Chapter 7. Lover or Marriage Partner
They openly grasped the initiative from the start, while I willingly put on the blindfold of materialism and was led by the rhythm.
After returning home, Ruan Tang sent a message to Brother Xiong: I'm here, good night.
The other party also replied good night.
She guessed that, if nothing unexpected happened, this would be their last conversation.
While in a daze, Feng Xue replied: Thank you, no need to bother.
Ruan Tang rolled her eyes, opened the food delivery app and ordered a barbecue and three bottles of beer. She hesitated for a moment and added two pounds of crayfish.
Anyway, everyone on the Internet says that crayfish is high in protein, so isn’t it healthier than 0 calories?
When Ruan Tang went out to get takeout, she heard the sound of things being thrown in the next room, followed by faint sobbing. It must be that her roommate had quarreled with her boyfriend again.
My roommate Coco is a sales representative at the hospital and a colleague of Ruan Tang.
When Ruan Tang's roommate went back to her hometown to move out, she posted a subletting message on WeChat Moments, and a few days later, Coco moved in. Before that, their only WeChat conversation was: "I accepted your friend request."
Ruan Tang came back with takeout and heard her still crying, so she simply knocked on her door and invited her to eat with them.
Coco's eyes were red, and only a faint line remained on her European-style big eyes. She asked: "Did I disturb you? My boyfriend is too much. He...
Ruan Tang quickly waved her hand to stop him: "Yeah, isn't it? That's too much! Do you want to drink?"
Coco gulped down half a bottle of beer and changed the subject: "We've been here for so long, but this is the first time we've had a drink and chat together like this. I always thought you were really pretty, with big breasts, a slim waist, and an oval face. You know, you have a lolita face and a mature figure? But I think your forehead would be even better if it were a little fuller..."
Facing Ruan Tang, Coco seemed to have completely forgotten the worries that love brought her. Her professional disease kicked in and she began to analyze everything in a logical manner. Ruan Tang also seemed to have gradually put the drama experience of the past few days behind her.
She suddenly understood. Whether it was the big men who were hiding behind the scenes and openly "selecting concubines", Jia Yingjun who was ambiguous towards her and then turned to pursue Xu Wei, or Brother Xiong who talked dirty talk when they met for the first time, they just used their status, fame and fortune to establish their own set of rules about relationships between men and women.
They openly grasped the initiative from the start, while I willingly put on the blindfold of materialism and was led by the rhythm.
But whether it's love or marriage, it's originally a mutually beneficial transaction. She thought that because she knew the rules of the game well, she could sit on the other side of the negotiation table as an equal. What went wrong?
The next day, Ruan Tang drank a large glass of iced American coffee to reduce the swelling. As usual, she put on exquisite makeup and went to work.
When she first came to Beijing, she felt a sense of urgency and wished she could meet her true love around the next corner and quickly put herself in the safe called marriage.
However, the number of men she has dated over the years needs to be counted on ten fingers. She is still on the road of searching, but she has gradually become calm.
This is the beauty of this city. As long as you put on your armor and continue your journey, it will always give you the opportunity to start over.
During lunch break, Coco bought a cup of milk tea to thank Ruan Tang for her comfort last night, but saw her sitting at the desk with an apple in her hands.
Coco walked over and waved her hand in front of her eyes, asking: "What? Making a wish?"
Ruan Tang nodded piously and glanced at her sideways: This is called good luck!
Seeing that Coco was still confused, she explained: The horoscope says that I might become temporarily infatuated with someone of the opposite sex this week. I should establish a romantic relationship as soon as possible. Long-term ambiguity may lead to missing out on a good match.
Coco asked again: What does that have to do with Apple?
Ruan Tang, with a look of unteachable incorrigibility, said this was a lucky charm. She put her lucky charm back into the crystal fruit bowl, took out her phone and began to teach: "Let me tell you, this software is very accurate. All you have to do is enter your birth time..."
As she spoke, she reached for the apple, but found nothing.
Ruan Tang stared blankly at the empty plate, muttering: The stars...appeared?
Coco patted Ruan Tang's shoulder, signaled her to look behind her, and asked in a low voice: Will there be any impact if the lucky charm is eaten?
A young man in a white T-shirt and ripped jeans was chewing on an apple and looking around. Seeing the two people looking at him, he smiled and waved: I saw you were busy, so I didn't say anything.
Hello!
Ruan Tang's voice was full of energy and powerful. Coco and the young man shuddered almost at the same time and stared at her with wide eyes.
Coco quietly tugged at Ruan Tang's sleeve, leaned close to her and said: love and peace.
She smiled and asked: "Who are you? How can I help you?"
The boy answered obediently: Zhang Haoyu, I came here to have double eyelid surgery. They asked me to go to the office and wait for the consultation.
Ruan Tang patiently pointed out with a smile: The consultation office is at the end of the corridor, turn right, not left.
Zhang Haoyu stood up and shook the half apple in his hand: "This... Sorry, where did you buy it? I'll buy a few more and return them to you later."
"It's its honor to be eaten by a handsome guy. Come on, I'll take you there." Ruan Tang smiled and made a gesture of invitation.
When she was walking through the corridor with Zhang Haoyu, she suddenly saw a familiar profile flash by.
Ruan Tang pulled Zhang Haoyu and quickly shrank into the corner, half squatting. She bent over to look outside, holding out the corner of her cell phone with the camera, and frantically pressed the camera button.
She cursed in a low voice: "Scumbag! You have a new love so soon!"
Zhang Haoyu leaned closer, looked at the screen, then looked at Ruan Tang who was frowning and staring at the screen while constantly enlarging the photos, and asked in a low voice: Your boyfriend?
Your boyfriend! Your whole family’s boyfriend! Ruan Tang retorted passionately.
"Ruan Tang." The two of them looked up in response. Ruan Tang was stunned and almost sat on the ground in shock.
Because the person arm in arm with Xu Wei's "scumbag ex-boyfriend" was none other than Xu Wei.
"What's going on?..." Sun Haoyu helped Ruan Tang stand up. She pushed Sun Haoyu away, waved at him, and said, "Please go to the consultation yourself. I have something to take care of."
Xu Wei turned her head to glance at Lin Shen and explained: He accompanied me to do AOPT today, and I thought of asking you to have dinner together after it was over.
Xu Wei chose the Chongqing hotpot restaurant that Ruan Tang had been talking about for a long time. Lin Shen considerately placed two dipping sauce bowls in front of them: "Weiwei, I saw you've been having a sore throat lately, so I didn't add the chives. And Ruan Tang, your garlic sesame oil sauce, am I remembering it correctly?"
Ruan Tang pushed the bowl away with a cold face and said lightly: Unfortunately, I have to go to work in the afternoon and cannot eat mashed garlic.
Lin Shen seemed not to notice her indifference and continued to smile: I was so focused on not giving Weiwei anything spicy or irritating that I forgot about this. I'm sorry.
Throughout the whole process, Xu Wei just looked at him calmly and tried to smooth things over: she would go by herself later, and now she doesn't even eat sesame oil dishes in order to lose weight.
"By the way, Ruan Tang, I haven't told you yet that we are getting married." Lin Shen suddenly said.
Ruan Tang's jaw nearly dropped into the bowl of garlic and sesame oil in front of her. "Really? Xu Wei, are you kidding me?"
Lin Shen said he was on the phone, and after he left with his phone, Ruan Tang immediately bombarded him with questions: "Sister, aren't you sure he cheated on you and broke up with him? Isn't he a scumbag? Are you cursed? Even if you're anxious to get married, isn't Jia Yingjun pursuing you?"
"We have been together for eight years." Xu Wei took a sip of sour plum soup and frowned.
So what? Ruan Tang looked puzzled. "Although you two have a foundation of love, you still have to think carefully about marriage. Look at that movie Scarlett Johansson. They were so in love before marriage, but when they divorced, they wanted to strangle each other. You are beautiful and rich, why do you have to hang yourself on such a crooked tree?"
Do you know why it's hardest to get married when you're 27 or 28? Xu Wei suddenly asked out of nowhere.
Ruan Tang asked: "Aren't you already 32? What's the rush?"
Xu Wei sighed: Because at the age of twenty-seven or twenty-eight, you can see clearly but you haven't let go. When you are in your early twenties, you will choose marriage because of the beautiful fantasy of winning someone's heart. When you are twenty-seven or twenty-eight, you will understand that marriage cannot be maintained by love alone. The gap brought by the truth is unacceptable. And in my thirties, that is, when I was in my thirties, I began to find that marriage was actually a Ponzi scheme. It doesn't matter if there are more lies or less. Ruan Tang, I'm tired. You should know that people like Jia Yingjun are just a whim for me.
Ruan Tang silently pulled out a makeup mirror and faced Xu Wei, shaking her head and sighing, "Hurry up and see if your righteous attitude resembles that of a soldier about to be heroically executed. There are only 0 and countless times a man can cheat. Are you even okay with that?"
"Lin Shen may not be a good lover, but he is the most suitable marriage partner at the moment." Xu Wei threw the spicy beef into the clear soup pot, and the boiling thick white soup instantly appeared with a layer of red oil.
Ruan Tang suddenly remembered what Brother Xiong said. He always made a clear distinction between female companions, sex friends, girlfriends, long-term relationships and marriage partners.
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