diagnosis. it forgets everything it is. anger. rage. distance. poverty. the lonely soul is lonely again. love turns to mockery. it dies. it is reborn. worse. lonelier.
“Naivety,” he concedes easily, composed. A forced detachment. “Absurd, isn’t it?”
He’s not a cruel man, he thinks, yet Hua Po’an’s tampering has made him feel vindictive; robbed of his life, and now robbed of his death.
“He did expect you