Love Story
A Chinese merchant, who traded along the southern coastal communities of Cebu, and Mindanao during the late 1800s fell in love with a beautiful maiden in Boljoon.
The merchant would anchor his vessel that had sailed all the way from China in the coast of Boljoon , While in Boljoon, he courted a mestiza, a daughter of a town official. The young lovers bore a child.
In the beginning, the China man earned the permission to occupy the lower floor of the house. Years later, while sailing off to other islands, the China man would never to return. He was not heard nor seen again ever since.
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