Chapter 210 - 208: A Master Descends

Chapter 210: Chapter 208: A Master Descends

"Break up with him. If you don’t do it now, by the time you start going on blind dates, men will think you’re too old."

"And once they hear you were in a relationship for seven years only to dump the guy in the end, what normal person would dare to marry you? Even if some daredevil decides to, you can bet they’ll be keeping a very clear account of everything."

"Oh, right. When you break up, remember to give his things back. Have some class."

[Returning the items isn’t enough. Just give him cash. Those luxury goods lose their value the second they leave the store.]

[Her family’s worth twenty or thirty million. This little bit of money should be nothing to her, right?]

[Her family only has millions in assets, not millions in savings. She probably can’t afford those luxury items on her own.]

[She’s still in grad school. Any money she has depends on her parents’ whims. She was probably just leeching off the guy the whole time.]

[If she doesn’t return the gifts, the guy should really consider exposing her online.]

"Alright, I get what you’re saying."

"Thank you all for your advice."

"Haha, yes, yes, that’s exactly what I meant." Zhang Zhe couldn’t help but laugh. "You should tell your boyfriend that I’m the one who advised you to break up."

"Just tell him Brother Zhang forced you to break up."

"Let’s see what happens when your boyfriend comes to my stream looking for trouble. I’ll see if I don’t give him some advice on how to set your values straight."

"I’ve been way too nice to you," Zhang Zhe scoffed. "Stop with the scheming and be a decent human being."

"And you’re studying to be a doctor? With your character, I wouldn’t dare let you treat me. I’d be afraid you’d look down on me for the small size of my ’red envelope’."

After being berated and warned by Zhang Zhe, the woman didn’t dare say another word and quickly disconnected.

But Zhang Zhe had no intention of letting her off the hook:

"To some of the ladies in the chat, stop saying things like, ’they’ve been together for seven years, their bond must be deep.’ What are you trying to whitewash?"

"Let me just make one point. If you really like a guy, and you know full well his family isn’t well-off and that he struggles to make money..."

"...would you feel good about accepting hundreds of thousands in gifts from him?"

"Anyway, if I put myself in her shoes, I couldn’t do it. I’d even try to convince him not to spend so much money, to save up so we could have a better life after we got married."

[What a shame, streamer. How about I sponsor your trip to Thailand?]

[Brother Zhang, you’re such a good woman.]

[Isn’t that just like a heroine from a novel? Where can you find a girl like that in real life?]

[They do exist, actually. My mom is like that. She feels for me, knowing how hard I work to earn money. My wife, on the other hand, doesn’t.]

"I’ll edit this call into a video later. Everyone, if you have a moment, please go and drop some likes on it."

"In the future, if anyone asks why you’re reluctant to spend money on women, just shove this video in their face."

"You spend the money, and then what?"

"Anyone thinking of buying luxury goods for a woman should watch this, too."

"Even if a woman knows you treat her well, she won’t hesitate to dump you when the time comes."

The woman from this call was a textbook case.

It was a classic Xiaohongshu ploy:

While dating, find someone generous and good to you. Spend their money without a second thought and enjoy life to the fullest.

Then, when it’s time to marry, or when you feel the man can no longer provide for you, simply swap him out for someone with a better family background to marry.

It’s not just women from wealthy families who pull this move. Women from ordinary backgrounds do it too, except when it’s time to get married, they look for "a nice, honest guy who’s been saving up for marriage."

[Brother Zhang, seeing this kind of woman is making me afraid of marriage. What should I do?]

"There’s no need to be afraid of marriage. Honestly, these types are easy to screen out. You just need to spend more time on Xiaohongshu, and you’ll see."

"These women are constantly on there sharing their schemes."

Zhang Zhe used to look down on Xiaohongshu, figuring that anything written for public consumption wasn’t worth paying attention to.

After all, what kind of respectable person keeps a public diary?

But he later discovered that some women are genuinely shameless and will broadcast every trick they use.

For instance, the classic gold-digging techniques:

[Accept 80%, return 20%] — This proves there was a financial exchange.

[Go public on Moments] — This proves it’s a romantic relationship, not fraud.

[Verbally refuse before accepting] — This "proves" you’re not in it for the money.

[Don’t date a hopelessly romantic, overly emotional type] — This avoids a messy breakup.

[Bring him home for a meal] — This "proves" it’s true love, so you can start gold-digging with a clear conscience.

Any normal guy, after meeting his girlfriend’s parents or friends, would think the relationship is getting serious.

Even after the breakup, he might not realize he was the one being taken for a ride.

If you follow these tutorials, even if you get sued after a breakup, you’ll only have to return a token amount.

Even if the guy does something as drastic as jumping off a building, the woman can just return a bit more money and walk away unscathed.

There’s nothing to be done. That’s just the meta right now.

Zhang Zhe took a closer look at the bullet comments and noticed that the guys in the stream all shared the same dilemma:

If you save money while you’re dating, your girlfriend thinks you’re stingy and breaks up with you.

If you don’t save and spend all your money on her, you’re left with nothing when she dumps you.

It seemed like a Catch-22.

"What kind of women are you guys dating?"

"Are you all secretly suffering this much?"

Zhang Zhe was shocked by their questions. The girlfriends they were finding were just awful.

"If you have a normal girlfriend and she hears you’re saving money, shouldn’t her first reaction be happiness? A feeling that your relationship has a secure future?"

"You’re saving up for your future wife. If she has a problem with that, it means she has no intention of becoming your wife."

"So what the hell are you two still doing together?"

"And what’s this? Someone’s saying his ex-girlfriend told him that saving money would lower their standard of living."

"What gives, man? Were you spending her money while you were saving yours?"

"If so, then yeah, that’s a pretty scummy thing to do."

"But if you weren’t spending her money, how exactly did her quality of life go down?"

Zhang Zhe couldn’t help but sigh as he read the comments. Decent women might be rare these days, but the guys’ ability to pick them was truly abysmal.

After chatting with his audience for a while, he was about to end the stream.

But in his bachelor group chat, a guy suddenly sent him a private message.

"Brother Zhang, I’d like to come on the stream and share some experience with the guys."

If it had been anyone else messaging him, Zhang Zhe would have ignored it.

But the guy who messaged him this time was a true authority.

His nickname in the group was "King of Living Off Women."

He hadn’t attended their last offline meetup because he was at his ex-wife’s son’s 36th birthday party.

Zhang Zhe had heard bits and pieces about him from other group members.

The guy came from a rural family and had, on the strength of his good looks alone, clawed his way into the circles of the wealthy.

He’d been married twice—the combined age of his two wives was 120. He had basically built his fortune through marriage and now owned four properties, two luxury cars, and had millions in savings.

This track record could all be verified through public records.

However, after he stopped living off women and wanted to get married for real, he found he couldn’t, which was why he had joined Old Bai’s group.

If he was the one offering to speak...

Zhang Zhe took back what he’d just said.

"Alright, ladies, we’re not signing off just yet."

"We have a big-timer who wants to come on and give everyone a lecture on how to handle a marriage where the partners aren’t on equal footing, socially or financially."

"In other words: how to live off a woman."