Pain was a patch of moss on Ou Jinan, attached to him from the day he was born: cool, damp, and needing no sunlight.
Happiness and love were things he learned later, like learning a second language. He would always speak with an accent, always have to translate it in his mind first.
Still a short story, only about ten thousand words.
Ou Jinan is the only protagonist. Chen Zexi is here only to help Ou Jinan understand what "love" is.
Theme: Understanding those unhealthy, twisted forms of "love".
