Men can endure pain, loneliness, and poverty, but they can't quit their longing for the opposite sex.
The renowned Han Dynasty envoy Su Wu, immortalized throughout history, was assigned by the Xiongnu to herd sheep by the Beihai, tending flocks for nineteen years with his Han Dynasty staff in hand, never yielding. What a prominent figure, yet he took a local wife.
Gu Ran had never been to Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu were long gone, and there was no way to know if he could stay unyielding for nineteen years, but he knew that when it came to taking a wife, his feelings were the same as Su Wu's.
——While bathing, Gu Ran was musing over such random thoughts.
After turning off the shower, he felt it was disrespectful to compare himself to Su Wu as he dried off with a towel!
Better to make jokes about Cao Cao and Liu Bei, one 'fond of his wife,' the other frolicking with Su Shangxiang.
Having dried off, Gu Ran put on his clothes.
