Chapter 917: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 917: Only One Requirement

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Erhai really felt that Zhang Yueran could not possibly take a liking to him; he held no hope in his heart, so that was why he spoke so bluntly.

The current him was a failure — marriage failed, career failed; for a high school female teacher like Zhang Yueran to find him acceptable, that would be a ghost story indeed.

However, at this moment Zhang Yueran looked at Wang Erhai and said something that caught Wang Erhai off guard:

"You're quite frank, not puffing yourself up."

Zhang Yueran had been on blind dates several times; many of the men she met before would intentionally or unintentionally magnify their strengths and conceal their shortcomings.

For example, one blind date partner clearly bought his house with a loan, yet boasted to her that he paid in full.

There was another blind date partner who was clearly just doing small-time business, but claimed he ran a company.

There was yet another blind date partner who was even more excessive — he had no money but insisted on putting on a front, renting a BMW to meet her for the blind date.

When she ate with him, she noticed he kept deliberately showing off the BMW car keys in his hand, so she sensed something was off; later, when she pressed him, the man slipped up — at first he quibbled that the car was a newly bought used car, then said he borrowed it from a friend, and only later admitted he had spent money to rent it.

Zhang Yueran was most repulsed by this kind of insincere man.

If you don't have the conditions, don't put on a show; swelling your face to play the fat man — if it were a naive, innocent young girl, wouldn't she be deceived?

Fortunately she still had some insight, able to catch the wrongness from the other party's words and deeds.

Because she had been on blind dates with quite a few insincere ones, now seeing Wang Erhai so sincere, she instead developed a bit of interest.

"How about we add each other on WeChat first?"

Zhang Yueran suddenly put forward this condition to Wang Erhai.

"Ah?"

Wang Erhai was stunned.

His face showed a trace of astonishment.

It was obvious he completely hadn't expected that Zhang Yueran would actually take the initiative to add his WeChat.

"Don't want to add my WeChat?"

Zhang Yueran asked.

Wang Erhai hurriedly denied:

"No no, that's not what I meant, just... why would you add my WeChat?"

Wang Erhai still hadn't reacted.

By the time he asked this question, he himself regretted it a bit.

He felt like he was a retard.

A girl takes the initiative to add his WeChat — what else could it be for?

Zhang Yueran didn't bother to quibble over these trivial details, just laughed it off:

"I think you're a pretty good person; let's add WeChat and chat first. If we get along, we'll continue developing; if not, we'll just be friends."

She's a very normal person too.

She has no crooked thoughts.

After all, she started working as a teacher right after graduating university.

These years she's been teaching at school, and has had very little contact with those negative energies in society.

"Okay, sure, then I'll scan you."

Wang Erhai hurriedly took out his mobile phone, opened the WeChat scan function, scanned Zhang Yueran's WeChat QR code, and then added Zhang Yueran as a WeChat friend.

After adding, he still wasn't too sure, so he asked one more question:

"I've been divorced — you really don't mind that?"

Zhang Yueran said:

"I can't say for sure; let's get along first. Put it this way: if you bring the bad habits and shortcomings from your previous marriage over to my side, then I'll definitely mind; but if you can learn lessons from your previous marriage and correct your bad habits and shortcomings, then I not only won't mind, I might even be grateful for your past experiences."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Wang Erhai's face showed some incredulity.

He felt Zhang Yueran ought to care a lot about his previous marriage.

Can only say, this is the difference in thinking modes between men and women.

Men toward women value whether the woman is pure, whether she's beautiful; a woman with too rich a romantic history, no matter how beautiful, will create a barrier in a man's heart — at most he just wants to play around; to say marry her home, generally he'd be unwilling.

Women toward men value whether they can provide emotional value, whether they have economic strength, and whether their looks suit their appetite; as for how many romantic experiences that man has had, they don't care too much — even many women feel that a man with multiple romantic experiences is a bonus point, because men with rich romantic experiences know better how to take care of people.

At this time Zhang Yueran spoke again:

"First, let me make clear: I'm someone who's not good at arguing, so the man I'm looking for must know how to handle conflicts in a relationship. You don't have to come coax me, but you must speak reason — you can't verbally insult me at the drop of a hat, and you absolutely can't lay hands on me."

Wang Erhai nodded:

"Rest assured on this, I'm still pretty reasonable."

Zhang Yueran smiled:

"But how do I remember that time in the underground garage when we ran into each other, you not only cursed at your ex-wife all kinds of ways, but also got physical and pulled her hair?"

Wang Erhai's face was full of embarrassment; he could only explain:

"That's because she's a crazy woman, completely unreasonable. You later didn't you also argue with her? And even made a scene at the police station."

Because of that matter, when Wang Erhai went to redeem Liu Mei Qi, he also compensated Zhang Yueran ten thousand yuan.

Zhang Yueran smiled:

"Although I shouldn't speak ill of your ex-wife, but to speak a fair word, she really is crazy enough, completely unreasonable; however, turning it around, your ex-wife became this crazy — are you sure it wasn't you who drove her to it?"

Wang Erhai hurriedly defended himself:

"Heaven and earth as my witness, I never forced her into anything. Her mother is a mental case; she probably inherited her personality — her emotions are very unstable."

Zhang Yueran looked at Wang Erhai and asked:

"Really?"

Wang Erhai looked at her, his gaze not evading:

"Really. If you don't believe me, you can go investigate."

Then he also said:

"I was nearly driven insane. She wouldn't agree to a divorce, wearing me out physically and mentally, to the point I couldn't even run my business properly. Fortunately, later on, she was instigated by her best friend and took the initiative to divorce me. So now I have no requirements for my other half whatsoever — just one requirement: emotional stability."

Zhang Yueran asked again:

"Just that one requirement? Don't you want a pretty one?"

Wang Erhai said:

"Whether she's pretty or not doesn't matter. Just not too ugly. Pretty ones are either hard to serve or fox spirits."

Wang Erhai was speaking from the heart.

The three women he had dated before — whether Zhang Xiaoyun, Liu Mei Qi, or Yao Xueqin — were all quite pretty.

Zhang Xiaoyun and Liu Mei Qi were the hard-to-serve type.

And Yao Xueqin was a fox spirit with a viper's heart.

In any case, none of them were any good.

After experiencing so much, Wang Erhai had instead developed wariness toward overly pretty women.

Now when an overly pretty woman actively approaches him, his first reaction isn't that good fortune has arrived, but whether this woman has ulterior motives.

Zhang Yueran asked:

"Then do you think I'm pretty?"

Wang Erhai looked at Zhang Yueran:

"I'll tell you the truth, don't get angry. Your looks — if judged by my old standards for hiring female sales staff — you wouldn't have made it into my sales team."