I Shall Let Neither the Tathagata nor You Down

Guo Wenming lost his father when he was young and depended on his mother. He wouldn’t let her find a stepfather, but she and the man she’d once been involved with never truly broke things off. At school, Guo Wenming had a crush on a female classmate, but she got into a teachers’ college while he failed the entrance exams. When he grew up, he realized he’d been childish and stopped interfering in his mother’s life. His mother tried to set him up with his stepfather’s daughter. His parents had feelings for each other, but their children did not. After his divorce, he took refuge in Buddhism, while his former classmate also saw through worldly concerns. Could they still fall in love?