It's been almost three years, and Ye Zhi has never said anything so weighty to me. When she suddenly said it to me, I was overwhelmed with emotion, but I had lost the ability to express myself. I looked down at my feet, and then some unpleasant feelings came to mind again...

After a moment of silence, I finally spoke to Ye Zhi: "You said we are the same kind of people, and I believe it without a doubt... Precisely because we are the same kind of people, I will never let you lose everything."

After letting out a heavy sigh, I smiled and said, "This world has two sides, one is angels, and the other is devils. I'm living on the devil's side, but it's far from the point where I have to fight to the death... So, I still want to walk the road ahead alone. I'm fine with that."

“I think you’re not in a good state. It’s hard for you to face a completely unfamiliar environment alone. In that environment, you’ll split into another version of yourself, even more sensitive and vulnerable than you are now… I’ve experienced all of this firsthand. That kind of excruciating pain is very close to death.”

Looking at Ye Zhi, I seemed to have a more intuitive understanding of the year or so that she had been missing, because what she had just described was her situation during that time.

Just as I was about to say something, she said to me again, "I have something to tell you, it happened to someone I know... it was a difficult choice."

"Um."

Ye Zhi turned around, her back to the railing, and I turned around with her. The snow under our feet crunched under our feet, making the night seem exceptionally peaceful...

"You should have met her before; she's my assistant."

"The one with glasses, or the one without glasses?"

"The one without glasses... She and her fiancé were supposed to get married today, I've already received the invitation... But last week, her fiancé died in a car accident..."

I sighed, "This is the real human tragedy!"

"Yes, the dead cannot be brought back to life, so this tragedy is irreversible... But just a few days ago, my assistant was found to be pregnant again. She has two choices: she can choose to give birth to the child..."

"Her parents will definitely not agree. If she gives birth to the child, it will definitely affect her future love life. No man can accept a woman with a child."

“Yes, this is the outcome that we bystanders can all see… But if she doesn’t give birth, her fiancé will truly disappear from this world completely. If she gives birth to this child, at least it’s a continuation. The child is innocent; he shouldn’t be the biggest victim in this tragedy. He has the right to come into this world.”

I remained silent. I tried to think from this man's perspective: if he knew what was going on in the afterlife, would he really want this woman to have his child?

This is truly a dilemma, and an even greater dilemma for Ye Zhi's assistant.

I finally spoke up and replied, "From a rational point of view, this child shouldn't be kept; but people have an emotional side besides rationality... I believe that they must have feelings for each other to have reached the point of marriage..."

Ye Zhi, unusually, interrupted me. She said when I was only halfway through my sentence, "They have a very good relationship... but the assistant's parents are willing to sever ties with her as a bargaining chip to prevent her from having the child... She hasn't recovered from the pain of losing her husband, and now she's under so much pressure. I'm worried she'll break down... Do you have any good ideas to help her break this deadlock?"

I looked at Ye Zhi, and she looked at me very seriously, as if she really wanted to get a win-win solution from me, and then use it to help her solve her problems.

After a moment of contemplation, I replied, "The best solution would be: if there were a man who could completely accept her and the child, the problem would be solved... But that's really difficult. It requires a great deal of dedication and magnanimity... Your assistant must have consulted you, right? What was your suggestion?"

“I didn’t give her any advice. I just arranged a job for her in France for a year, and she can come back after she gives birth to the child.”

I stared at Ye Zhi in astonishment, speechless for a long time. In my memory, she was an extremely rational woman, but this time she made such an emotional choice... I don't seem to know her that well.

I finally asked her, "What were you thinking when you made this decision?"

“I haven’t thought about it too much. If this happened to me… I would give birth to this child without hesitation… I don’t understand the prevailing values. Why must one start another relationship for the rest of their life? Isn’t raising this child with all my heart a viable path?”

"This...this is indeed a path, but the sacrifices are too great!"

"If it's for the man I truly love... then I have no regrets."

Ye Zhi said those words calmly, but to me, they carried a certain implication... Was she using this matter to advise me?

I said hurtful things to Yang Sisi so she wouldn't suffer with me; Ye Zhi was just trying to tell me that my worries were a bit unnecessary, because when a woman truly falls in love with a man, she is willing to sacrifice everything.

Yes, she asked me out to try and persuade me, so I asked, "Did Sisi contact you?"

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