On this joyous day for the nation, Sang Qi actually stood me up.
I had been sitting in the Pig Stomach Chicken restaurant for half an hour, and my repeated calls to his phone had gone unanswered.
During that half-hour, my emotions had been on a roller coaster.
Perhaps he was working overtime, in a meeting, or had some unexpected engagement, but Sang Qi was not the type to leave things unexplained. If something had come up, he surely would have called me, or at least have his assistant notify me.
I even had the wild thought that he might have been in a car accident on his way here, and from then on, the prince and princess would be separated by the barrier of life and death.
I phoned Sang Qi's assistant, who said that Sang Qi had left the office quite a while ago.
Unable to find him, I simply turned on the radio to the traffic channel to see if there had been any congestion or accidents reported.