The Storm of Silence

At twenty-three, the phrase Qiao Gaiqi hated most was, "May all lovers end up as brother and sister."

But her girlfriend, Xie Lansheng, was a woman through and through. They clearly couldn't become "brother and sister," so they'd have to become something else.

[High-drama warning]

[This really is melodramatic]

*There is a fifteen-year age gap between them.

*The one-sentence summary is from Mao Buyi's "A Journey Along the Mountain Road."

Theme: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.