Parents' orders, matchmaker's words.
It creates the desolation of nine times out of ten when one hears about love. An empty news means you miss half your life; an encounter makes the rest of your life piercing.
What everyone else says...
The mutual acquaintance that we met for the first time could not withstand the long consideration of right and wrong. It took half a lifetime of piercing pain to repay the rest of our lives as strangers.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
