The story of Mr. Renhe Ren

Terrific take from the prompt! Ren's waiting in silence brings about the corpse of his enemy, whose misdeeds have caught up to him. He's given a measure of vindication for all of his warnings, previously snubbed, from those who finally were able to see the guy for who he was. I liked how you wrote Ren contemplating what he's been told in the end.

Congratulations on receiving a well deserved Curie vote, Tristan!!

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c-squared (60) · 6 years ago

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anthony321 (25) · 6 years ago

Muy interesante historia

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delishtreats (70) · 6 years ago

Interesting take on this story... I like that one did everything to save his daughter while the daughter of the other is dying as well.. I wonder what he would do next..

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tristancarax (66) · 6 years ago

If you saw two daughters in there, I made a mistake in my editing. However, it is a very interesting take. If I were to re-edit this, I'm keeping this thought in mind.

That is a lot to be told. I question what I would do in that situation.

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delishtreats (70) · 6 years ago

My bad! For some reason I thought that Zhāng's daughter was healed and it was Ren talking in the end. I must have misread or didn't see that it was Zhāng telling Ren that he goes to see his daughter..

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tristancarax (66) · 6 years ago

lol.

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arcange (73) · 6 years ago

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richbukari1 (25) · 6 years ago

Nice work

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tristancarax (66) · 6 years ago

Thanks

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randomwanderings (56) · 6 years ago

Another great finish to a story. A bit different than many that I have read for this week.

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tristancarax (66) · 6 years ago

I'm glad I hit on a different cord.

Thanks for stopping by.

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patrick1202 (33) · 6 years ago

Hi im just new here and i find your work very interesting and very good, your works are one reason that inspired me to make my own first novel here

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tristancarax (66) · 6 years ago

Wow. This is a very nice thing to say.

What is your novel about and what about my writing inspired you?

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agmoore (64) · 6 years ago

You took this is such a completely different direction. It never fails that you are original. I think it is your destiny. What a lovely destiny.

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tristancarax (66) · 6 years ago

Sometimes I'm too different, scaring people away. LOL

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agmoore (64) · 6 years ago

I don't see anyone running :))

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wakeupkitty (76) · 6 years ago (edited)

So your finish is what Mr Renhe Ren saw... or hoped for that would happen? He hoped he would be right and Zhāng his wife would die, his daughter soon too and he would be the one to send his enemy away/out of the village?

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tristancarax (66) · 6 years ago

How I intended it to come across is Ren returns home. There he's met by an elder of whom he'd had problems with in the past. The elder had the wife and daughter. The person screwing with Ren was close with the elder. The elder took in troubled person, ignoring what he'd heard about him. When that person's true colors emerged, the elder sent him down the river. He tells Ren without telling him or know that Ren had seen his old enemy face down in the river. My goal here was to say it without saying it because we know from the first half what Ren saw.

This is also a take on a situation in my personal life. There was this con-artist coming to the Y. - I'd been conned by him and known other who suffered the same fate. - I warned the Y about this person when I noticed he was sneaking in. The Y let him get a membership. Do you know how difficult to be around a person who you know beyond a shadow of a doubt is a psychopath and not flip out because other people who see the psychopath as "well put together" will look at you like you're a nut case? I kept my mouth shut when around him and I gently warned others not to close to him of his behavior. Eventually, he was suspended from the Y. I didn't have to do anything. He did it to himself by sleeping in the Y, stealing locker space, and other things I've yet to hear about.

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brisby (58) · 6 years ago

My hat's off to you Tristan! It's hard as hell to stand by quietly when you know the true character of a person. While there's always the chance that they've changed, it doesn't happen all that often to someone who's been able to get away with their lies and/or selfish behavior. There's a 'man' (using the term loosely here for he's anything but) who abused a daughter (she was 6 at the time) of my friend (BADLY) but because he was underage at the time (15 then, he's now 26 or 27), was given house arrest and counseling to rehabilitate him. According to the law, he's paid his dues but, I can't help but wonder if he's truly sorry for what he did and has changed. Though I don't see him often, maybe once or twice a year, it makes me sick to see him happy and laughing it up with the deli clerk or the supermarket teller when I do. To anyone's knowledge, he's not done anything physical like that since but according to his mother (a relative of my friend) he is an asshole to his current wife.

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gsw2019 (32) · 6 years ago

Muy buena historia, excelente!

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curie (76) · 6 years ago

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