***
"Why?"
"Because he believes his heart can only accommodate one person. Aside from that person, no one else exists as a woman in his eyes, regardless of whether you're good or bad—it has absolutely no connection."
"How can a man's heart only have room for one woman? In our Arab world, men can accommodate many women. Macy, should I be magnanimous and allow him to love Mai Xiaomai while I just become his second wife, loving him alongside Xiaomai? What do you think?"
Yali sought Macy's opinion.
Macy smiled helplessly, "Someone as esteemed as you should rather have several men attending to you."
"I don't want other men! I only want Joe!"
Yali shook her head and said, "Besides him, I seem unable to see any other man. I only feel my heart race when I see him. Although he humiliates me in all sorts of ways, I still can't give him up. Maybe love is just a kind of self-degradation!"
"Yali, you really are obsessively in love!"
