A Feast Without Winter

The first time the girl saw the boy, she thought he looked like the little child in the painting. She thought, When I grow up, I’ll marry him.

The second time she saw him, he seemed like someone from a painting. He was the most beautiful sight in the world, her very own light. She still wanted to marry him.

The boy was frail and could not learn martial arts, yet he was fiercely ambitious. He promised to marry her once he had conquered the realm. So the girl traveled thousands of miles to Kunlun to learn martial arts. She mastered her skills and led a million soldiers from her family to win the realm for him.

When their wedding day came, the girl dressed up in high spirits, but the boy married someone else. She stormed into the palace with her sword. Looking at the man she had loved for more than a decade, she no longer wanted answers or even to kill him. Yet when she saw him, she still couldn’t bring herself to strike…