Scary Stories and Urban Legends

I Would Rather Die

In Beijing, China, there were two
high school students, a boy and a
girl, who really liked each other.
They both worked hard at their
studies because they wanted to
succeed in life.

They would always help each
other with their homework and
they spent so much time together
that they eventually started
having feelings for each other.
Soon, they became boyfriend and
girlfriend.

When they graduated, the boy
went to Nanjing University and
the girl went to Beijing University.
They kept in touch and
maintained their relationship.
They planned to get married
when they finished college and
have children together.

But too much time spent apart
can change a person’s feelings
and in Beijing, girls are vulnerable
to temptation. While the girl was
living in Beijing, she met lot of
men. They were more successful,
wealthier, wittier and more
handsome than her boyfriend. She
decided to break up with her
boyfriend and stay in Beijing.

When she broke the news to her
boyfriend that she was dumping
him, he went out of his mind. He
kept pestering the girl with
phonecalls until she stopped
answering. Then, he travelled all
the way to Beijing to see her, but
the girl was very unsympathetic.
She told him their relationship
was over and she had found a new
love. She told him to accept the
break-up and go home.

In a moment of anger and
desperation, the boy took a knife
and cut his wrist. “I would rather
die than lose you!” he cried. He
had some kind of crazy idea that
this would prove to the girl how
much he loved her and convince
her to take him back. He was very
much mistaken.

The girl didn’t even try to stop
him. She didn’t even bother to call
an ambulance for him. She just
stood there and watched as the
blood drained from his body. He
writhed on the ground in
convulsions of pain and agony.
Until his dying breath, he stared
at the girl, hoping she would
agree to take him back.

When he was dead, she called the
police and they came to take his
body away. She didn’t even bother
to attend his funeral.

Shortly afterwards, the girl
discovered she was pregnant.
Nine months later, she gave birth
to a little boy. Before long, she
was fed up with being a mother.
Taking care of a child was just too
much work and it was affecting
her social life. When men found
out she had a child, they didn’t
want to date her.

Eventually, she decided to give
the little boy to her mother so
that she could raise him instead.
She didn’t like her baby much, so
it wasn’t a difficult decision to
make and she found her life was
much more fun without him.
However, her mother insisted
that she visit the boy one
weekend per month.

One night, the girl drove to her
mother’s house to visit her son.
She only planned to stay there an
hour or so and then she would
head back to Beijing to spend the
evening with her new boyfriend.
When she got to her mother’s
house, she saw the boy sitting in
the front garden. She noticed
there was something odd about
him.

When she looked closer, she
suddenly realized that he was
slicing his wrist with a knife and
sucking the blood. The girl
freaked out. She ran over and told
him to stop. The little boy stared
at her intently. That look was
familiar. She recognized that
stare.

Suddenly, the child pounced on
her and slit her throat with the
knife. “I would rather see you die
than lose you!” he cried.