Page 10 - beyond-hate

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Amerasian comes and takes her inside a grotto on the mountainside.
They spend the night together, give themselves completely to each
other, and find happiness and peace despite their cursed love.

The story ends with a surprise twist. Five years later, the Amerasian

returns to marry the girl, who is now a beautiful young woman with a
5-year-old son. The simple wedding takes place at an old house
behind the cemetery. Attending the wedding at the invitation of the
Amerasian are the two policemen who were involved in his case.
Halfway through the wedding, the newlyweds take their young son to

revisit the old grotto where the boy was conceived, and from which
emerged the now happy life that they have. However, this
scene is just a dream that plays and replays endlessly inside the mind
of the girl's father. In reality, because the Amerasian never returned, the

old man has become utterly depressed and the girl looks old, haggard,
and lost her mind.

The old man wonders, who suffers more, him or his daughter. Could it
be that when life is full of lies and hate, losing one's mind can make one
happier? But then suddenly one afternoon as the sun is setting, and

they are sitting and brooding, the Amerasian returns and looks exactly
as the old man has envisioned him in his dreams. No one knows if this
is a dream or reality. Or is a reality also a dream in the end?