The Chinese has an expression that til this day, I couldn't find a similar expression/phrase in English

we have a word when translated directly means:

"bitter smile" 苦笑

a bitter smile is not truly a smile, nor is it a real forced one. It is one that happens when can't help but have to do a form of curving their lips upwards yet they are full of bitter and angst on the inside. But to the on-lookers, it looks like an odd smile (that's bitter)

but that is too esoteric....

If someone can find Atlantis, I think would be a great place for the pre-happynites. I think there were a lot of pre-happynites there. They were a society full of rich, intelligent inhabitants until they sunk...

*shrug....as they say, onwards and upwards...(in this case, downwards for the Atlantians. LOL)