Up in the sky, at the grand ceremony, Bai Meng prowled around, looking in all directions, and said, "Where's Brother Ming?"
Pei Shuyan swirled the amber liquor in his Crystal Cup and said, "He went off to be vulgar."
Bai Meng immediately refuted, "That's sheer nonsense."
Cheng Cheng took a small sip of fine wine and said, "I just saw Qin Ming and your elder sister gazing into each other's eyes, then vanishing together into the night. I hope it lasts, that they won't be envied by Heaven—deep feelings rarely have long lives."
Bai Meng felt that walking with the two of them, he himself was about to become abnormal too—one had a heart as still as dead water, as if stripped of all worldly desire, while the other was the exact opposite.
And yet those two still felt that they themselves were perfectly normal.
