Upon hearing she fell into that bottomless Dayang Lake, her body never found, the weight on his chest felt as heavy as a thousand jun, pulling straight down, causing him heart-wrenching pain.
Where before he couldn't discern why he kept thinking of a girl he had only met a few times, after experiencing how his mind was consumed by worries over her safety, he began to understand.
He had a gentle disposition, but he wasn't someone who would patiently humor anyone who came abruptly with absurd talk of reading his palm.
He first saw her in a wedding room adorned with red silk, accompanying a friend to fetch the bride.
After completing a jest poem, she glanced at him, then removed the beauty fan hiding her face, revealing a radiant expression.
At that moment, he did not understand what his brief distraction meant.
The laughable thing is, he now realizes his feelings, yet she has already perished at the icy depths of the lake.
Even heaven left him no room.
