Chapter 264: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 264: The Curse of Fate's Reincarnation

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"Everyone, let's drink a toast together, Happy New Year!"

Wang Zhanggen stood up at this moment, his face full of smiles.

Du Xiaojuan came to his home for the first time and gave such expensive wine; it brought him honor, satisfying his vanity immensely!

Everyone stood up one after another and clinked glasses together.

Those who could drink alcohol drank alcohol; those who didn't drink alcohol used tea instead of wine.

For example, Li Xiulan and Zhao Lifen used tea water to toast with everyone.

Du Xiaojuan took a small sip, felt a bit uncomfortable, and didn't drink anymore.

Wang Dashan saw this and was somewhat displeased, but it wasn't appropriate to say anything to her face.

This night, he and his father, as well as his Uncle, drank quite a lot of alcohol.

Until past ten o'clock at night, only then did it end.

The home only had three rooms; the Wang Family let Du Xiaojuan stay in a room by herself.

Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai went to stay in Wang Xiaohua's room.

Wang Dashan brought Du Xiaojuan into the room where Du Xiaojuan would sleep tonight.

He closed the door, only then speaking in a low voice:

"Your performance tonight was too insincere; do you look down on my family?"

Wang Dashan had drunk a bit too much, so saying these words was completely emotional, without much thought.

Du Xiaojuan was stunned for a moment, slightly surprised, completely not expecting Wang Dashan to speak to her like this.

She felt that tonight, while interacting with Wang Dashan's family, she had already given the utmost sincerity.

Not only were the gifts she gave very precious, but during the meal, she was also polite and courteous to them, giving them full respect.

How could Wang Dashan still think this way?

She really couldn't figure it out.

"How do I look down on your family? Wang Dashan, is your inner heart a bit overly sensitive?"

Wang Dashan said:

"You just look down on us. My family is poor, my family is dilapidated. Otherwise, why would you push and shove when I asked you to drink? I know you can usually hold your liquor well; you said before that when meeting clients, you could drink over half a catty."

Du Xiaojuan immediately didn't know whether to cry or laugh:

"Didn't I tell you? My period is coming soon, my body feels a bit unwell."

Wang Dashan said:

"Even so, you can't be this perfunctory!"

Du Xiaojuan was speechless to the point of laughing:

"How was I perfunctory? I spent over five hundred yuan taking a taxi to your home alone, and bought such precious gifts for your dad and mom. You asked me to drink and I drank; how was that perfunctory? Wang Dashan, you're insisting on picking a fight, right! I haven't even said anything about you yet; you say I have no sincerity, do you have sincerity towards me? Why are you throwing a tantrum at me?!"

The more Du Xiaojuan spoke, the more agitated she became, and her voice grew louder and louder.

Wang Dashan hurriedly made a "shh" gesture at her and hastily said:

"Don't be so loud; if Dad, Mom, Second Brother, and Third Brother hear, how embarrassing!"

Du Xiaojuan let out a cold laugh:

"I've figured it out. Bottom line, you've always only cared about your face. Being with me initially was probably also for face, right? Thinking I'm pretty, I have a successful career, being with me gives you face, not genuine love from the heart, am I right?"

Du Xiaojuan had also lost her temper.

Today she had rushed over here exhausted, plus before her period she would normally have emotional fluctuations. Wang Dashan didn't care for her emotions but instead nitpicked at her everywhere; she really couldn't endure it anymore.

So she directly confronted him back.

Wang Dashan couldn't say a word for a while.

He didn't deny that initially fancying Du Xiaojuan was because Du Xiaojuan was pretty, Du Xiaojuan had a successful career, and Du Xiaojuan could give him enough vanity satisfaction.

He seemed to have already forgotten how humble he was in front of Du Xiaojuan, how careful and cautious he was, before he got together with Du Xiaojuan.

Or perhaps he actually still remembers clearly; perhaps it's precisely because of the heartfelt inferiority, knowing he's not as good as Du Xiaojuan, that he has to prove he's superior to Du Xiaojuan in every way, needs Du Xiaojuan to give him face, needs Du Xiaojuan to submit to him.

This kind of psychology is actually a very typical psychology of insecurity and lack of safety.

This kind of psychology generally occurs more in girls, but males in the weaker position may also exhibit this situation.

Wang Dashan is currently this kind of situation.

He actually knows doing this is wrong; he's being a bit unreasonable, but he still does it anyway, just to prove his sense of presence.

Actually, there are many ways to prove one's sense of presence, and many other ways wouldn't cause conflict but instead promote the relationship between both sides.

It's just that these ways of handling relationship problems aren't something everyone innately possesses; they must be slowly learned and comprehended in the later growth process.

And what Wang Dashan lacks most is actually the ability to learn and comprehend.

Since childhood, his academic grades were poor, he couldn't be bothered to learn, and his mind was rigid.

Things he hasn't learned, he naturally won't know.

And in the process of growing up, his parents' way of interacting, through constant exposure, also imperceptibly caused a certain influence.

From childhood to adulthood, he watched his parents solve problems through quarrels; to be precise, they wore down problems through quarrels, not solved them, because quarrels can never solve problems.

And this is like a brand, seared into the depths of his heart, neither painful nor itchy.

To the extent that now whenever he encounters a problem, the first reaction in his subconscious is to quarrel, to fight for a breath of pride, to win; if he can't win the quarrel, he falls silent instead of solving the problem.

"Brother, you all stop arguing."

At this moment, the room door was suddenly pushed open, and Wang Xiaohua's deliberately lowered voice came through.

Outside, 【she】 just stood at the door like that.

Wang Dashan looked up and couldn't help but reveal a surprised expression.

He regretted it very much now; why had he only closed the door just now, and not locked it from the inside?

His first reaction was that it was utterly shameful; his second reaction was anger — he wasn't angry at Wang Xiaohua, but angry at Du Xiaojuan.

He felt it was Du Xiaojuan who wanted to argue with him, which caused him to lose face now.

Wang Xiaohua spoke again at this time:

"I originally shouldn't say anything; after all, you are my eldest brother, and by etiquette it's not the younger brother's place to lecture the elder brother, but I feel I still must say something... Eldest Brother, aren't you the one who hates that old man the most? Yet now, your words and deeds, your way of handling things, that sensitive, vain, and fragile self-esteem of yours — they're all like him... Acting like this will only make you follow in that old man's footsteps; not only will you ruin yourself, you'll also ruin Eldest Sister-in-law."

Wang Dashan's inner heart shuddered violently; his heart seemed to suddenly suffer a heavy punch.

His face was full of stunned surprise; his head buzzed.

Only at this moment did he suddenly realize that his every word and action were indeed very like his father.

He was as if fallen into the curse of fate's reincarnation, walking step by step toward the road his father walked when young.

Those things he once hated, disliked, rejected — unexpectedly appeared on him unknowingly.

He seemed to have become a replica of his father.

The most fatal thing was, if Wang Xiaohua hadn't reminded him, he wouldn't even have detected a single trace!