoke, causing the grandma beside her to stare and wipe away tears.The female smoker looked at the misery of the old and the young, thought for a long time, pinched her cigarette, and sighed: "Tell me, but you don't listen... Forget it, you sell this shop and see if you can get it back." How much?"

Kang Ruyi looked at the female smoker with tears in her eyes, and walked over to hug her. The female smoker pushed her away in disgust, but didn't push her away, so she hugged the child and let her cry in her arms.

But a drop in the bucket.

The loan sharks sat at Kang Ruyi's house all day long, and there were four or five men every day.Kang Ruyi had trouble moving, and several men asked her to contact the guitar man. Kang Ruyi was really desperate, she really couldn't find him, so she could only sit on the sofa trembling with her grandmother in her arms.No one repaired the broken window, so the wind whizzed in. The men took turns here, and Kang Ruyi dared not sleep day and night.The leading man has a bad temper and often slaps her in the face.The men went to the toilet at Kang Ruyi’s house without closing the door. They smiled at Kang Ruyi when she was sitting on the large toilet. Kang Ruyi turned her face away and didn’t want to look. Face stabbed: "What are you hiding, what the hell are you hiding, who do you think is dirty, bitch." The grandma couldn't see, so she waved her hand to hit the man, but was pushed to the ground, the old man fell hard, lying on the ground struggling , Kang Ruyi rushed to help grandma up, holding her trembling.Kang Ruyi didn't even dare to take a shower, and tried to lock the door when she went to the toilet, but the door was smashed down, and the men stared at her every move lewdly.Kang Ruyi was pregnant and almost went crazy.

One night when the men were drinking at her house, Kang Ruyi sat in the corner with her grandmother in her arms, eating the leftover meals of the men at noon, eating carefully, not wanting to attract any attention.The men were watching TV, swearing while drinking beer, and smashed the bottle on the ground after drinking, and Kang Ruyi shivered with the slap.A movie started to show on TV, and Kang Ruyi will never forget that movie, "The Fifth Element", after the heroine appeared half-naked, she beat and danced, and the men kept whistling while watching, until the heroine and the heroine kissed together When the fire was burning, the men fell silent, and Kang Ruyi heard them swallowing saliva clearly, and then the men turned their eyes away from the TV and turned to her.

Kang Ruyi's heart turned cold, and she looked at them approaching in despair, wanting to die very much.

She didn't dare to scream, and grandma was still beside her.At first, grandma didn't know what happened, but she just felt very quiet. After a while, she came to her senses and crawled towards them like crazy, beating them: "Beast, beast, she is still pregnant!" Grandma's voice was very loud , sharp and shrill, trembling hands did not hurt anyone with all their strength, but they annoyed someone. They were dragged to the door by their hair and hit the wall with great force. Since then, they never woke up again. Don't suffer.She couldn't remember anything about what happened next except the pain.There was blood under the legs, and the four-month prototype finally turned into a pool of blood.

Kang Ruyi spent more than a week without people and ghosts, and finally waited for the female smoker to pick her up.After Kang Ruyi handed over the store, she felt that it was not enough, and the matter was not that simple, so she told the female smoker that she had a father in the United States, and she was going to join him. Unable to escape, the female smoker said that if she had some time, she could contact the smuggler and go on a smuggling boat.Kang Ruyi felt that it was not safe, but she had no other choice and agreed.

That night, the men also fell asleep after drinking, and the female smoker came to pick up Kang Ruyi and leave.Seeing these men sleeping soundly, Kang Ruyi stopped in her tracks. She stood at the door thinking for a long time, then walked back, lightly poured wine on the carpet, poured wine on the curtains, and stood at the door ready to light the fire.The female smoker stopped her: "You should think about it. If you run away, they might as well go to him instead of you. They won't be so close to you. If you kill these people, they won't let you go. "Kang Ruyi didn't speak, lit the lighter and threw it on the ground, went out, and even locked the door on purpose.

When the boat failed to reach the United States, the smuggler swallowed the money and threw them off the boat.The female smoker was in poor health. She smoked too much and her lungs were almost rotten. She died after being ill for more than a month in Songkhla. This time, Kang Ruyi couldn't even afford a good coffin.

For the next five years, Kang Ruyi spent time in Thailand, living in fear, and finally ended up in a small town on the outskirts of Chiang Mai, doing a little meat business, paying high rents, and living in a humble home.

The pregnancy came out of nowhere this time, and Kang Ruyi didn't know whose it was, and didn't care.She thought about whether to have this child or not. Looking at her humble room, the sun only shines in at four or five in the afternoon, and it disappears after a while. The dark room, moldy furniture, no fun, no hope.But Kang Ruyi rubbed her belly, vaguely and enthusiastically, believing that she could get rid of this kind of life and take on responsibilities, ambitious and heavy on her shoulders.But it's not that simple.Kang Ruyi doesn't accept business and wants to raise the child in a serious way. She has no savings and no income.

That day a man came to him, and he didn't believe it when he told me not to do it. Kang Ruyi took out all the knives, and the man snatched them away and rubbed her body: "It's okay, I like pregnant women, it's more exciting. "Kang Ruyi bit the pervert, the blood on his mouth was unknown, and the pervert ran away roaring.Kang Ruyi sat on a stool and looked out the window. Men are like this. They always feel that if they are strong, they will be great if they have a long root.

When Kang Ruyi met Yan Wu for the first time, he didn't even realize that he was here to collect rent. He was far different from Gao Xiba in temperament.

Yan Wu leaned against the door frame, stood at the door and did not come in, and asked her if she could come in.

Yan Wu took his cheap gadgets to pay his rent.

Yan Wu helped her change the light bulb, repair the wires, repair the door, and drive away the hooligans.

Yan Wu occasionally brought overbought supplements.

Yan Wu came to learn Go and gave her a monthly income, even though Yan Wu knew how to play Go from the way he handled the pieces and how to set up chess.

Kang Ruyi once doubted the man's purpose.But in fact, Kang Ruyi intuitively knew that Yan Wu was not interested in him.

Yan Wu is polite and indifferent, with a kind of calmness that is used to wind and waves.There is also the feeling that Kang Ruyi can't tell. Only a homeless person can recognize another homeless person. Kang Ruyi knows that Yan Wu is also homeless, although Yan Wu never talks about his own affairs.Yan Wu's gestures reminded Kang Ruyi of the most popular boy in his class when he was young, well-bred, clean, and gentle.

Yan Wu doesn't talk much, so he really just came to play chess when he came to learn chess. Apart from helping Kang Ruyi with inconvenient things in life, he played chess against the chessboard at other times.After coming more times, Kang Ruyi talked more, and Yan Wu also just listened most of the time without making eye contact, and never commented or told her what to do, only when Kang Ruyi asked him clearly, "What do you think?" ?”, Yan Wu will say what he thinks.

Kang Ruyi had seen Yan Wu negotiating with the hooligans who came to seek trouble. Yan Wu had a habitual smile on his face, not the kind of warm and friendly smile, but the kind of smile that was slightly unfriendly. The corners of the mouth were raised slightly, and because of the sharp eyes, it was even a little cruel, and when she was with Kang Ruyi, she restrained herself.But Yan Wu also has moments when he laughs easily.When Yan Wu received a message from his mobile phone, he turned his head to look at it, and laughed when he saw it. Sometimes he would pick up the phone and reply, and sometimes he would turn his head and ignore it, but the smile remained on his face.

When Yan Wu came, he would always bring some courier boxes, which should have just been picked up.Sometimes Yan Wu thought it would be troublesome to take it back, so he took it apart here. Sometimes it was the seeds of flowers and plants, sometimes it was small inconspicuous carvings, sometimes it was some Chinese herbal medicine, and sometimes it was dog food.The strangest thing is that once it was taken apart, it turned out to be rattan, and a note was attached: "My mother passed it down, and I have endured it once. After all, society has improved. Here it is, you can use it in the future." Yan Wu received When he arrived, he sighed happily, picked up his phone and started typing.Kang Ruyi watched secretly, thinking that the person who sent the mail would send it every novelty he saw, so it was so fragmentary.

Later Yan Wuhui came with his dog in his arms.The dog grows fast, its name is Ladybug, it doesn't know how to bark, it listens to Yan Wu very much, but it is not so friendly to other people.Once, Yan Wu took a bag of cranberry bread and sealed it with a rope. After opening it, he suddenly wanted to tie up a bunch of extremely long hairs of a ladybug.Kang Ruyi was sure that she saw that the ladybug was unwilling, but she still lay on Yan Wu's lap and tossed him.

Kang Ruyi watched Yan Wu earnestly braid the ladybug and said, "You are quite gentle."

Yan Wu didn't raise his head, he continued to braid his hair, and his tone was flat: "...I'm very fierce... Do you think it's crooked?"

Kang Ruyi watched Yan Wu'an sitting at the table steadily, pulling his dog's ears and laughing, his heart moved, and he suddenly couldn't help crying.Yan Wu was taken aback, but Kang Ruyi's tears fell more and more fiercely, and she couldn't stop at all.She has been to so many places, shattered so many expectations, endured so much hardship, and lost so many people, but she has never cried so much like now.Because she cares more about Yan Wu than she imagined, this is a bad omen, as if the past suddenly jumped out, telling her to accept her fate, making her disheartened, but she is about to fall in love.I can't control it, I'm too afraid.

By the way, Kang Ruyi also cared about the person on the other side of the mobile phone information.There is a wonderful hostility towards that person.Once Yan Wu opened the box and it was sweet-scented osmanthus cake, which was very ugly and tasteless, and I don't know how long it would take to deliver it, maybe it was broken long ago.But Yan Wu looked very happy, and carefully closed the lid, ready to take it back, Kang Ruyi's nerves tightened.

She lowered her eyes and stared at the same bag as Yan Wu, reached out to take it, and said casually: "I'm hungry, let me cook."

Yan Wu looked at the chessboard and casually pointed at the sweet-scented osmanthus cake: "Eat all of that."

Kang Ruyi reached out to take the box with a smile, opened it, picked one with a heart on the skin, gently squeezed it out, brought it to her mouth and took a bite, the taste was not bad.

Yan Wu raised his head suddenly, as if remembering something, with a smile: "Forget it, leave one for me."

Kang Ruyi's mouth was astringent, and she swallowed the piece with great effort, not wanting to eat any more.

She asked Yan Wu if he had a lover, and Yan Wu admitted it straightforwardly, and then stopped talking about him.Once when Yan Wu was pouring tea, his cell phone rang, and Kang Ruyi leaned over to that side, carefully turning his head to look at the cell phone.A message popped up on the phone first, followed by several more.

The note is XX, and that XX said: "Then there is no seed left, let's take a photo of his balls for the last time."

"Really cut off the whole thing? Would it be too cruel..."

"My little ladybug is still a child..."

"Wait a minute...are you kidding me?"

Kang Ruyi felt that this XX was probably Yan Wu's. It didn't look like Yan Wu didn't want to mention it, but rather it was inconvenient to mention it, and Kang Ruyi felt that that person might be a man for no reason.

Hearing the sound of Yan Wu putting the teapot on, Kang Ruyi immediately sat back upright, her disappointment deepened, and she blamed herself again—either she did something wrong, or she did something meaningless.

"Isn't it hard work in a different place?" Kang Ruyi blew on the tea gently, staring at the floating tea leaves in the cup, and casually mentioned it.

Yan Wu looked up at her, stunned for a moment, didn't want to talk, but had to talk. "fine."

"I've seen such a person too." Kang Ruyi took a sip, slowly put down the teacup, reached out to gather a strand of hair behind her ear, picked up a white ball and twisted it between her fingertips, "The mouth is sweet and romantic, Give you all kinds of gadgets, always know what you want. If you are lonely, he will accompany you, no matter how far or tired you are, he will come, if you are tired, he will hug you and comfort you, and the love words are really first-class in the world One." Kang Ruyi looked at Yan Wu's face, who stared at the teacup without making a sound.Kang Ruyi sighed softly, as if she was sighing for Yan Wu: "But love, there is only icing on the cake, and there is no need to send charcoal in the snow. It is said that we are going through hardships together, but it is you who are going through hardships. He shouted to come on."

Yan Wu still didn't say a word.

Kang Ruyi felt that Yan Wu didn't really understand love at all, so he couldn't find anything to refute himself.Looking at Yan Wu's gloomy face, Kang Ruyi felt a little guilty, and seeing the changes Yan Wu brought about around her, she was a little annoyed at herself for saying such words.

When the phone rang, Yan Wu still tilted his head to look at it, and then chatted with that person with a smile.Kang Ruyi smiled and shook her head, feeling that she really overestimated her own influence, Yan Wuxu didn't take it to heart at all, his "caring" was just his own illusion.People will not change. If you have stumbled, you dare to love and be tempted, even if someone persuades you, you may not listen.Everyone's life is their own, and it's not an exaggerated movie novel. It's so easy to get together and understand each other with one heart and one mind.There is no set pattern, either after suffering hardships one will be strong, if one is disappointed one must fall, and if one is hurt one must gain wisdom. People in this world, except for those with little knowledge, are mostly disorganized.

Later, Yan Wu would often not come and ask a friend of his to come.Kang Ruyi guessed that Yan Wu was going to see that person. She asked the man who came for him, but the man just said that Yan Wu was busy.

Kang Ruyi doesn't like this man.This man's name is Poker, and he stared at his face the first time we met, and then he was embarrassed to look over.He is extravagant and quick-tempered, and does not have Yan Wu's demeanor and calmness at all.Can't make tea, can't play chess, Yan Wu said that he also wants to learn poker, but this poker is too stupid, and Kang Ruyi gets annoyed when he sees him.

Poker looked at a picture of Kang Ruyi's early years on the cabinet, and sincerely praised: "You used to be so good-looking." Then he quickly corrected, "You are so good-looking now!... I heard about you, and I think you... very……"

Kang Ruyi frowned, and walked over to hold the photo, which was for Yan Wu to see when he came. Besides, this poker really couldn't speak, and Kang Ruyi was about to lose his temper.Yan Wu never directly pokes people's wounds.

Seeing her pale face, Po Ke shut his mouth and sat back on the stool, looking at her a little cautiously.Poker-sized man, huddled on the stool, like a clumsy bear.Po Ke didn't dare to speak, so he secretly looked at her, seeing that she was always unhappy.Poker has collected a lot of jokes, and I told them to her, but it didn’t work at first. One time, I was too involved in the poker talk, and I learned the female voice very well, and I even raised my orchid fingers. Hearing Kang Ruyi turned her head and laughed.

Kang Ruyi's little joy is magnified exponentially in poker, and poker imagines the rest of his life in this smile.

He became more and more interested in poker, and Yan Wu would come over whenever he was busy.Poker is no longer depressed, which frightened the bridegroom.He told all kinds of jokes and made Kang Ruyi laugh.Decided to love with the child together, bought a crib for the baby, and gave it delicious food and drink, even Kang Ruyi didn't want it.Poker is still enthusiastic, but Kang Ruyi does not respond.

One afternoon, Kang Ruyi lay in bed and didn't think about it. The weather was very dry and very tiring.Yan Wu said that Poker came over this time, and Kang Ruyi heard Poker knocking on the door, turned his face and continued to lie down, ignoring him.It was getting dark gradually, and Kang Ruyi was so thirsty that she had to get up to drink water, when she heard a rustling sound at the door, she pushed it away and saw that it was a poker, and she was sitting on the ground with a sad face.As soon as Po Ke saw her standing up, he said in a heavy voice, "I thought you were sleeping, but when it was dark and there was no light, I thought something happened to you. I am going to look for you. Can you be careful!" Then Immediately his attitude softened again and he apologized.

Kang Ruyi really wanted to tell him to leave, but he was really tired and hungry, so he looked at the things brought by the poker and told him to come in.Poker walked in and said that it was not good to eat only bread, so he consciously went into the kitchen with his vegetables to cook.Kang Ruyi sat at the table and drank water.

Poker served glutinous rice, said while setting it up: "You can eat first." Then he went back to the kitchen to watch the soup.Kang Ruyi looked at the diced vegetables of different sizes in the bowl, and tasted it. It was bland without any hot sauce.

After a while Poker brought the soup, fish head soup, only one bowl.Kang Ruyi shook her head, Poker said she wanted to stew fish head soup, but she really just chopped off the fish head and cooked a bowl of soup, and the rest of the fish was still on the chopping board, isn't she stupid?

Poker finally sat down and poured himself water, the jug was empty.He picked up the teapot and poured tea.Kang Ruyi patted his hand, this tea has been stored for a few days, drinking it again will ruin your stomach.

"Let me boil water for you." As she spoke, she held on to her waist and wanted to stand up.

Poker quickly took the water bottle: "I'll go."

When Yan Wu came that time, he brought a small gadget, a small bottle with paintings in it.Kang Ruyi liked it very much when he saw it, and asked Yan Wu what it was.Yan Wu said that it was an internal painting, but it was not well drawn, and the scene was painted, but the main painting was just a willow stick.Yan Wu was a little embarrassed, saying that he learned it when he was a child, and that he was not good at drawing, and he couldn't draw fine things well.

"Why wicker?" Kang Ruyi was curious.

"It's easy to draw. Besides," Yan Wu put his eyes on the wicker and smiled, "Don't let the wicker grow green. The painting is not good..."

Kang Ruyi touched it for a long time, very happy: "It's okay, I think it looks good, give it to me."

Yan Wu was a little embarrassed: "Uh... next time."

Kang Ruyi froze with a smile, and immediately realized that Yan Wu was going to send this to that person.Kang Ruyi lowered her head, slowly clenched the small bottle tightly, then slowly let go, and returned it to Yan Wu who was teasing the dog: "Give it to that person?"

Yan Wu took it and smiled.

Kang Ruyi also squeezed out a smile: "Next time you want to give it to me, just give it to someone else."

"it is good."

Kang Ruyi woke up from her memories and looked at herself in the mirror after getting dressed.

Turning his head in front of the mirror, he brushed a strand of hair behind his left ear behind his ear.

He leaned closer to the mirror, pursed his lips, and took a piece of paper to wipe his lip line.

Sitting upright again, he looked at himself in the mirror after he had dressed up.

Sighing heavily, he shook his head helplessly.

Pick up the tissue just now and wipe off the painted lipstick.

Check out this new lipstick, tucked away in the back of the drawer.

There was a knock on the door.