The Promise He Broke

Her sister said men were untrustworthy. She married the most proper man anyway. Three years of promises, three years of devotion. Then at her mother-in-law's birthday banquet, a concubine knelt before her with tea. The husband had known all along - had even agreed. He called it a temporary measure. But she remembered what he had promised before their wedding, and she asked herself: if he could break one promise so easily, what would stop him from breaking the next? The divorce papers were signed without a trembling hand. The elder sister who had been called crazy by the whole capital never asked her to endure. She only asked: do you want to leave? And in the end, both sisters turned out to be transmigrators - one who married the proper man, one who refused to marry at all.