The Absolute Aesthetics of Emptiness

There are three things you should avoid in a relationship: an office romance, an alcoholic, and an ex-boyfriend. And she ended up meeting a man who checks all three boxes. He said they should keep things casual, no strings attached, but before she knows it, he starts laying his raw, genuine feelings bare. “Let’s have a deep, serious, complicated relationship.” A man with a decadent, seductive appearance who hides a bright, refreshing smile, and a woman who, behind her fiery personality, carries a similar emptiness within. What began as a game turns into something more, as two emotionally empty people become hopelessly entangled with each other. A relationship that offers ruin and salvation in equal measure. What began as a casual connection unexpectedly draws them toward each other with a depth neither of them anticipated. An emotional romance that shifts from funny to painful, and from painful back to funny—as light as a tissue and as heavy as a stone.