303 Sophistry

Yun Yang sighed and said, "The vicissitudes of life are largely unpredictable… He had spent too long in his search for the medicine and perfection of the formula that when he came home, his wife, who had been waiting at home, no longer looked youthful. Her hair had turned gray and she became an old lady, wrinkles and all. No matter how magical the Ageless Crème was, it could not recover her beauty. All that was left to do was to sigh."

"Besides being shocked, he regretted wasting so much time in his futile pursuits. Angered, he actually threw away all of his arduously tested and formulated medicated cream, in favor of keeping his wife company until the end of her days. He did not speak of the medicine anymore. Before his wife died, she held his hand and said, ‘I’ve always stubbornly thought that eternal youth and beauty is a woman’s greatest happiness in her life. Now I know that being able to spend the rest of one’s life with one’s loved one is a woman's greatest happiness!’