After Going Underground with the Big Shot

A bittersweet romance: a little angst, lots of sweetness, and a love story worth savoring.

“I truly love you, and my ideals are just as real.”

Love is a question with no answer, one that lasts a lifetime.

“I love you, so everything I’ve done for you was my choice. I’ll bear the consequences myself. You don’t have to carry that burden for me.”

“With you behind me, I can be safe and sound.”

Ming Kong sat below the stage, raised an eyebrow, and craned his neck to listen closely, unwilling to miss a single second of what von was saying.

“I can’t give up my ideals, and I can’t give you up, either. Perhaps God can’t forgive my greed and selfishness.” Von’s face was full of sorrow as he said this.

They had seen the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro together, visited the mountain lakes of the Pyrenees, and gone to Murmansk to see the aurora. But the world was too vast to let two lovers live together beneath the sun.

“Forget the aurora that night. Just pretend you’ve forgotten me.”

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said that. Don’t forget me.”

Von said nothing. He only held Ming Kong tightly around the waist, afraid Ming Kong would disappear the very next second.