Chapter 209 - 207: No Time to Fool Around With You

Chapter 209: Chapter 207: No Time to Fool Around With You

"But my dad just isn’t satisfied with his job," the woman said, her tone self-righteous.

"Is he in some kind of high-risk position in the construction industry?"

That was the only thing Zhang Zhe could think of. If the man had a job where he was risking his life for his paycheck, then it would be perfectly reasonable for her parents to object on that basis.

After all, her father was a businessman, so the family was probably well-off and would want their daughter’s future family life to be stable.

"Not really. He’s just a manager at a construction site."

"And they’re looking down on *that*?"

"Actually, my dad is also a bit dissatisfied with his education. I’m a graduate student, you see, and he only has a vocational college degree. My dad feels his education doesn’t match mine."

"And as for his job, after I graduate, I’ll be a doctor in the public system. He works for a private company, so his job is also a bit beneath me."

"My family is very well-off, with assets around twenty or thirty million. His family is just an ordinary one, so my parents feel it’s a huge mismatch."

[The gap in their family backgrounds is too big.]

[It really is a mismatch. I feel like the girl’s parents have a point.]

[This guy is probably after her family’s money.]

[If that’s the case, why did they even get together in the first place?]

Zhang Zhe could guess why this young couple got together.

Most likely, it was because the man was handsome and devoted.

Seeing the confused comments in the bullet chat, he specifically asked the woman this question: "What’s your boyfriend’s appearance like?"

"He’s very good-looking. He’s tall, about 1.8 meters, and has a very bright, sunny disposition."

"So when you two got together, it was at least partly because of his looks, right?"

"A little bit, yes."

"What about now? What’s his income like?"

"Right now, his annual income is around two to three hundred thousand."

"Does he have any bad habits?"

"No. His biggest hobby is playing basketball, and I quite enjoy watching him play."

"So... do all you ladies in the stream get it now?" Zhang Zhe looked at the camera and smiled. "This guy has no major shortcomings, aside from his family background being a bit lacking."

"A vocational degree might be considered a bit low, but he earns two to three hundred thousand a year, so he must be a hard worker. As long as he’s not on a blind date with a graduate student, his education level would basically never be an issue."

"However, even though he’s a good guy, my advice is still to break up."

"’The first sword strike after reaching the shore is to slay the one you love.’ You should have done this a long time ago. The sooner you split up, the sooner you stop wasting your boyfriend’s time."

"With his qualifications, he’ll have no trouble finding a partner within his own social class. A guy who’s handsome and can make good money is an absolute catch on the dating market."

Zhang Zhe was sure that this wasn’t the first day her parents had opposed their relationship. But when this girl was still an undergraduate, even if she had thoughts of breaking up, she certainly hadn’t reached the point of seeking advice online.

Being young and not in a hurry was one thing, but the bigger issue was that she had gotten into grad school.

She was still a graduate student, not even graduated yet, and already talking about her future as a "doctor in the public system." Between the lines, she was saying that she and her boyfriend were no longer in the same class.

She was consulting him online just to ease her conscience, so that after the breakup, she could shift the blame to the netizens.

"But we’ve been together for so many years."

"I’m afraid if I break up at my age and start looking again, it’ll be hard to find someone."

[Isn’t this just a case of ’riding one donkey while looking for another’?]

[If she’s talking like this, I’m going to have to DM her boyfriend. Why keep a girlfriend like this?]

[I suspect she was the one who pursued her current boyfriend.]

[So you admit you might not find anyone better? Are you insane?]

"You don’t even have that much confidence?" Zhang Zhe encouraged her. "Break up. You can definitely do it. You’re going to be a doctor in the public system! In ancient times, that’s an Imperial Physician."

"How can an Imperial Physician be with a common laborer from a construction site?"

"But I’m afraid I won’t find someone who treats me as well as he does." The woman seemed conflicted. "The guys I see on the dating market online all seem very pragmatic."

"How good is he to you?"

"Tell us. The audience and I are both very curious. Just how good does he have to be to make you like him this much?"

"He’s just very willing to spend money on me. For example, on my birthday, he’ll give me gifts worth twenty or thirty thousand, like bags and jewelry."

"Things like Chanel, LV, Chaumet... none of it is cheap."

Zhang Zhe didn’t know much about jewelry, but judging from the bullet chat comments, a brand like Chaumet was considered top-tier luxury—the kind that even minor female celebrities couldn’t afford.

The woman said twenty to thirty thousand, which was a conservative estimate. It was probably the average value of many gifts added together.

"How long have you two been together?"

"Seven years."

"Holy crap, seven years?" Zhang Zhe was shocked.

’I thought it was three or four years, but it’s been seven?’

"If he gives you gifts for every holiday and birthday, then all the stuff he’s given you must add up to four or five hundred thousand, right?"

This guy definitely wasn’t just giving one gift a year on her birthday. In a girl’s eyes, that would be considered stingy.

It was probably a constant stream of luxury goods for Valentine’s Day, Qixi Festival, birthdays, and anniversaries, on top of flowers and bubble tea on normal days. In short, small romantic gestures daily, big surprises on holidays.

’A guy with a vocational degree, working on a construction site, eating ten-yuan fast food on a regular basis, and spending all his savings on this woman?’

’They’ve been dating for seven years, and now she wants to break up...’

Zhang Zhe thought for a moment. If the guy was emotionally fragile and couldn’t get over it, he’d probably even consider jumping off a building. Even someone with a stronger will would likely fall seriously ill from the blow.

"It probably isn’t worth four or five hundred thousand," the woman said, shaking her head. "He’s just really good to me. He spends all his money on me."

"But his education is just too poor."

"My parents have met him and think his character is fine. They just want him to change jobs, to try and get a public sector position, but he can’t do it."

"Cut the crap." Zhang Zhe waved his hand at the camera as if shooing a fly. "So what if he did get a public sector job? With the meager salary of a low-level civil servant, he wouldn’t have the money to buy you top-tier luxury goods. You’d break up with him all the same."

"Seven years! Not seven days or seven months! It’s not like he suddenly became unworthy of you. When you were accepting his gifts, did it never cross your mind that he wasn’t good enough for you?"

[Brother Zhang hit the nail on the head. That’s seven years! Seven whole years of his youth!]

[The girl also spent seven years of her youth. You can’t just count it like that.]

[The guy didn’t have any ambition either. He spent all the money he earned on a woman, and now he’s been kicked to the curb with nothing left but receipts from luxury stores.]

[If they’ve really been ’riding’ for 7 years, the guy didn’t really lose out. I’ll DM him and tell him to go all out lately.]

[The guy is handsome, but the girl won’t say what she looks like. She’s probably average-looking. It’s not certain who got the worse end of the deal.]

"Well... people’s opinions can change!" the woman argued defensively. "I didn’t have such a deep understanding of these things before. He loved me and gave me gifts, so of course I accepted them."

"He loves you, but you don’t love him."

"I love him too! Why else would I have been with him for seven years?"

"Wrong, wrong." Zhang Zhe smiled and shook his head. "That kind of excuse might fool a cuck, but it won’t fool a sigma male."

"I don’t have time to play games with you. Let’s be blunt. Right now, you can’t find anyone better than him through normal dating, and since he’s generous with you, you’re just enjoying the benefits for now."

"The moment someone more generous and more outstanding than him pursued you, you would’ve kicked him to the curb in a heartbeat."

"Even now, you’re worried that if you break up, you won’t be able to find anyone better. You have zero confidence."

"But you’re right about one thing. If you don’t break up with him soon, no one in the dating market will be willing to take you on."