"Such an extreme situation shouldn't happen in reality." Zhong Yanhua said softly.
"That's right. In reality, no girl would like you just because you helped her. If she does like you, it's not because you helped her, but because you're handsome."
"Girls aren't that superficial. If I met a gentle boy like him, I would fall in love with him."
Lin An shook his head. "You are a special case. You cannot represent other girls. Let's get back to the so-called gentleness. So-called gentleness is helping a girl pick up the oranges that have fallen on the ground. So-called gentleness is wiping the tears from the corners of a girl's eyes when she cries. So-called gentleness is agreeing to a girl's willful request. So-called gentleness is sacrificing one's own interests to help those around you. So-called gentleness is knowing that your efforts will not be rewarded, but will instead be met with the cold stares of the helper and the ridicule of others, but still resolutely helping."
"These are all so-called gentleness, but I discovered very early on that this is a very superficial gentleness, a gentleness that can actually hurt others."
"For example, if you help a girl pick up fallen oranges, and you're a bit handsome, and she's in a period of emotional emptiness, your gentle help could easily lead her to have a near-love illusion, develop a liking for you, and then confess her feelings. If you refuse, you're betraying her feelings. Is that considered gentleness? But if you agree, but you don't like her, and your relationship isn't happy, is that considered good deeds being rewarded?"
Zhong Yanhua was silent and unable to answer.
Lin An continued, "So, this can only be considered the most superficial kind of gentleness. A more advanced kind of gentleness is not to bother girls. As long as you look ordinary, no matter how many gentle and kind things you do to girls, they will just think you are a bootlicker, not gentle. Then a world without troubles will be achieved."
"So you practice this, treating those around you gently, but they only treat you as a bootlicker, not receiving any so-called reward for your gentleness. But you don't care about the reward, and regard your gentle behavior as self-satisfaction. At least your thoughts are clear, right?"
"But you haven't found happiness. They say good people are rewarded. As long as you treat those around you kindly, happiness will come to you. Why do you have to resort to Ah Q-like self-deception to achieve happiness? And it's a false happiness at that?"
"It doesn't make sense, but you can't defy fate. You continue your gentle behavior, and then you discover a major flaw in your theory—as a gentle person, you should help those around you. You don't care about rewards. To prevent others from falling in love with you because of your gentleness, you are ordinary in every way, achieving a world without worries. But you discover that some girls are mentally unstable. The more ordinary you are, the more they like you, and the number of them is increasing. By the time you realize something is wrong, things have already reached a point where you can't handle it."
"As a gentle person, you shouldn't let girls get hurt. You should wipe away the tears from the corners of a girl's eyes when she cries. But when you do this for one girl, another girl gets hurt. When you do this for all the girls, you realize that everyone gets hurt together. You realize that life is so tiring. You realize that so-called gentleness isn't about helping a girl pick up the oranges that fell on the ground, but about pretending you didn't see anything and getting on your bus."
"But you haven't done anything. Can you be called a gentle person? Can you achieve so-called happiness? What exactly does gentleness mean? Can someone tell me the answer?"
"I don't know what the so-called gentleness means." Zhong Yanhua's eyes were filled with tears. "I only know that Lin An, you are very sad and you need me."
This means that Zhong Yanhua will not commit suicide again and will stay by Lin An's side to accompany him.
To this, Lin An's response was just one sentence: "I'm sorry."
Hearing this, Zhong Yanhua didn't turn pale like she did when she was rejected before. Instead, she hugged Lin An tightly: "Even if you reject me, I will stay by your side until you find happiness, even if it's not with me."
Lin An didn't answer. Instead, Ye Ju's AI voice echoed in the room: "Lin An isn't apologizing to you. Lin An is apologizing to someone else. Okay, the matter is resolved. The 29th has arrived, and it's time to wrap things up."
The incident involving Zhong Yanhua has been resolved.
At the same time, the 29th arrived, and the finale of fate also arrived.
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