C23 Rueful Pain

Hsu Ziming returned home muddle-headed. Looking at the empty house, his heart twitched in pain.

So it was this kind of pain to have to wait at home alone.

He had never known it to be so painful to wait for a person, nor had he ever known it to be so painful for her.

He thought that once he was married, it would be enough to give her shelter.

What she lacked, of course, was never a marriage