My Yearning Heart

The first thing Xie Lin An did after becoming the top scholar was to break off our engagement. At that moment, I was still holding the hangover soup I had prepared for him. Upon hearing his words, I was stunned for a long time, long enough for the rim of the bowl to leave a mark on my hand, long enough for him to frown and softly call out to me: “Ah-Yang?” I came back to my senses at his call, then placed the bowl on the table and gently said: “Okay.” Later, I left the capital for two years. When I returned and saw him again, I respectfully called him “Cousin,” then walked behind him and grabbed the ear of the young general who had just returned from the battlefield: “Bo Ji An! I told ...