Chapter 154
He could only say helplessly: "I don't have a boyfriend."
"How could there not be?"
"Is it necessary? Many people never fall in love in their entire lives."
What he said was so unexpected that she couldn't refute it.
"Actually, I was thinking too highly of that at the time and didn't even consider this. And I felt..."
"how?"
"It's so cruel. If I loved someone and one day I died, wouldn't it be shameless of me to make her so sad? At that time, many people around me either fell in love freely or were arranged by their parents to get married, have children, and then die young. The whole family is left to their wives to support. Young widows, poor families can't support themselves. At that time, men could just remarry after their wives died, but women were widowed for life. If you didn't know you were going to die, it would be a different story, but knowing that your life was in danger, you still married and had children."
"But you are married too."
"I didn't say I wasn't that kind of person."
Sometimes he was too sincere, which often made her unable to cope with it.
"But I think it's better to disappoint someone who has no feelings for me and I have no feelings for than to disappoint someone I have feelings for."
"The pot calling the kettle black?"
"That's right."
"Mrs. Yi treats you well enough. To put it bluntly, you feel it's better to disappoint someone you don't like than to disappoint someone you do like."
But he added: "But this is just one of them."
"Um?"
He said, "You can't fall in love just for the sake of falling in love."
"Then you haven't encountered it?"
"Maybe. I can appreciate good things when I see them, but I don't have that urge to fall in love."
Wang Jiazhi could also understand it. It was just like the kings and generals in ancient times. They slept with countless women in their lives, but probably not a single one of them was attracted to her.
"At that time, many people thought their parents were old-fashioned and conservative, believing that people should get married when they reached a certain age. But I think they were the same, believing that they should fall in love when they reached a certain age. They fell in love just for the sake of falling in love. In the end, they might just have dated a few more girls and never really been in love. After all, many things in people's minds are the same."
He mentioned that there was a boy who came from a well-off family and was the type who fell in love just for the sake of falling in love. He carefully selected two girls from his circle and gave them the same gift at the same time to see which one would have a chance.
"There's also this, then what?"
"He was stupid. Those two girls were from the same dorm, and neither of them had any feelings for him. They all knew about it when they got home. And soon the other girls knew too."
Wang Jiazhi thought that this person was really stupid. There was no confidentiality between girls when it came to gossip.
"Then what?"
"Then they went to the next dorm to chat and talked about it. The girls in the next dorm took out the same chocolate and gave it to three girls at the same time. The girls wondered if they could find a fourth one."
"Is there really a fourth one?"
"No, only three. Back then, most students were poor, but he was the only one from a wealthy family. The chocolates and roses he gave were expensive. He probably thought that with his romantic ways and his willingness to spend, one girl would definitely agree. So, he dressed up that day and excitedly went on a date, and then no one came."
"Isn't she afraid of all three going together?"
"He made appointments at different times: one at nine o'clock, one at four o'clock, and one at nine o'clock at night."
Wang Jiazhi rolled over on the bed and laughed, saying, "So, he foolishly waited from nine in the morning to nine in the evening, and no one showed up."
"Yes. I even had a bouquet of flowers in my hand. I thanked them all when I came back."
"Men are more narcissistic than women. He must be thinking about how to choose if all three of them like him. Or maybe he wants to have the best of both worlds."
Wang Jiazhi imagined that several girls put roses in a vase, and then ate the chocolate given by the man while laughing at him.
If Meihui would say, "You don't know..."
Thinking back to the past, she felt a pang of melancholy. But no matter what, they could never go back. They would eventually grow up.
"And then?"
"He lowered his standards. His original goal of finding someone from a wealthy family and pretty, he had to change it to someone from a wealthy family and average looks. After pursuing several, he finally got one who agreed. But it soon fell through. Then, he finally got another, but that also fell through. He eventually got married, by his parents' arrangement. His wife wasn't pretty, but she came from a wealthy family. His love history wasn't exactly romantic, and he himself wasn't particularly happy. Dating just for the sake of dating is such a waste of time."
Wang Jiazhi thought of Huang Lei, and they were also in love for the sake of love.
"You know what? I met a guy who was also in love for the sake of being in love. The girl said that if he could recite "The Goddess of Luo River" downstairs like Shakespeare's play, she would agree to date him."
He was surprised and said, "It's that simple. This girl is really too self-deprecating."
She quickly explained, "No, she's a good person. It's the boy who's too dumb. She knew he wouldn't be able to memorize it, so she teased him like that and made him look bad. It felt so good."
Old Yi thought that these kids were even more naive than when they were young.
Wang Jiazhi was very interested in the stories of his youth. For people of their generation, even if they didn't have any stories to tell, the stories of the people around them were definitely more exciting than books.
She knew he must have more stories, but he just didn't want to tell anyone.
Wang Jiazhi realized that she had strayed from the topic and asked, "So you've never been in love before? I don't believe it."
He said seriously, "Really not. At that time, I still felt that... was more important." He wanted to talk about faith.
"Are there any girls who like you?"
He recounted the story, "At that time, many girls sent me gifts and letters."
"Tell me a few."
"Someone brought a big glass jar full of paper cranes. They were made from the kind of colorful, transparent candy wrappers, about the size of a fingernail. She said there were over 900 of them."
Wang Jiazhi was stunned. To fold that slippery candy wrapper into something that small, one had to cut one into at least two. Folding stars was fine, but paper cranes—over nine hundred of them—was simply unimaginable.
"Then what?"
"Of course I have to send it back."
"So what did she say?"
"Of course I asked someone else to deliver it. If I had gone to deliver it, I don't know what kind of fuss she would have caused. How could someone be so boring?"
What he usually refers to as boredom is childishness and stupidity.
Wang Jiazhi recalled the gifts she had received, which she had also sent back through Zhou Minlin. Speaking of chocolate, someone had actually given her a huge bar, enough for several people.
"besides……"
"Um?"
"One of them wrote me a very long letter."
"How long is it?"
"It's as thick as a copy of Zizhi Tongjian."
"Forehead……"
"I gave it back to her, and he put it back in my desk the next day."
"Then what."
"Of course I put it back on her desk. But she put it back in again."
"Have you seen it?"
"Who would want to see it if it's that thick?"
"What happened next?"
"I used the quilt cover to practice calligraphy."
"Forehead……"
"Can't you be more normal and not so fanatical?"
“Most of it is pretty normal.”
most……
Wang Jiazhi remembered a sentence from a book: I cannot be an enemy of half of humanity.
"There was a very pretty and quiet girl who would always quietly place a flower on my desk. She was very shy and afraid that I would know it was her."
Wang Jiazhi held his hand and looked at the lines on his palm. The man with these lines on his palm was really lonely.
No wonder changing women is like changing clothes. He just wants to play and doesn't want to put his heart into it.
"But I did make a couple."
"how?"
"Back when I was still working at a newspaper, a colleague had a crush on a girl, but he was too timid to confess his feelings. Then another guy pursued her, but he still didn't dare to confess his feelings, so he just watched the girl he liked get married."
"Um?"
"I'm not that nosy..."
"Um."
She rested her head on his legs while he stroked her hair and said calmly, "That girl is new here, and there are only three of us guys. My colleague and I have been accommodating her, and she hasn't noticed anything wrong with her yet. If it were someone else, I would never have intervened."
"Why?"
"That guy likes to hit people when he's drunk and has a bad temper. I really can't bear to see that girl waste her life on this."
"How?"
"That colleague only dared to draw a portrait of the girl on paper and write a lot of love poems. I secretly published his poems and paintings, signed his name, and showed his diary to the girl."
"Then what!"
"After much thought, the girl decided to date that colleague and they later got married."
She thought about what a bloody and violent time they had in their youth. That drunkard who hurt others must have hated him to death. But the fact that the girl didn't marry that man was also a good thing.
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