DARREN
"Liu GG was 17, a year younger than the legal age to get married. A year was enough for me to make things right. I thought a year was enough for me to convince our society that my outlook on love was legit. Come to think of it, I might have thought that I had some superhuman powers to make everything fall into their place within that one year.... That I could make everything all right. What I didn't know was that I was so wrong! And nobody told me that I was wrong, until our love became irretrievable."
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'Sir, we accept the deal.' I said. Time was running out of our hands. I could barely even let myself think about the consequences. The deal that Mr. Liu Rubel had forwarded was too good to reject. My father and I had been prying for a possible investor in our business for sev
