It was already six o'clock in the afternoon, time to get off work. Qiao Chu packed up his things, said goodbye to his colleagues, and walked out of the company building with his bag.
The sky was grey and covered with dark clouds. There was actually a hint of coolness in the weather in September, and the drizzle fell from the sky like thin silver threads.
The rain started suddenly. Qiao Chu went out this morning without an umbrella. She could only hold her handbag on her head and try her best to keep her hair and face from getting wet. She couldn't take care of other things. Fortunately, her destination was only two blocks away from here.
After quickening her pace and walking for less than ten minutes, Qiao Chu arrived at the "Fu Ji" tea restaurant where she had an appointment with her boyfriend.
She pushed the door open and shook off the rain on her body. Fortunately, the rain was not heavy, and only the surface of her clothes was slightly wet.
She looked around and soon saw her boyfriend sitting in the window seat, then walked over there.
"Sorry, have you been waiting for so long?"
"Why are you here just now!" The man opposite looked extremely impatient.
"I rushed here as soon as I got off work, so I wasn't delayed..." Qiao Chu explained.
"Okay, okay, stop talking. I'm in a hurry." The man interrupted her and looked at the watch on his wrist. "I have something else to do later. Let's not beat around the bush. I asked you out today just to tell you that we should break up."
separate?
The news came too suddenly, and Qiao Chu didn't react for a while. "Break up?" She was full of confusion.
"Yes, let's break up."
The man repeated it again, his tone very firm, as if he had made the decision long ago and there was absolutely no room for maneuver.
"Why?"
Aren’t you guys getting along just fine? Why did he suddenly propose to break up? Qiao Chu was not mentally prepared at all.
"We are not suitable." The man gave his reason.
"Not suitable?" You've been dating for almost two years and now you're finding it's not suitable? Qiao Chu sneered and asked, "Isn't it because you have a new love? Now that we've come to this point, there's no need to lie to me anymore. We're all adults now, so isn't it better to be honest with yourself and others?"
A colleague once told her that she saw her boyfriend and a woman hugging each other as they walked into a hotel, and it seemed that their relationship was definitely not just an ordinary one. She originally thought it was a misunderstanding. Her boyfriend was an honest man, and he should have been at work at that time. Unexpectedly... it turned out to be true...
The man didn't expect her to know about this, and he was speechless and guilty. However, when he thought about the fact that he would no longer have any relationship with this woman, he became confident and said, "Yes, you are right. I have a new love, but so what? Weiwei is gentle, beautiful, and considerate. She is a hundred times, a thousand times, and ten thousand times better than you. You can't compare to her at all. Should I choose you instead of her?"
He still had some unsatisfied thoughts, and continued, "Why don't you take a look at yourself? What are your looks, figure, education, job, and family background? Would I choose you if I had no other choice?"
Qiao Chu found it ridiculous to see the frustrated man in front of her launching a barrage of personal attacks on her. She never expected that his usual honest and reliable appearance was all a disguise. After he tore off his hypocritical mask, his true face turned out to be so ugly.
"It's okay to be ugly, but you're also pretending to be innocent! We've been dating for two years, but you only hold my hand and won't even let me touch your mouth. I don't care about your slate-like body, but I'm also a normal man, and I have my needs sometimes!"
After speaking out all the words in his heart, the man seemed to feel much better. He completely relaxed and said with a sneer on his face, "I also heard that your mother ran away with someone else when she was young. Who knows if you will inherit her restless genes? I can't afford a woman like you. Being with you is simply a waste of my time!"
After saying that, he left without looking back and without even paying the bill.
Qiao Chu sat in the restaurant for a while before getting up and leaving.
The sky had darkened and the drizzle had turned into heavy rain. The raindrops kept falling like beads that had broken off the string, forming small streams on the streets.
The rain was quite heavy. If it were usual, Qiao Chu would definitely hide from the rain for a while before leaving. But today, she walked out without even hesitating, and her figure immediately disappeared in the rain.
She was already embarrassed enough, so she didn't care if she got even more embarrassed...
Qiao Chu wasn't heartbroken after being dumped by her boyfriend. They met through a blind date and got together because they thought they were a good match for each other. How deep could their feelings be?
She is 25 years old this year and it is time for her to get married. In this society, if a woman does not get married at a certain age, people around her will look at her strangely, as if she is a monster.
Qiao Chu was no exception. When she grew older, she did not encounter the unforgettable love described in novels. Instead, she met her boyfriend through a friend's introduction. Her boyfriend was average in appearance, but he was honest and reliable, and she had no better choice.
The two of them were dating in such a lukewarm manner. If they hadn't broken up today, they would probably have gotten married, had children, and lived an ordinary life.
Actually, if you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with my boyfriend. People go to high places and water flows to low places. Everyone tries to choose the best, right?
Between two options, there is no reason to choose the worse one - that's reality.
Qiao Chu herself had to admit that she was really too ordinary, so ordinary that even a man with such poor conditions would look down on her.
Is her life a failure?
Qiao Chu was born in an ordinary family. Her father was a construction worker on a construction site. He occasionally contracted a small project and was always busy outside, working hard to support the family. Her mother was a housewife, responsible for taking care of her and her sister at home.
When she was in high school, her parents divorced. Her mother took her sister away and left her to her father. From then on, there were only the father and daughter left in the family.
She grew up in loneliness and ordinariness.
She has an ordinary appearance, an average IQ, and has had mediocre grades since childhood. She is the kind of person you would never find if thrown into a crowd.
Later, I was admitted to an ordinary university. My university life was uneventful. I didn’t meet any handsome seniors or cute juniors, and I didn’t have a pure campus romance. Four years passed like this. After leaving school, I found an ordinary job and had an average boyfriend...
In these ordinary twenty-five years, there was not a single bright spot worth remembering. Qiao Chu smiled at himself.
Her whole body was soaked, with rain still flowing down her hair which was sticking together in clumps. The shirt she was wearing stuck tightly to her skin, and the high heels on her feet were leaking water like a leaky boat. She looked like a drowned rat.
She was standing at the intersection waiting for the red light, and her miserable appearance attracted the attention of passers-by who were taking shelter under the eaves nearby.
Suddenly, a little girl appeared out of nowhere, ignoring the red light on the opposite side, and ran straight to the other side of the road. In a blink of an eye, she ran to the middle of the road. Unfortunately, a large truck was coming quickly in front of her...
"Little boy, get out of the way!"
Seeing this, Qiao Chu shouted loudly, but her voice was immediately drowned out by the heavy rain. She threw away her bag and rushed over, pushing the bewildered little girl away.
A very dazzling light shone towards her, and she felt a sharp pain in her head, and then -
I fainted...
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