Miiguel

“She dreamed of a man who wore a plain gray cotton tunic. “What can you offer me?” she asked. “Hardship, loneliness, long-flowing heartache,” he said. She could not see his face, but she liked the sound of his voice: gentle and serious, but with a hint of laughter in it. “That doesn’t sound like a good match,” she said. “Good matches are not the stuff of stories and songs,” he said. “For every pain we endure together, there will be a joy twice as great. They will still sing of us in a thousand years.” She saw that he had changed into a yellow silk robe. And he kissed her, and he tasted of salt and wine. And she knew he was the man she was destined to marry.”
― Ken Liu, The Dandelion Dynasty Boxset