I got on the carriage in a daze, but I didn't know the direction I was going. I asked the driver, but no one paid attention to me, as if I didn't exist. Before this, I had never been out, but I had a vague feeling that I was about to step into a strange world. It might be the world my mother talked about, a place that could excite me and make me yearn for it.
The carriage traveled for two full months, and what I arrived at was not the arena that I had longed for, but the bridal chamber! ! ? ?