"Hello my little nymph, did you mean what you said last night?" I asked her.
Suddenly she spun around and looked back at me, and then gave me a wicked grin and a wink, before talking back into the phone and saying, "That depends on if you want me to mean it or not."
At about 7 P.M. I saw her come online, so I sent her a basic "Hello" and waited for a reply. We chatted a few moments in general before I asked her where she was, and she said she was in her bedroom at her family's home. This gave me the courage to probe a little more into the messages from the night before.
"So Lei, just how serious were you last night, and why did you decide you wanted to flirt with me, an older guy, and a foreigner to boot?" I asked her.
There were a few minutes of nothing, and then finally she replied.
"Well I don't care that you are older than me, and to tell the truth, I have seen you walking with your young Chinese wife and she seems so happy," she said, then added. "If you can make her so happy, and she looks only a few years older than me, then I guess that you are a very good lover, and that is the sort of guy I want to make love to me."
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For the last 3 years, I had been teaching English in China and she was just another Chinese student, the same as any other girl I had seen.
But there was something about her. Something I could not tell at that time just what it was that drew me towards her, but I never imagined that I would end up cheating on my wife with my student.