“This was the first time I’d really sat down and talked with my fiancé. He talked to me about Schopenhauer and Freud, about Zhuangzi’s wife dying, about Dazai Osamu, about the tragedy of his childhood, and about this engagement between us that had come out of nowhere and led nowhere.”
“The next day, he took me out of class, drove me on his motorcycle to see the cherry blossoms on Mount Fuji, took me to a little hole-in-the-wall for ramen, and made a wish beneath a sky full of fireworks.”
“On the third day, he said he would work hard to make money and help the two of us escape our engagement.”
“On the Nth day, Nian, my Nian, for your sake, I’ll make you go bankrupt and turn you into a good-for-nothing who can’t live without me!”
