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Love Quietly Went Offline
The north wind sweeps across the land, snapping white grass; in the barbarian skies, snow flies as early as August. As if an overnight spring breeze had come, thousands upon thousands of pear trees burst into bloom. Snow drifts through the beaded curtains, soaking the tent screens; fox-fur robes aren't warm enough, and silk quilts feel thin.
All Life Is Suffering
In the tenth year of the Yuanhe era, I was demoted to assistant administrator of Jiujiang Commandery. The following autumn, while seeing off a guest at the mouth of the Pen River, I heard someone playing the pipa on a boat at night. The notes rang out with the unmistakable style of the capital. I asked who she was and learned that she had once been a courtesan in Chang'an, where she studied the pipa under the two masters Mu and Cao. Now past her prime, she had married a merchant. I ordered wine