Drunk on Nine Books

Life’s seven sufferings are birth, aging, sickness, and death; meeting those we resent; parting from those we love; and failing to get what we want.

Su Yao had seen more than enough of these seven sufferings during this trip down the mountain, yet she still couldn’t see through the last one.

To long for something and never get it, to get it only to lose it again. As they were consumed by hope and fear of loss, who had fallen into whose trap, and who had unsettled whose heart? Perhaps even the person who laid the trap had no idea how it would all unfold...