Chapter 254: Life Is Not Boring At All

"If you had already achieved financial freedom, and didn't have to worry about staying alive, what then?" Ling Feng asked.

Mou Lili thought about it carefully, then smiled: "I suppose I'd just sleep in at home every day."

"Sleep in every day?"

Mou Lili laughed: "The way you put it, I suddenly feel that once one achieves financial freedom, it's actually quite boring. I'm starting to sympathize with you now. But why don't you get married and have kids? Wouldn't having a child give you the next goal?"

"I can't find the right person. To tell you the truth, I even thought about becoming a monk two days ago, but then I discovered those monks are much more ambitious than I am; their attachment to the secular world and the red dust is even deeper than mine."

Mou Lili was amused: "No wonder you came to find me; you really are extremely, extremely bored."

Two bored people continued to be bored.

……

Arriving in Beishi, Mou Lili returned to her apartment alone.

Once home, she took out her phone, wanting to send a message.

Logically speaking, someone who has traveled far should report their safe arrival to those who care about them, yet after taking out her phone, she simply couldn't find anyone to message.

Mou Fu and Mou Mu wouldn't care if she was safe or not; they only wanted to treat her as a cash cow.

Even when she was paying for her boyfriend's medical treatment before, she still had to send money home every month, tens of thousands a year.

Her grandmother didn't have a phone, and there was no landline at home, so that was that; she had already told her grandmother when she left that she wouldn't call unless there was a special situation.

She lay on the bed and opened her QQ photo album.

The phones she used a few years ago had small memory, so she would save her photos there.

There was one album that contained photos of her and her boyfriend together.

Ever since her boyfriend got cancer, they hadn't taken any more photos, so what was saved inside were all photos from the early days.

They had known each other for a long time, starting to date in high school; her entire youth had been accompanied by him.

Two people who were too young were always sweet, accompanied by arguments.

The energy when one is young is truly vigorous; when she was angry, she would disappear, then he would have to find her, and then she would forgive him.

Perhaps she was too starved for love; not only was she suspicious, but she would also package herself as if she were very strong, so one day he said he was tired and let's break up.

At the time, she agreed.

Not long after, he started dating a new girlfriend.

Not long after that, he was diagnosed, and the girlfriend left him in a flash.

In the end, the one who stayed by his side was still her.

It had nothing to do with true love, and nothing to do with infatuation.

Mou Lili just felt that for someone who had been by her side for so long, even if there was no romantic love, there was still familial affection; after all, the two of them had been together since they were young, and they had grown up playing and bickering together.

Thus, when everyone else gave up on him, and even his parents felt there was no need to continue treatment, she exhausted all her abilities to let him live two more years.

On his deathbed, he said he was sorry to her and hoped she would find someone who loved her to start a family; they had no fate in this life, and he would repay her in the next.

Mou Lili looked at the photos for a while and then put her phone down.

In truth, some feelings had already vanished the moment he said they should break up.

The memories he left her were not sweet.

Moreover, he was right to propose a breakup; since the two of them were always hurting each other when together, why stay together?

If it were her who had gotten cancer, would he have stepped forward and spent all his wealth?

Mou Lili didn't think much more about it, and she soon fell asleep.

After waking up, the sky was already completely dark; she glanced at her phone, and as expected, she hadn't received any greetings from her parents.

There was, however, a message from a colleague at the company asking if she could come to work tomorrow, as there were too many things to handle and she couldn't manage them alone.

There was also the bar manager, saying that bar customers had recently complained about not wanting to hear so many love songs, and asking if she could sing more passionate songs, preferably learning from H-country dance troupes to stir up the bar's atmosphere, and suggesting she go up and dance or something.

Mou Lili smiled faintly.

She knew about H-country dance troupes, but she didn't want to sing those songs, nor did she want to pose suggestively up there, dancing those dances full of sexual implications.

Just as she was about to order takeout, a message came from Ling Feng: Eat together?

She replied: Too lazy to go out.

Ling Feng replied quickly: I'll come over; there are restaurants near your place too.

……

Ling Feng looked a bit melancholy this evening; while forking the steak on his plate, he looked out the window: "This life is truly getting more and more boring."

Mou Lili was annoyed by him: "Young Master Ling, if you really feel bored, just find a rooftop and jump off; that would end it all."

Ling Feng said: "That wouldn't be good either; I'm just temporarily lost in the direction of life, I don't want to die."

Mou Lili asked: "Your parents aren't worried about you on this long trip?"

"They don't even know I went on a long trip."

Mou Lili ate her steak, "It seems they have given you full freedom."

Ling Feng said: "It was the freedom they gave me that went too far, creating the unbridled and indulgent me of today."

Ling Feng asked again: "You're still singing at the bar this weekend, right? I'll go support you?"

"Not going anymore," Mou Lili said.

"Not going?" Ling Feng was stunned.

Mou Lili said: "The bar side thinks the songs I sing are too conservative; they want that kind of very passionate music."

Ling Feng said: "Understandable, going to a bar is for indulgence, but you should be able to sing those songs, right? Didn't you sing them before?"

"I did sing them, but I don't want to sing them now," Mou Lili said.

Ling Feng nodded and said: "Follow your heart's decision; just be yourself, no need to please others."

Mou Lili was stunned.

She took a bite of the dessert and smiled: "You are the first person to say that to me."

Ling Feng couldn't help but ask: "Isn't this a basic principle of being a person?"

But thinking about her family's situation, he understood.

Ling Feng added: "Right, since you aren't going to sing anymore, I have a gathering this weekend; would you like to come along?"

"What kind of gathering?" Mou Lili asked.

"Just having a meal with friends; there will even be a pregnant woman there, it's absolutely wholesome."

"Your friends are all very rich, right? Will they look down on people like us?"

Ling Feng said: "Your understanding of rich people is too narrow; you'll know once you go."

Mou Lili told Xiaojuan that she would not be going to the bar to sing anymore.

Xiaojuan and the others were very regretful when they heard, but they quickly found a new lead singer; Mou Lili knew this person, a very young and hot girl who would definitely be able to stir up the atmosphere.

Next, she worked for another two days.

Things at the company just needed to follow the routine; as long as one was serious and careful, one could be a very good corporate slave.

In the blink of an eye, it was Saturday, and Ling Feng came to pick her up that day.

She dressed up specially: light makeup, a light-colored dress, and her hair tied up into a bun.