"If you want to force Jiaojiao into an early romance, you might as well be the Queen Mother of the West... or should I say King Father of the West?"
"Whatever it is, unsheathing your sword to stop the flow only makes the water run faster, the more you try to control puppy love, the more it gets out of hand. That's an undeniable truth. They're not in anything serious right now, but with your meddling, they'll start exchanging letters more frequently."
Suizi rubbed her temples.
"Have you read 'Love in the Time of Cholera'? The author Marquez made it very clear long ago. If you separate the two kids, they'll quickly end up like the characters in the book."
Unable to see each other, they correspond with letters, piling all their beautiful yearnings onto the image of the other, falling in love with an illusion, only to find upon meeting that the real person falls short of their imagination, leading to estrangement.