A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in songs and poems and live on beyond their inevitable endings, as Shakespeare’s titular sonnet 18 also suggests. In Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s metafictional essay, a female narrator who wishes to tell the story of a love between two men encounters a polyamorous c...。丈夫出轨,偷养外室。求娶之时,程胤发誓一生一世一双人,绝不纳妾。大婚三年之期,陆云鸢才发现他的外室子已经三岁。程胤逼她接纳外室和私生子,她愤然回了娘家,甘愿和离让位。程胤却自诩深情,不肯放过陆云鸢。陆云鸢假死离开,程胤失去妻子之后追悔莫及。。清道光年间,花旗盗首领郑一专劫洋人走私船只救济贫困。他收养了孤儿张保仔和郭婆带并将其培养成武艺高强的男子汉。郑被害后,张当上了花旗的首领。张继承义父遗志,深受百姓爱戴。林则徐将这一切看在眼里。郭受骗于恶棍邬,刺激张行刺林。张为林的爱国之举所感动,放弃了行刺。郭经过一番周折终于明辨了善恶,在危急时刻赶去支援张抗英之战,林及时赶到,击退敌舰。张谢绝林加入水师营的提议,登上渔船,漂洋过海去实现自己的理想……。