That year, I contracted a strange illness that could not be cured no matter what.
It wasn’t until that night, when the blood moon hung high and my house was festooned with lanterns and streamers, that everything changed. From then on, I had an invisible husband.
It was also then that my mother solemnly warned me that I must remain faithful to my husband and keep my distance from other men, otherwise, it would bring about a great disaster!
In the year I turned nineteen, I broke the taboo, and he… appeared.
