And so time and time again I would surrender my love to you -
Who'd have known that in a moment you'd leave me behind?
Since we are now poles apart, east and west,
How much better if, from the start, we had never met?

- Song of Everlasting Resentment, Wang Jiaoluan


I wished for a man
With a single heart,
That we should not part
When our hair turned white,
Not a bamboo rod,
Swayed by the tail
Of any wriggling fish.
A man with a steady will
Cannot be had for money.

- A Song of White Hair, Zhuo Wenjun