Chapter 549: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 549: Three Rules

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

It was past ten o'clock at night; Wang Erhai lay exhausted on the bed, smoking a post-coital cigarette.

After the storm had passed, endless melancholy and self-reproach lingered in his heart.

Actually, he did not want it to be like this.

He wanted to sever ties with Liu Mei Qi.

He himself knew this relationship was not normal.

Continuing would only harm each other.

But he was nonetheless addicted to Liu Mei Qi's beauty and unable to extricate himself.

Liu Mei Qi lay with her back to Wang Erhai, her heart full of guilt.

She even felt she had become somewhat cheap.

How could she let this bastard Wang Erhai succeed again and again?

But since things had come to this, and she had given so much, she could only persuade herself in her heart that no matter what, she must try to love Wang Erhai, try to get along with him for a while.

The friction at the beginning was merely caused by the two being on different wavelengths.

Maybe after getting along for a long time, after understanding each other, there would be no such problems?

Wang Erhai finished his cigarette, stood up, put on his clothes, and asked:

"Want to go downstairs together for a late-night snack?"

"Mm."

Liu Mei Qi responded.

After tossing and turning for several hours tonight, she had expended a lot and had long been hungry.

So the two tidied up a bit and went down together to the Da Paidang near the residential complex for a late-night snack.

Liu Mei Qi specially ordered two dozen oysters for Wang Erhai.

"Eat more."

Seeing this, Wang Erhai couldn't help but laugh:

"Do you think I need this stuff?"

The atmosphere between the two eased somewhat.

"Eating more certainly won't hurt."

Liu Mei Qi said so.

Then she said:

"Wang Erhai, shall we make three rules?"

Wang Erhai was stunned:

"What?"

Liu Mei Qi said:

"If we want to get along well, we must formulate several rules that neither side can break."

Wang Erhai had actually not considered how to get along with Liu Mei Qi long-term; at this very moment, his heart was still thinking about how to cut ties with Liu Mei Qi.

But he still went along with it verbally:

"You're right, so how do you want to make three rules?"

Liu Mei Qi said:

"First, we cannot argue; if we really start arguing, then no matter the reason, afterward you must apologize to me."

Wang Erhai was immediately speechless:

"What do you mean by 'no matter the reason'? Does it mean even if it's your fault, I still have to apologize to you?"

"Yes." Liu Mei Qi replied with a very affirmative word.

Wang Erhai was even more speechless, and couldn't help but retort:

"Is there something wrong with your brain?"

Hearing these words, Liu Mei Qi was immediately displeased, and almost couldn't help but retort back.

But in the end she still held back, because what was most important now was negotiation, not arguing.

"Don't you understand women? What women need most is emotional value, not right and wrong; I'm here to date you, not to debate right and wrong with you. If you don't agree to this condition, then there's no need for us to continue."

"Fine, let's break up then." Wang Erhai blurted out very smoothly.

Liu Mei Qi was immediately stunned, her small mouth slightly open, her head buzzing, unable to speak for a moment.

"Look how scared you are, all dumbfounded, right? Just kidding!" Wang Erhai pretended to be light-hearted, laughing gleefully; seeing Liu Mei Qi's at-a-loss little expression, he felt very satisfied in his heart.

"Don't make this kind of joke with me anymore." Liu Mei Qi said coldly with a sullen face.

But Wang Erhai said:

"It was you who joked with me first."

"How did I joke with you?" Liu Mei Qi said angrily.

Wang Erhai said:

"Whether I am right or wrong, if I argue with you I must admit my mistake; you're sure such an absurd condition isn't a joke? If you're really sure it's not a joke, then our breakup isn't a joke either."

Even a man in the heat of passion still cares about right and wrong.

What's more, Wang Erhai didn't love Liu Mei Qi, so naturally he had to make clear who was right and wrong.

"You simply don't love me, right?"

Liu Mei Qi's heart was broken into pieces.

Wang Erhai very much wanted to retort to her:

"Don't you also not truly love me?"

But he didn't say those words out loud.

He only said:

"Can't you stop being unreasonable? Are you saying that because you killed my parents, we argued over it, and I still have to apologize and admit my mistake to you?"

Liu Mei Qi was speechless.

She was the female sales champion, and she was usually very articulate.

But now facing Wang Erhai, she felt she simply couldn't communicate with Wang Erhai.

The two of them were completely not on the same wavelength.

"Am I talking about right and wrong? I want an attitude from you."

Liu Mei Qi said this.

She indeed wanted an attitude.

She wanted to be favored.

She originally felt in her heart that Wang Erhai wasn't worthy of her; if she was with Wang Erhai and Wang Erhai still didn't favor her, then what was she after? Was she after Wang Erhai's ordinary looks? Was she after Wang Erhai's terrible temper?

"Is my attitude not clear enough now? You want me to make our relationship public, and I made it public right away, what else do you want from me?"

Wang Erhai was very speechless.

He felt his attitude toward Liu Mei Qi was already good enough.

And he hadn't forced Liu Mei Qi to be with him; if Liu Mei Qi wanted to continue getting along with him, then he would continue getting along with Liu Mei Qi, and if Liu Mei Qi wanted to leave, he wouldn't force her to stay.

He had already been so open-minded, what else did Liu Mei Qi want?

"It seems our three rules, not even the first one can reach a consensus."

Liu Mei Qi was extremely sad.

She was almost crying.

"Let's skip this first one, you say the second one, and for the second one you can't give me something so unreasonable."

Wang Erhai said this, with some impatience on his face.

Liu Mei Qi had no choice but to skip the first one first.

"Second, I hope you can give me more sense of ceremony in the future, not like last time when we went to see a movie; I thought you would decorate the venue for a formal confession, but you only gave me a box of gifts, and didn't even say words like 'Are you willing to be my girlfriend?'"

This point was indeed Wang Erhai's lack of consideration, it was Wang Erhai's fault.

Wang Erhai instead made excuses for himself:

"I don't understand what sense of ceremony is; don't laugh at me, from when I was young until now, having lived twenty-something years, I've never even celebrated my own birthday once."

Wang Erhai was telling the truth.

The word "sense of ceremony" was too strange to him.

And doing all those messy things would make him feel stiff and unaccustomed.

But most importantly, it was because he didn't love Liu Mei Qi enough.

His older brother Wang Dashan had also never celebrated a birthday from young to old, and didn't know what sense of ceremony was, but when he first confessed to Du Xiaojuan, he had made full preparations; although he didn't spend much money, he was very sincere.

Only love from the heart would make one put in effort.

And not loving naturally had a thousand and one excuses.

"You can learn slowly; aren't there romantic plots in so many TV dramas and movies?"

Liu Mei Qi said this.

Although Wang Erhai was unwilling and reluctant, he finally agreed:

"Fine then, then you have to give me some time to learn, right."