Dark Chinese Newspaper Story Poster

Objective: Create a square Chinese dark newspaper-style story poster, themed around {argument name="story title" default="Payment link"}, employing a restrained, sensual, and visually reminiscent of old magazine collage aesthetics.

Canvas: 1:1 square poster, black worn paper background with heavy grain, scratched edges, dust, smudges, faded ink, photocopy texture, and uneven white distressing. Use only black, gray, and off-white monochrome throughout.

Layout: Employ an irregular two-column editorial layout beneath a large, distressed title. The title occupies the top third, slightly left-aligned, using oversized, rough, white Chinese brush/newspaper font, reading {argument name="main headline" default="Payment link"}. Precisely arrange 11 independent text blocks below: 6 blocks in the left column and 5 in the right. Mix standard paragraph blocks, fine hand-drawn rectangular borders, torn strips, and prominent quotations. Maintain tight, imperfect margins, like an underground magazine or old crime newspaper clipping.

Text Blocks, precise count:
1. Top-left standard paragraph: “The first time I added her on WeChat,
was through a neighbor of my sister’s.

The neighbor was the girl’s aunt, saying she was twenty-five or twenty-six,
selling car insurance in our hometown, and was pretty and had a good personality,
but didn’t have much social interaction, so she wanted to find a reliable partner.”
2. Left-side bordered paragraph: “I didn’t have high hopes for the word ‘reliable.’
Having gone on many blind dates, the ‘good personality’
described by matchmakers is sometimes just ‘doesn’t lose her temper’; ‘stable job’
might just mean she hasn’t quit yet; ‘looks young’
often means the photos were well-taken.”
3. Left-side bolded quote paragraph: “But her photos were indeed good-looking.
Small face, fair skin, and she looked very young when she smiled,
appearing several years younger than her actual age.
We started chatting quite smoothly.
She would ask about my work and proactively share her daily life,
sometimes cracking a joke.”
4. Left-side torn strip: “I thought at the time, maybe this one could go normally.”
5. Left-side large bordered quote: ““Another payment link.””
6. Bottom-left standard paragraph: “I paid the money.
Then I told myself, maybe she’s just very outgoing,
maybe it’s a test, maybe this is just how young people date these days.”
7. Top-right small lead-in plus torn quote: “A few days later, she suddenly sent a message:” followed by a torn strip reading ““Treat me to breakfast, okay?””
8. Top-right paragraph: “I thought she was joking, or wanted me to
order her some takeout, so I was about to ask her what she wanted,
a payment link was already sent over.
Straightforward and direct, without any preamble.
I stared at that link for a few seconds,
a slight sinking feeling in my heart.”
9. Right-middle torn quote: ““We haven’t even met yet.””
10. Right-middle paragraph and bottom border: “We hadn’t even fully familiarized ourselves with each other’s tone of voice,
she had already naturally asked me to pay for her.
The amount wasn’t large, just a few dozen yuan.
But what made me uncomfortable,
was never the few dozen yuan, but the sense of entitlement.

I didn’t react immediately.
After all, it was because she was pretty.
People are sometimes honest and also quite powerless.
If it were someone who didn’t meet my aesthetic standards at all,
I probably wouldn’t have bothered chatting anymore.
But facing a pretty girl, many principles are first pushed back.”
11. Bottom-right concluding paragraph and torn emphasis: “A couple of days later, when we were chatting at night, she suddenly said she wanted steak.
Immediately, another payment link.
This time, I didn’t even have the energy to make excuses for her.” followed by a gray torn block reading “I didn’t pay.
She wasn’t angry, just sent an emoji,
as if the matter wasn’t important at all.
But I had already crossed her off in my mind.”

Typography & Style: Use bold, rough, and notched distressed Chinese fonts. The main title should appear hand-drawn and eroded. Body text should be off-white, clear and readable, with uneven baselines, simulating a printed texture. Quotations should be much larger than the body text, placed within rough rectangular borders or pasted torn frame. Add hand-drawn border lines, faint column lines, scratches, stains, and random paper wear marks.

Restrictions: Preserve the original Chinese text as much as possible, avoid adding new text, avoid color, avoid modern minimalist design, avoid illustrations or figures, no Logos, no watermarks.