Xiao Ming pulled out a tissue and handed it over.
Why are you eating so fast?
"There's nothing I can do, I'm used to it. If I don't eat my fill, my next meal might not be until tomorrow morning."
"Do you often skip dinner?"
"No, sometimes when I get busy, I forget."
Xiao Ming really wanted to say, "You forgot to eat, but what about the child?" But then he thought that he and Xiang Wan weren't at that level yet, and saying that would be too abrupt.
Let's wait until she's willing to talk to him.
Do you think I've changed?
Xiang Wan rubbed her stomach, trying to digest the food she had eaten.
"A little."
That's the truth. Compared to before, she no longer deliberately eats less to maintain her image and then makes up for it when she gets home.
“I think I was so stupid before. I paid the full amount, but I deliberately didn’t eat enough just to save face, always afraid of what others would say. It was not only a waste of food, but also a waste of feelings. Now I understand. People who like you won’t care how badly you behave. But people who don’t like you will always find fault with you no matter how perfect you try to be. So why make yourself suffer? You agree, right?”
The original owner was too insecure and always wanted to present her most perfect self to Xiao Ming. Little did she know that the more she did this, the more deliberate and artificial she appeared, bordering on fake. It was tiring for her, and it was tiring for the onlookers as well. It would be strange if problems didn't arise in the long run.
Xiao Ming, however, was overthinking things. Would Xiang Wan, who had completely let go of her true nature, continue to follow the direction he had envisioned? He became somewhat uncertain.
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