Ping and I returned to the villa in Patong with the sales agreement we had signed with Vice President Wu... We came to collect our belongings. Logically and emotionally, we should both move out of this villa that had already been sold to Yang Sisi. This high-quality life may have belonged to the former Ping, but it doesn't belong to me...

Yang Sisi just watched me pack my luggage without helping at all. When I asked her to bring back the socks that were hanging outside, she snorted and said to me, "Is this house too small for the two of you?"

"Brother Ping always likes to sit in the swimming pool and pick at his toes. I won't make you feel disgusted."

"Then you should have Brother Ping move out, and you stay... How can such a big house be left unattended?"

I asked with a smile, "Would you like me to be your security guard?"

"Anyway, you're not allowed to move out. If you move to another place, will there still be a swimming pool for you to do your rehabilitation training?"

“I’ve been in Phuket for so long, and I haven’t really seen many basketball courts or football fields, but swimming pools are everywhere. I’m not worried about not finding a place to swim… Don’t worry, we’ve moved to an apartment near Jungceylon, and there’s a swimming pool right downstairs.”

"What's the point of comparing a public swimming pool to a private one? ... Don't move. My dad and I are only staying here for three days. If you leave, we'll have to hire a housekeeper, which will cost us more money. If you move out, you'll also have to spend money... Why do something so uneconomical?"

After a moment of contemplation, I smiled and said, "...I've discussed it with Brother Ping, and we're planning to move the company to Jiangxi Leng, where the apartments are most concentrated. Vice President Wu bought our villa, which has already eased our financial pressure. Now we're just waiting for the opportunity to conquer the apartment market there... We're moving there to make our work more convenient."

"Jungcheong Leng is full of shopping malls, and there are always traffic jams. It's not as comfortable to live here as it is here."

“I know, that’s why I need to move there even more. We can’t waste our time on commuting in traffic… Could you go get me my socks?”

Yang Sisi sighed, "You're destined to have a life of hardship, I'm too lazy to try and persuade you anymore!"

“You’re wrong… I’m fully committed to my career not because I’m inherently hardworking… I just want to achieve the goals I set before I came here as soon as possible, and then leave this place sooner… I can build a career here, but I can’t start a family here.”

"Why can't we settle down here?... Don't think there aren't beautiful women in Thailand, there are plenty of Chinese here!"

"In my eyes, beautiful women who can't speak Chinese are soulless."

“Maybe they’d be willing to learn Chinese for you…” After a short pause, Yang Sisi said to me, half-jokingly and half-seriously, “Seriously, which region’s beauties do you like the most?…Isn’t it said that Sichuan has the most beauties?”

"That's right, Wang Lei can sweep across a large part of the country."

Yang Sisi looked at me, then suddenly changed the subject, saying, "I've only ever heard you mention Wang Lei, but I've never seen what she looks like. Could you show me a picture of her?"

I nodded, then scrolled through my phone's photo album and found a picture of Wang Lei smoking... I don't like women smoking, but there's nothing I can do. Every time we meet, it's after she gets off work, and the two of us go to a night market to drink and chat. She has a habit of smoking when she drinks, so almost all the photos I take of her are of her wearing nightclub attire and smoking a cigarette...

Yang Sisi took the phone from my hand, examined it for a moment, and then sighed as she said to me, "Michael, put your hand on your heart and tell me, purely in terms of looks, does Wang Lei lose to Ye Zhi?"

"Uh... I probably can't compare to Ye Zhi."

Yang Sisi said with a serious expression, "No... From a woman's perspective, Wang Lei's features are even more beautiful than Ye Zhi's... In your mind, Ye Zhi appears driving the most luxurious SUV and is noble and aloof. Her perfect image is something you've created in your mind... Ye Zhi's temperament is indeed better, but in terms of features, Wang Lei is really no less beautiful than her!"

After a brief pause, Yang Sisi said to me with a sigh, "Michael, you are actually someone who is very tightly bound by worldly views. If Ye Zhi and Wang Lei's identities were switched, you might not love Ye Zhi, and you might not love Wang Lei!"

“I have never claimed to be great. I am just an ordinary person. When I was with Wang Lei, I was really not attracted to her. I find it hard to accept a woman who works in a nightclub, so I can only be friends with her.”

"If you were given the chance to choose again, what would you do?"

I've thought about this question a million times in my mind, so I almost blurted out, "If I had another chance to choose... that night at the bar, I would have bought two plane tickets to Dali and taken her with me."

"If you leave by plane, you won't see me and Ye Zhi again. Don't you regret it?"

I stared blankly at the distant watchtower for a long while before shaking my head and replying, "No regrets... because none of us three have had a perfect ending since we met, so it was a mistake for fate to arrange for us to meet... Who would be willing to regret a relationship that has already been labeled as a mistake?"

"Don't you know that there's a word in this world called 'obsessive and unrepentant'?"

"The other side of being stubbornly persistent is being stubbornly unenlightened..."

Yang Sisi and I looked at each other, and she asked again, "If you came to Dali alone with Wang Lei, would you fall in love with her?"

"I don't know. What I dislike is her job, not her as a person... Maybe that would be a different story!"

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