"Liao Nanxing! I'll kill you!" Juliana was about to pounce on him again.
Zhou Chunhua held him down: "Let him speak!"
Liao Nanxing casually shrugged: "I know the truth is hurtful, but I don't want to lie to you anymore."
"What if you had switched roles back then? As far as I know, Ms. Zhou was also very outstanding. It was you who knelt in the rain all night before she agreed to give up her studies and marry you."
Less than two months after your marriage, your father fell seriously ill. As your father's son, you were unable to fulfill your filial duty and begged your wife, Ms. Zhou, to take care of your father for decades, becoming a true housewife.
Professor Liao, if I may be so blunt, while I shouldn't doubt whether you had ulterior motives towards Ms. Zhou from the beginning, the fact is that these events have led to Ms. Zhou's current situation.
"If Ms. Zhou had chosen to continue her studies and enter the workforce instead of staying home to care for the elderly, and you had stayed home to fulfill your duties as a son..."
“I certainly won’t end up like her!” Liao Nanxing interjected anxiously. “If I were a stay-at-home dad, I would still have high standards for myself. Does that mean I can’t manage my figure while taking care of the elderly and the family?”
Gu Yao nodded: "Excuse me for speaking frankly, but given Professor Liao's income more than 20 years ago, it would have been impossible for him to send Ms. Zhou to the gym to manage her figure, right?"
Liao Nanxing said awkwardly, "Yes. My income wasn't high at the time. I also had a seriously ill father and a mother with no income, plus car loans and mortgage payments. We certainly weren't financially well-off."
Gu Yao laughed and said, "I think you're quite capable."
Liao Nanxing breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "I also think I'm pretty good..."
Gu Yao raised his hand to interrupt: "I've met many men, but I've rarely seen one who can make such a divination with such confidence."
Liao Nanxing's smile froze on his face.
"You're the one who broke your leg, and after breaking it, you're the one who pushed someone off a cliff. And now that it's broken and ugly, you're the one who has to throw it away. Professor Liao, aren't you being a little too overconfident, NPD?"
Liao Nanxing frowned.
Zhou Chunhua was puzzled.
Juliana said softly, "Well said."
Gu Yao continued, "Let me tell you about the characteristics of NPD, which is value-based mate selection. If a woman has no value to you, you will feel that there is no point in choosing a partner."
So you chose a woman who is easily moved, and then recklessly burned through her youth and body to take care of your seriously ill father and difficult mother, thus achieving your current success. Professor Liao, a teacher should burn themselves to illuminate others; you, on the contrary, burn others to light your own way.
Zhou Chunhua stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
Juliana was so angry that her face turned red and her neck bulged.
Liao Nanxing, in a panic, offered a frantic explanation: "There must be value between people! If she has no value, why should I marry her?"
"Value between people? People are supposed to be equal, right? Then tell me, she has given so much, but you can't even afford to send her to the gym to manage her figure. What value do you have to her?"
You've squeezing out the best years of someone else's youth, and now you're overweight and out of shape in middle age. You've lost your awareness and your career; you've lost everything.
You absorb all the useful value she has, then dump her. You keep attacking her for being worthless and praising your own worth! You have no idea who made it possible for you to be wearing this suit and tie today, and for you to have this affair with your third party. Who made it possible for you? Who made it possible?!
Liao Nanxing began to panic, feeling completely helpless.
He rubbed his hands back and forth on his knees for a long time before saying, "I admit that she made sacrifices in the process. So I still take that into consideration and plan to make some compensation to her."
He took out a bank card and pushed it towards me.
“Here’s 50,000 yuan, which is my compensation to you for all these years.”
"Heh, do you think 50,000 yuan can put a broken leg back on? She gained weight because of you, because you gave up her studies, and because you lost her chance to enter the workforce."
"It's because of you that she had to undergo several surgeries. It's because of you that she became a housewife, busy every day buying groceries, cooking, breathing in cooking fumes, taking care of your parents! Because of you!"
“I acknowledge her contributions to this family, but she shouldn’t have given up on herself while doing so…”
Gu Yao narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze turning cold.
"If you want to cheat, then cheat; if you want to like young women, then like young women; if you want to be an unfaithful man, then be an unfaithful man. Can't you be more realistic?"
You're a complete scumbag! You're a total heartbreaker! Whichever woman becomes your wife, one day she'll turn into the same person Ms. Zhou is now!
If a woman spends her days after marriage putting on makeup, shopping, getting manicures, working out with a personal trainer to develop abs, and getting daily skincare treatments at a beauty salon, she could never weigh over 140 pounds.
"If you give her enough time and money, she can maintain a fantastic figure, skin, and appearance anytime. Then, will she have time to take care of your dead father, your meddlesome mother, and you, this shameless, heartless man?"
"You want it all, you want it all, you want it all, you want it all, who the hell gave you that face?" Juliana grabbed the bank card and slammed it directly into Liao Nanxing's face.
"Twenty years of dedication, and you only want 50,000 yuan? Liao Nanxing, it's your business if you think you're cheap. But my Huahua isn't that cheap! She's leaving with nothing, no questions asked!"
Liao Nanxing picked up the bank card and ignored Zhu Lina.
He looked at Zhou Chunhua and said, "When we got married, you asked for a dowry of 50,000 yuan. Adding that 50,000 yuan to the 150,000 yuan you withdrew from my credit card, it adds up to 250,000 yuan. Who's the greedy one here?"
"Greedy? Yes! You gave a bride price, and you have a house and a car. But is my name on the property deed? Does it have anything to do with me? The car is also in your name, and you've always been the one using it. Does it have anything to do with me? And that 50,000 yuan bride price! When you were getting promoted and studying, didn't you spend all that money on this family and on your parents?"
“People abroad don’t follow these rules, but they still get married and start families. Fine! Considering you’ve been filial to me for 20 years, I’ll add another 50,000. 300,000 is the most I can offer, but I have one condition.” Liao Nanxing took out another card and stacked it together with the previous one.
"Professor Liao, if you keep talking like that, I have to say a few more words." Gu Yao put down his coffee cup.
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