"There are two good things in this world: strong liquor and honey. Strong liquor stimulates the nerves and numbs pain; honey tastes sweet and mild, nourishing the body and soothing dryness.
"Bitter medicine is wrapped in sugar coating, sliding into the stomach to cure the illness.
"Sugar is a kind of bait. Its honeyed sweetness lures you..."
Huangfu Huo dropped a sugar cube into her coffee. Watching it grow damp and sink, she closed the slightly yellowed journal in her hands. Huangfu Huo's life was like a glass of strong liquor, and that journal was like the red silk used to seal a wine jar. It had merely gathered a little dust and grown old. Huangfu Huo was a woman who could almost never get drunk, and she thought strong liquor was what she loved most in this life. She hadn't realized that women are born with a taste for sweetness.
This story is purely fictional.
Theme: Lured into the game, tasting the bitterness of the truth, and finding life's sugar
