Although she was in V Town, some distance from S City, the internet still brought news to her.
He was getting married, a piece of news that had been making Xia Bing somewhat restless lately.
“Damn man! Stupid man!” Xia Bing looked at the man with a slight smile in the computer image, “Smiling, what’s there to smile about, it’s so irritating.”
“This woman is beautiful and a career woman. What do career women do? Aren’t they just workaholics like you? You workaholic, even your wife has to be the same?” Looking on, Xia Bing felt a bit discouraged.
Reunion in V Town
After a long silence, Xia Bing sat in her chair, head tilted back looking at the ceiling, “Xia Bing, you’re really quite boring. How old are you, still playing at secret love? Do you really have the confidence to enter marriage for a man? Do you have the courage to face love? Enough… Xia Bing, you’re still just yourself, a person without courage, without confidence… don’t fantasize about things that don’t belong to you…”
To buffer the emotional distress from these news, Xia Bing decided to go out for a walk.
Thinking of her family, Xia Bing called Aunt Wen, and after confirming everything was fine, she called Mo Yan. Mo Yan complained about why she would go out without even taking her mobile phone…
Xia Bing laughed and said it was to prevent them from interrupting her journey, and finally instructed him to call the landlord if anything happened.
Recently, she had received many “red bombs” from friends, all saying she was at the age to get married. But just because it’s time to get married, should one get married? Xia Bing wondered, isn’t marriage about love? Marriage isn’t like eating, something you do just because it’s time. Some friends’ answers made her both laugh and cry…
Xia Bing remembered a few typical responses. One male classmate said, “The worst unfilial act is having no offspring.” Hearing such an answer, she was amazed – is marriage primarily about continuing the family line?
A female classmate said she needed to “sell herself” while still young, or it would become harder to “sell” later. Though said jokingly, Xia Bing heard the helplessness in her words, brutally declaring reality. Love seemed to have become unreachable.
