Young Master, come drink with me: My heart is so heavy. If I don't have a few drinks and vent to you, I think …
Young Master, come drink with me:
My heart is so heavy. If I don't have a few drinks and vent to you, I think I'm going to get sick.
Traveling abroad, I realized that only us folks from Qinghe are truly honest. I bumped into a heroine in Kaifeng who looked like a celestial fairy. I didn't even dare look at her, but she approached me first, saying I looked honest and she wanted to date me and settle down. I thought I was dreaming!
But after only a few days, she had her junior brother send me a letter, saying she was going to date Escort Leader Zhang from the west side of the city. She said the rules of the Velvet Shade require her to let me know "for my information."
I was baffled. What kind of sect rule is that? I ran to ask her, and she told me not to worry: "Big Zhao, the Velvet Shade rules say we can choose multiple partners, but if there's a new development, we must truthfully inform the old ones. It's out of respect for each other."
I thought it might be a misunderstanding and wanted to try harder, but not even three days later, I got another message saying she was going to date Scholar Li from the south side, again "informed as per sect rules."
I asked around and finally understood. It turns out I wasn't her only partner! Including me, she had five!
Five is fine, I guess, if that's just the Velvet Shade way... I was getting ready for us all to live happily as one big family, but then she weighed things up and said I overlapped with someone else's "type," so she optimized me out!
Young Master, can you believe this?! If you have time, you must come have a drink with me. I really need a heart-to-heart.
Yours, Zhao Dali