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HSK 1My Sister's Boyfriend
A family waits for their daughter's boyfriend in heavy snow as her birthday dinner grows cold.
3 chapters · audio + pinyin
HSK 2The Day Before New Year
A rushed mother fights holiday traffic after learning her son is sick.
4 chapters · audio + pinyin
HSK 3No Seat in the Library
A student resents a classmate saving seats, then learns his roommate is hospitalized.
6 chapters · audio + pinyin
HSK 4The Last Photos of the Old Street
A student documents a doomed old street, but its longtime mechanic doubts anyone cares.
6 chapters · audio + pinyin
HSK 5Tomatoes on the Fifteenth Floor
An exhausted marketer grows tomatoes on her balcony, until pesticide drives the bees away.
6 chapters · audio + pinyin
HSK 6The Smell of Oil at the Night Market
A food inspector traces a night-market illness to tainted oil—and pressure to hide it.
4 chapters · audio + pinyin