"My boy, as long as I treasure you, that's all that matters. I don't care how anyone else looks at you."
It turns out that karma is real.
She thought he was doing this to protect his family from trouble, so she wanted to ask when they would divorce. But all she saw was the young man tilting his head to one side as he said, "Isn't marriage supposed to last forever? Besides, that isn't why I did it. I truly want to marry you."
When you're young, you never understand why love is so impossible to figure out.
Only later do you learn that if it's not the right person, even your fiercest passion will come to nothing.
Ancient men came of age at twenty with a capping ceremony + I know + but I've made some changes in the story.
The children's romance takes center stage in the middle and later parts.
The novel is unfinished. I was planning to write the second half earlier, but lost the draft, so it got delayed.
Message: If you don't say some things out loud, no one will know.
