Chapter 199 - 197: ABC

Chapter 199: Chapter 197: ABC

"Sis, don’t be nervous." Zhang Zhe could tell she was a bit sensitive and tried to soothe her. "The international student circles are different too. The Evergreen Ivy league is definitely not the same as Australia."

"Actually, they’re the same."

"I know what you, Brother Zhang, and the guys in the stream want to say."

"It’s just about international students having wild parties, living together, and having messy private lives, right? Actually, whether it’s in Australia or the Beautiful Country, it’s all the same."

"It mainly comes down to the individual."

"There’s nothing wrong with that statement." Zhang Zhe gave a thumbs-up in agreement.

It was the kind of statement that was always true, so there was no point in refuting it.

’She’s clearly just trying to save face.’

’Her saying this means she either never participated at all, or she just doesn’t care anymore.’

’I can’t quite tell what her specific situation is yet.’

Zhang Zhe prompted her to continue her introduction.

"I was born in ’95, and I’m currently studying in Sydney."

"As for my personal stats, I think they’re pretty decent. I’m 172cm tall, about 120 pounds, and for my looks... I’d say I’m maybe a 5 out of 10?"

"In any case, it’s always been easy for me to date. Guys are always the ones chasing me."

"..."

[Brother Zhang, quick, look! This girl is something else!]

[Host, this is the first time I’ve seen a girl like this call in.]

[Her looks are a bit strange, honestly.]

[I feel like she looks a lot like that wanted criminal’s daughter, the singer... what’s her name again? I forgot.]

[She clearly looks like Xiong Dalei, okay?]

With the comments saying all this, it would be almost disrespectful for Zhang Zhe not to click on the woman’s profile and take a look.

The woman’s first photo was a candid shot of her feeding seagulls in Sydney.

At first glance, she really did look like a mix between Xiong Dalei and Qu Wanting.

Her face was long with a widow’s peak, a look Zhang Zhe couldn’t appreciate, but many celebrities favored it. It was what people in Europe and America considered a "high-fashion Asian face."

The makeup and styling in the woman’s photos also deliberately catered to a Western aesthetic.

She had dyed her hair blonde with big waves, wore blue colored contacts, and drew her eyebrows thin and long...

One of the comments put it well: she had a very classic ABC look.

So, after the woman finished her introduction, Zhang Zhe immediately asked, "Sis, did you only go abroad to study at 30? Are you getting a Ph.D.?"

"I’m getting a master’s in finance."

"I worked for a while, and then an opportunity for an overseas assignment came up, so I came to Sydney to work and further my studies at the same time."

"Okay, so will you return to China after you finish your studies?"

"I’m considering it, mainly for marriage reasons. I’m not getting any younger, and my family is pressuring me to get married."

"I think you’d be better off not coming back," Zhang Zhe said after scrolling through a dozen of her photos, offering his most sincere advice. "In your current situation, if you came back, you could only date down, and a whole tier down at that."

"A woman like you, an A8.5, could only find an A8 man."

[Why doesn’t she just find a foreigner?]

[To be honest, I really can’t appreciate that kind of ABC look.]

[The thirsty guys in the comments are at it again. I think this girl is very good-looking. Don’t Li Wen and Xiong Dalei look like this?]

[She’d probably be very popular in Hong Kong, but forget about mainland China.]

"Sis, you’re a classic case of ’high dating ceiling, low marriage ceiling.’ The boyfriends you’ve had were probably all well-off, right?"

"Mhm, yes," the woman admitted. "Right now, I can take my pick when it comes to dating, but marriage is very difficult."

Zhang Zhe nodded. "Because for a man, the responsibilities he has to bear are different for dating versus marriage."

"Since your family is A8 and can support you staying abroad, it would actually be better for you to find a Liu Zi to live with overseas than to come back to China."

"Why is that?" the woman asked, a little confused. "Is there a difference?"

"The difference is what I just said—the perception of responsibility is different. I’ve looked at your photos, and the feeling I get is that if you could be reborn, you’d want to be born in Europe or the United States."

"Your style tries its best to lean in the ABC direction."

"Anyone who dates you has to consider the question of where you’ll live together in the future. If the man plans to return to China, he definitely won’t be willing to marry you."

"Because one look at you, and it’s clear you want to emigrate."

"I don’t actually want to stay abroad that badly. I’d still quite like to find a guy from back home," the woman explained, a bit defensively.

Her words were enough to scare the system’s intelligence report right out.

[High-Value Intelligence]

[Your matchmaking target, Ren Xiaolan, has extensive dating experience with partners of various nationalities and family backgrounds. Due to the poor sense of responsibility among foreign men, no one has been willing to marry her. She is now considering finding a man from China to marry. The host is a home-grown ’decent guy’ who meets her standards. If you decide to pursue a relationship, be prepared to raise mixed-race babies.]

After reading the intel, Zhang Zhe’s head was full of question marks.

???

’Since when did I become a ’decent guy’?’

’Oh, it must be in comparison to those white guys.’

In that case, yes. Zhang Zhe had to admit, compared to black men who vanish into thin air when their girlfriends get pregnant, or white men who refuse to marry no matter how many kids their girlfriends have, he really was a decent guy.

In fact, most of the guys in his livestream were.

There was no helping it. The ’international server’ was just too far ahead. The women there had been ’awakened’ for over a hundred years.

Take the white feather incident carried out by French women back in the day. If that happened in China today, they could be beaten to death on the spot by hot-tempered men.

But French men already endured that over 100 years ago.

So now, they treat things like marital responsibility as a joke.

Australia has deeper roots with the United Kingdom, so it might be a little better there, but that only applies to their own countrywomen. For an international student like the caller...

You only had to look at the attitude of foreign exchange students in China toward certain female university students to understand.

"Sis, you’ve probably worked in foreign companies for a long time, so you might not be familiar with the dating and marriage scene in China."

Zhang Zhe, in the spirit of ’curing the sick and saving the patient,’ told her:

"In your current state, any slightly traditional Chinese parents who saw your photos would already be thinking about asking the Matchmaker for a refund."

[Brother Zhang, you’ve really got guts to say that.]

[I’m a mother, and I wouldn’t want my son to find a wife like that. She just looks weird.]

[If she were a genuine ABC, that would be one thing, but she’s a ’banana.’]

[In China, people still prefer wives who are ’gentle, kind, respectful, and modest.’ The whole foreign approach doesn’t work here.]

"So what kind of woman are they looking for in China?" the woman asked, a bit impatiently.

Clearly, Zhang Zhe’s answer wasn’t what she wanted to hear. She had been hoping for an affirmation of her qualities, perhaps even some praise.

After all, she worked in finance abroad. Converted to the domestic currency, her annual income was over a million.

"Men in China, and the families behind them, are still looking for more traditional women."

"I’m not saying you have to do laundry and raise kids, but you need to be approachable."

"You, on the other hand, come off as too aggressive."

"And to be honest, a woman in finance with your kind of income would have a hard time finding a suitable match in China anyway."

Zhang Zhe gave her a simple analysis:

"You wouldn’t be able to accept finding someone with a much lower income than you, right?"

"Someone with a comparable income, like a guy in finance, definitely wouldn’t choose you. And their money wouldn’t be attractive enough to you either."

"If you found a rich heir and he asked you to quit your job to manage his family’s finances, would you be content with that?"

"The only ones left whose circumstances match yours are the ’new money’ tech moguls."

"A woman in finance can help add value to their assets."

"For example, someone like President Wang of Yushu Robot. He’s 30 and unmarried. Or others with slightly fewer assets than him. There are quite a few CEOs of companies like that around now. If you could help them in their careers, then it’s possible."

"Brother Zhang, you’re giving me too much credit." The woman’s anger dissipated. She realized Zhang Zhe was genuinely trying to help her analyze the situation.

"I’m just a regular financial drone. I’m not at the level where I can introduce resources to company bosses."

"Then just look for someone where you work," Zhang Zhe said, too lazy to analyze any further. "I know you’re going to say it’s hard to find someone."

"If it’s hard, then lower your standards."

"At least if you lower your standards abroad and end up successfully staying there, you’ll feel better about it yourself."

’Zhang Zhe didn’t say it out loud, but if she were to lower her standards for men back in China, she’d probably hold a grudge about it for the rest of her life. In the eyes of someone like her, could men from China ever be considered the same?’