"Are you waiting?"
"I didn't wait, but I waited again."
"How to say it?"
"He didn't come, but you did."
Purpose: To narrate the story of a newspaper clerk and a Peking Opera pianist during the Republic of China, to explore an ideal Platonic relationship, and to depict social life in Beijing from the 1930s to the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
