Seven Abysses

At the tender, not-quite-mature age of eighteen or nineteen, Yiqi met Yuanyi. He was a spirited young man, bright as sunshine, bringing light to every joy of her girlhood. After three years of entanglement, Yiqi sent him back to the sea of people, and he came back much later. She couldn’t understand why feelings like this existed in the world: why someone would stake half a lifetime on a bond born from the tiniest flutter at first sight. She looked down on it, yet couldn’t escape it.