On the third day after returning home during the Spring Festival, I had already sat at the blind date table for four hours.
The man opposite is Zhang Yida, a 33-year-old programmer who owns a car and a house, and an annual salary of 300,000 yuan. My mother said that he is the legendary "quality man" and if he misses it again, he will become a bachelor. But this "high-quality man" didn't look at me during the whole process. He kept scrolling on his mobile phone. Occasionally he looked up and asked, "What are your hobbies?"
"Read books, watch movies, and occasionally exercise."
"Yeah." He lowered his head and scrolled through his phone again.
I asked: "What about you?"
"Playing games."
The air froze for ten seconds. I looked down at my phone and saw that my mother had sent a message in the family group: "My daughter is on a blind date, it went well!"
I turned over my phone and continued the awkward conversation: "How many have you dated before?"
"More than twenty."
"More than twenty?" I was shocked. "None of them are suitable?"
He raised his head and looked at me for the first time, with a certain tiredness in his eyes: "There are many people suitable for marriage, but there are none suitable for 'I want to get married'."
"Do you want to get married?"
Silence.
"I don't want to." He picked up the lemonade on the table and took a sip, "But I'm 33 this year, and my family is pressuring me hard. If I don't get married, it won't make sense."
I suddenly felt a lump in my heart.
The man sitting opposite me has a house, a car and a stable income. He seems to be a "hot potato" in the marriage market, but his inner state is exactly the same as mine - he does not "want to get married", but "is being forced to get married."
