narration

vivid / skillful / colorful

a tale; a story

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

colourful (brightly coloured)

The Tale of Genji (novel by Murasaki Shikibu)

everything

(colloquial) current boyfriend