When I was sixteen, someone broke one of my legs to save Ruan Niannian. From then on, the young masters and ladies in Kyoto laughed at me behind my back for being a cripple. Ruan's father and Ruan's mother therefore made an engagement for me and Ruan Niannian, but Ruan Niannian had no intention of marrying me. It wasn't until I was twenty-five years old that I accidentally bumped into her smiling coquettishly and nestling in the arms of another man. When she mentioned me, she sounded impatient and indifferent. I calmly broke off the engagement with Ruan's father and Ruan's mother, and went to Hainan alone with my suitcase. On the day I left to board the plane, Ruan Niannian came to stop me. She warned me not to be ungrateful and that no one would look down on me without her. I turned around and handed over my boarding pass without hesitation.
