Chapter 367: Regret is a save point in the game of life that cannot be reloaded

Lin Li could not wrap his head around it.

Had his personal privacy really been leaked to this extent? Could the staff member in front of him also be the daughter of a Baidu vice president? Otherwise, how could she have "doxxed" him in an instant?

Sigh, this information age we live in is truly terrifying.

Facing the complex expression on Lin Li's face, Fu Miao said nothing, only smiled.

Damn it, even if Fu Miao were burned to ashes, she would still remember this ID.

After creating the group chat yesterday, she had @-ed everyone early on, asking them to change their remarks to their real names + gender, and most people were very cooperative and changed them immediately.

Only one person didn't.

— Mr. "Dream Chicken's Tear Bar."

No, no, not a person.

After noticing this situation this morning, Fu Miao hesitated for a long time, but in the end, she didn't have the courage to @ this client individually in the group.

Because if she did, it would make his nickname appear extremely prominently in this silent group chat, very conspicuous, and it would even be right next to her own avatar and nickname.

Just thinking about that image, she didn't dare to think about it anymore.

So Fu Miao just let it be.

Originally, Fu Miao was still wondering what kind of god-tier person could come up with this ID, paired with the avatar of the famous player Dream Tears.

Didn't expect... it was actually this guy.

No wonder he's grown like this and his stats are so high, yet he still needs to go on blind dates. Fu Miao suddenly felt it made sense.

She felt this "Dream Chicken's Tear Bar" was the type of person who, upon hearing a woman say "My father passed away when he was fifty-eight" during a blind date, would slap his thigh and say, "Oh, wow! Then all that social security was paid for nothing."

Ceng Ziang sighed.

He didn't know why he could be so accustomed to all this when he had only met Lin Li for three days at most. In short, looking at the scene before him, he just felt relieved.

But relief is relief; he still hurriedly pulled Lin Li away from the bar to prevent the two from continuing their potential conversation.

Because they didn't intend to strike now, the two found an empty sofa and sat down.

They didn't space out either, but started to size up the activity room they couldn't see fully from outside, continuing to gather intelligence.

There weren't actually many people there right now, after all, it was still early. Including Lin Li and Ceng Ziang, there weren't even ten people, and among them, there were only two women.

But that was normal; there were only about twenty people in the activity group in total.

The event was only announced yesterday, and the time was set for Sunday, so there couldn't be that many people who could come.

However, the event's promotion guaranteed a 1:1 male-to-female ratio, and the situation in the group chat seemed to be the case, so the few women were probably just arriving late.

"Hey you two, I'm Shao Hengkai, shall we get to know each other?"

While the two were sizing up their surroundings, most of the people around were also sizing them up.

When they made eye contact with a few men gathered nearby, one of them thought for a moment, then stood up and took the initiative to greet them.

"Hello, hello." Ceng Ziang immediately stood up to show politeness and introduced himself in return: "I'm Ceng Ziang, and he is Bai Bufan."

"Hello to you too, very happy to meet you." After finishing the pleasantries, Shao Hengkai got to the point: "You two didn't participate in this matchmaking agency's event last month, you're new faces, so are you new members?"

Lin Li suddenly realized.

Annual members can participate in this matchmaking agency's monthly dating events for free, so if they haven't found a partner, it's natural that they would participate in more than one event.

Participating together often, they naturally got to know each other.

The Shao Hengkai in front of them, and the three men behind him who were looking over, should have met in previous events, so they naturally gathered together now.

"You could say that." Although he wasn't, Ceng Ziang knew how to answer to be the least troublesome.

"As I thought." Shao Hengkai nodded upon hearing this, then asked with some curiosity: "However, I see you two are quite young, is your family pushing you so urgently?"

Shao Hengkai himself was already 25, and there was an older brother behind him who was 29—the age limit for this event was 28, but it was no problem for annual members to be slightly relaxed.

"Not really." Ceng Ziang shook his head. "I still have half a year before I graduate from university, but I feel that among the jobs I'm looking for now, there are no women of the same age at all."

"And I don't have other social means, so I think I will inevitably have to go down the path of blind dating later, so I'm here to see the situation and adapt and understand it in advance."

"Just speaking of now, I do have the intention, but I'm not particularly in a hurry."

Shao Hengkai raised an eyebrow: "Oh, I see."

Then he looked at Lin Li with an inquiring gaze.

"I'm not really here for a blind date." Lin Li waved his hand, not hiding it: "I'm just here to accompany him to take a look, I'm not interested in blind dates."

Shao Hengkai narrowed his eyes.

Is that for real? He wouldn't be showing weakness to the enemy, would he?

At this moment, Ceng Ziang added out of the blue: "He is 'Dream Chicken's Tear Bar'."

Shao Hengkai: "!"

Holy crap, for real!

He was just discussing this heaven-defying guy with the brothers! So it was him!

In an instant, the way Shao Hengkai looked at the two became much warmer. One wasn't in a hurry and the other didn't need to be, so they were friends worth making. He enthusiastically pointed in the direction they came from:

"Oh—I see, I understand. Then why don't you two come over and sit with us? We can give you two newbies some advice. If you really plan to rely on blind dates to find a partner in the future, it will definitely be helpful."

Lin Li and Ceng Ziang looked at each other, nodded, and followed him over.

"First, let me introduce these three to you. This is Lu Meng, this is Tang Feng, and this is Wang Baiyu. We are all older than you two. If you don't mind, you can call us brother. If you don't want to, you can just call us by our names."

Shao Hengkai first introduced the three people sitting down to the two.

"Hello Brother Lu, Brother Tang, Brother Wang." Ceng Ziang still did his best to act like a junior.

The three nodded upon hearing this but didn't speak. It wasn't that they were cold or exclusive, but they were looking at Shao Hengkai, waiting for his introduction first.

Shao Hengkai understood and immediately introduced them: "This young man is Ceng Ziang, and this handsome guy is 'Dream Chicken's Tear Bar'."

"Oh—" The three immediately realized, then responded in a friendly manner, smiling: "So it's Ziang and Tear Bar, hello, very happy to meet you."

Lin Li: "(; o_o)?"

No.

I have a name, Bufan, why did you guys just assume I'm called Tear Bar? Little Shao, what the hell is actually stored in your brain!

Ceng Ziang: "(; o_o)?"

No.

Why use "handsome guy" as the descriptive prefix for "Dream Chicken's Tear Bar," while mine is just "young man"? Little Shao, what the hell are you implying!

Although the two were dissatisfied, at this critical moment of integrating into the small group, they had to lie on brushwood and taste gall, endure humiliation, and didn't show it.

Endure!

"Brother Shao, have you guys been here for a long time?" Ceng Ziang was the first to ask a question he was more concerned about.

Because staying here for a long time was not a good thing; it meant that this dating event had no effect at all.

If this situation is common, even if Zeng Ziang has a need in the future, he will avoid this shop.

"That's not the case." Shao Hengkai waved his hand upon hearing this, seemingly knowing what Ceng Ziang was worried about, and said with a smile,

"Except for Brother Wang, the three of us haven't been members for long, at most three months. We all met at the last event."

"Brother Wang also said that this shop's resources and matchmaking ability are indeed quite good, and the success rate of matching people is quite high. And the last event we saw with our own eyes, it seems two pairs really did make it."

"This shop should be considered a pretty decent matchmaking agency in Xiling. I had been to another shop run by a grandmother-generation person before, and that was really no good."

The others also nodded, acknowledging this statement.

Ceng Ziang and Lin Li looked at Wang Baiyu, their eyes full of curiosity: "Brother, have you been a member for a long time? You haven't succeeded yet, but looking at your conditions, they aren't bad. May I ask why?"

"It's not that Brother Wang is unwanted, he just simply doesn't want to get married and have children." Shao Hengkai smiled and explained for the twenty-nine-year-old Wang Baiyu, then looked at Lin Li:

"Tear Bar, Brother Wang is also here to slack off. You two should have plenty to talk about later."

Lin Li smiled.

Wang Baiyu heard Shao Hengkai speaking for him, smiled and nodded, then leaned back on the sofa backrest with some helplessness, hugging the back of his head and sighing:

"My family forces me to come every time, I can't not come—"

"But I have absolutely no such worldly thoughts. Whether it's dating, marriage, or having children, each one is troublesome to death."

"Encouraging work while urging childbirth, what, am I screwing the boss?"

"To put it bluntly, I don't think I need to carry on the family line at all. I currently have the mentality of a child, the age of an adult, the body of an old man, and the job of a grandson. I'm already four generations under one roof by myself, what else is there to get married for?"

"My parents want to hold a grandson, as long as I don't call them dad and mom in the future, and change to calling them grandpa and grandma, isn't that enough?"

"I'm even more sensible than those children. Although I'm a bit heavy and they can't hold me, they can experience being held in their grandson's arms, isn't that cooler?"

Lin Li: "!"

Brother Shao is right, he and Brother Wang might really have a lot to talk about.

Lin Li apologized for his previous contempt and immediately left Ceng Ziang, choosing to sit next to Wang Baiyu.

Ceng Ziang: "?"

Shao Hengkai and the others must have been used to it, so they just smiled.

Tang Feng also sighed at this time:

"Brother Wang's mentality is actually understandable. In fact, I'm also afraid. Half a month ago, I actually had one that was close to succeeding, but I found that the other party seemed to only care about my house, car, and asset situation, and also said she hoped to get married as soon as possible."

"It scared me in an instant, fearing that on the day of the wedding, I would also be falsely accused of sexual assault, and all my property would be shared."

"Damn it, in this situation, being able to keep half is thanking the heavens."

Then Tang Feng sighed: "To be honest, this move is really ruthless, and the successful cases have made people panic, making people afraid to act." Ceng Ziang, Shao Hengkai, and others nodded and sighed along.

Who isn't afraid of suddenly suffering such a disaster on their future happy day?

"I've actually studied this point."

And Lin Li, at this moment of despair for everyone, resolutely stood out.

He didn't want Ceng Ziang's desire to participate in such activities to drop to zero after this time; he might need him in the future.

Facing the gazes of everyone, Lin Li smiled lightly:

"I have a plan that can make the Han Dynasty shine again!"

"Everyone, a false accusation of sexual assault is equivalent to a trump card in the hands of those bad women, an absolute nuclear weapon, right?"

"But let's think about it, are there real nuclear weapons in reality? But why is the world at peace, and no one is really worried that a country will suddenly throw a nuclear weapon?"

"The reason is simple. When multiple countries have nuclear weapons, a nuclear deterrence is formed. You don't fear others having nuclear weapons, you only fear not having your own!"

"So, we men only need to have our own nuclear deterrence. I know what everyone wants to say. To be fair, it is very difficult for us to falsely accuse the 'fairies', but have you forgotten? We men have mothers!"

"As long as at key nodes like engagement and marriage, we let the man's mother and the woman's father be alone for a certain amount of time. After that, if the woman chooses to launch a nuclear weapon, then we men can immediately counterattack, and the man's mother can file a lawsuit against the woman's father!"

"As long as this plan is made public, it becomes an unsolvable open plot. Men and women return to a balance of power. Everyone, what do you think?"

"..."

"..."

Ceng Ziang: "(; o_o)?!"

After a brief silence, several people finally reacted:

Tang Feng: "Holy crap!! Genius!"

Shao Hengkai: "What?! It seems it really works!"

Lu Meng: "Awesome, worthy of being Dream Tears' Chicken... Dream Chicken's Tear Bar. Little brother, this move is too absolute!"

Several people expressed their admiration one after another, and the atmosphere became heated again.

"What kind of shitty plan is that."

But Wang Baiyu's voice poured down like a basin of cold water at this moment.

After Lin Li looked at him, Wang Baiyu looked back calmly and shook his head:

"For the woman, this is simply like the electric toy of Miss Ren in 'The Smiling, Proud Wanderer' leaking electricity—she's already 'leaking' with pleasure."

"Not only can she take away the man's money after a successful false accusation, but she can also send her hated biological father in. People would be too happy to be sad. This nuclear deterrence, in my opinion, simply doesn't hold up."

Lin Li: "(; o_o)?"

Hey, no.

"Tear Bar, you are still thinking too one-sidedly. If they can do something like false accusation, how could they care about a biological father?"

After a moment of silence, Lin Li felt self-blame and guilt: "Brother, you are right, it's my problem, this move of mine is still too rotten..."

Lin Li knew that he could learn new things by sitting next to Wang Baiyu.

"Being able to think of this step at your current age is already very impressive. I actually thought it was brilliant at first."

"Tear Bar, this is not your problem, it's that they are too powerful, indescribable, unmentionable, and simply not opponents that we can resist at present."

Wang Baiyu patted Lin Li on the shoulder and comforted him.

"Before 'motherly logic' becomes 'public logic', and before 'screwing mother/daughter' becomes 'flower/flower/public/son', we have no chance of winning."

Ceng Ziang, Shao Hengkai, and others were silenced by Wang Baiyu's ultimate move.

What a desperate situation this is.

"Don't be like this, let me say a heartfelt word to my brothers," Wang Baiyu saw that everyone was silent and smiled, pointing out a way to survive: "I still think, why must men look for women?"

"Can't everyone look for men?"

Lin Li: "?"

No! Mentor? So you were performing Sichuan opera?

Holy crap, do you people with the surname Wang have a saying?

But Lin Li soon realized he had misunderstood, because Wang Baiyu continued:

"If everyone looks for men to live together, two houses, two cars, plus the original bride price money, it's worth a few million scattered, right? Using this money to find technicians together when needed, it can't be spent at all, right?"

"..."

Lin Li widened his eyes, frantically absorbing nutrients from Wang Baiyu.

Stuff it in, stuff all your abstractness in, I want it, I want more...

The others hadn't recovered from the previous silence, and were covered in silence again by Wang Baiyu's shocking proposal. After a long time, Ceng Ziang spoke first:

"Brother, if men look for men, what should those normal women do?"

Wang Baiyu was just about to speak, but heard someone else say the answer in his heart first—

Lin Li: "Become technicians."

Ceng Ziang: "?"

Wang Baiyu: "!"

Wang Baiyu was stunned for a moment, then looked at Lin Li in surprise: "Tear Bar?"

"Brother Wang?"

When the two called each other's names one after another, they realized that their brainwaves were completely connected. They were overjoyed and gave each other a heavy hug.

Ceng Ziang: "..."

Damn it.

How did these two get on the same page?

Become technicians...

Damn, so it's still a closed-loop idea? But then again, Xiling seems to be in urgent need of high-quality technicians, maybe it's not...

Your mother!

What am I thinking in my brain! Why would I agree with this kind of idea!!

"Tear Bar, it seems you also agree, then can you live with me in the future! Brother has worked as a grandson for so many years, and I have a house, a car, and savings! As long as it's not expensive, I can help you pay for finding technicians together!"

After the hug, Wang Baiyu couldn't help but say to Lin Li.

Wang Baiyu had been an annual member of this matchmaking agency for eight months.

Originally, he thought this was just a waste of a few thousand yuan under family pressure. Unexpectedly, today, at the eighth event, he finally experienced what it felt like to have a heartbeat.

He wanted to be with "Dream Chicken's Tear Bar"!

This is the resonance of souls, perhaps they can become soulmates!

Wang Baiyu wanted to be able to write such a diary in the future—

"04.24, went to Tokyo Skytree with 'Dream Chicken's Tear Bar', the gentlest technician in the world is at the top of the Skytree."

"04.25, went to Meiji Jingu with 'Dream Chicken's Tear Bar', someone is working as a technician there."

"04.26, went to Disneyland with 'Dream Chicken's Tear Bar', Disneyland has no technicians, it's very scary, but 'Dream Chicken's Tear Bar' is there, so it's not scary."

"'Dream Chicken's Tear Bar' is the best."

Just thinking about such a scene, Wang Baiyu felt a sense of comfort from the soul level!

"Tear Bar, can you!"

"Brother, look at what you're saying, of course—no! I have a super cute girlfriend! Do you want to see a photo! She's super good-looking, super cute!"

Lin Li grabbed Wang Baiyu's hand, nodded excitedly, and then refused loudly.

Wang Baiyu: "ovo" - "o_o" - "o^o"

"Tear Bar, you are really pretending, I hate people like you the most."

Lin Li, who was scolded, giggled.

After scolding Lin Li in such a painless way, Wang Baiyu... felt heartbroken.

He felt that he would never love again.

Twenty-nine years, he finally had a heartbeat for someone, but the other party was actually a married man... This blow was too big.

Sigh.

If he were ten years younger, and met him earlier than "Dream Chicken's Tear Bar"'s current girlfriend, would the result be different?

Could he accompany him through the red dust, whoring freely, galloping on horses, and sharing the human water spray?

I was born when you were not, you were born when I was old; I hate that you were born late, you hate that I was born early.

Tear Bar, Tear Bar, my Tear Bar...

"..."

Regret is a save point in the game of life that cannot be reloaded.

At this moment, it is the most regretful day of Wang Baiyu's twenty-nine years.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 368 =====