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1352 爱 Love Time Bank. User 2618281119k WordsCompleted 2Reads8.6Score—Shelves

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Four stories that make you suddenly fall silent while laughing. Have you ever thought about it - if feelings could be deposited in a bank and calculated interest like money, would you save the most precious memories or let them live in this moment? If there was a pair of headphones that allowed you to hear what everyone was saying, would you be happy or regretful after wearing it? If you could travel to a parallel universe and see your life with the same person in all possibilities, would you be more sure of your choice, or would you completely lose the ability to choose? If there was an insurance company that would guarantee "breakup" - it would compensate you 100 times in the event of a breakup, would you get back together first and then leave in order to settle the claim? These four questions are hidden in the four stories we just told. The story has been successfully published on Tomato Books. You only need to enter the story name to search, and you can be the first to read it for free 30%. Each chapter has more than 20,000 words, which is enough for you to read from dusk to late night, from late night to dawn, and from dawn to late for work. The names of the four stories are: "Love Time Bank" "Mind Reading Dating Disaster" "Multiverse Dating" "Emotional Repair Insurance Company" They are independent of each other, you can start with any one. But if you read all four articles, you will find that they are actually talking about the same thing - the unspeakable emotional dilemmas of modern people are packed into four absurd shells, like four capsules with hidden knives in their smiles. --- "Love Time Bank" - Can feelings really be deposited and withdrawn like money? The protagonist of the story, Lin Xiaodong, dropped a coin. The coins rolled into the sewer, and he followed them inside and found a bank three floors underground. This bank doesn't deposit money. It stores human feelings. You can save the excitement of holding hands with your lover for the first time and get an annualized rate of return of 12%. When you withdraw it at maturity, it will be even sweeter than before. You can put the unpleasantness of the quarrel in it, out of sight, out of mind, and take it out when you feel better. You can even mortgage your most precious memories and borrow a "happiness" to fill the hole in the present. Sounds great? Lin Xiaodong thought so too. He saved the little sweetness between himself and Su Qing, carat by carat, and relied on the interest to spend those days when he had nothing to say. Until one day, he found an old man with white hair sitting in the bank lobby. He came every week, took out the memories of sixty years with his wife, sat for a while, and then put them back. My wife has been gone for five years. Until one day, he saw someone lose all memory of a ten-year marriage because they could not repay the "memory mortgage" - they remembered it rained on the wedding day, but they could not remember the sound of their heartbeat at that time. I remember the birth of my child, but I can't remember the trembling feeling of holding that little life in my arms for the first time. Until one day, the bank was investigated. Because too many people forget to love each other in the real world after storing their feelings. The question this story asks you is: When you save all your happiness for a rainy day, what's left of those moments you used to store—those real moments you had with that person? The answer is: You will find yourself sitting in the lobby of an underground bank, clutching a bunch of sparkling Shi Su, but unable to remember the last time you really looked her in the eyes and smiled. If you have ever thought that "I will love you properly when I have time later", this story will be like a basin of warm water, not hot, but enough to wake you up. --- "Mind Reading Dating Disaster" - If you could hear everyone's inner thoughts, would you still love anyone? Zhou Mo, 32 years old, programmer, has been on 47 blind dates and failed 47 times. Then he bought a pair of headphones. This pair of headphones can hear the subconscious of everyone within a three-meter range - not what they "say", but what they "are thinking but will never say". Lin Xiaoxi, the date he was dating, sat opposite him and said with a smile, "You are quite interesting." Came from the earphones: "He looks pretty good, better than the photos. I don't know what his income is. Does he raise cats? What if he is allergic to cat hair... Forget it, let's observe first." Zhou Mo relied on this pair of earphones to accurately hit every good point of Lin Xiaoxi, like opening a love game with a plug-in. Until Senior Gu showed up. The president of the mountain climbing club whom Lin Xiaoxi had a crush on in college. He was sunny, handsome, and had a smile like a god. In the earphones, Lin Xiaoxi's voice changed from "Zhou Mo is pretty good" to "Senior Gu is still so handsome" to "What do I want?" Zhou Mo saw the ending in advance. But the real disaster came when he lent his headphones to a colleague. Fatty Zhao went to listen to the blind date, and when he heard the girl say, "Being fatter makes you feel safer," what he thought in his heart was, "This guy is so fat and has so little hair. All programmers really look like this." Lao Zhang borrowed it to listen to his wife, and when he heard that his wife, who had been married for fifteen years, was thinking, "Marrying him is really blind." Liu Fang borrowed her boyfriend of five years, and when she heard him sending her off from get off work, what she thought in her mind was, "Her best friend maintains such a good figure." The entire company, within seven days, turned into a huge masquerade scene. Everyone knows what everyone is really thinking. Then everyone starts to be afraid of everyone. The sharpest thing about this story is not that it allows you to see how dark other people's hearts are. Let you see that the same dark voice lives in your own heart. That voice that suddenly says "I'm so annoyed" at your favorite moment, that voice that thinks to yourself "Does he want something from me" when someone smiles at you? Is that voice you? Not you? At the end of the story, Lin Xiaoxi listened to it with headphones for three days and three nights, and finally filled up more than a dozen notebooks with all the "surface" and "inner thoughts" she heard. She discovers a truth that crushes her: no one can stand the scrutiny of the subconscious. Including herself. Zhou Mo told her something: "The human mind is like a parliament hall, where there are countless voices speaking at the same time. Some are noble and some are despicable. What finally comes out of the mouth is the resolution formed by these voices after debate and compromise. What the headphones let you hear is all the noise in the parliament hall, not the final resolution." If you have ever left someone because you "feel that he is not sincere enough", this story will make you think again - what is sincerity? Is it the one sentence that was spoken, or the ten thousand words that were left unspoken? If there was a machine that could let you hear all the "unsaid", are you sure you want to hear it? --- "Dating in the Multiverse" - If you saw all the possibilities, would you still choose this person at this moment? Song Zhiyi, thirty-one years old, has been on more blind dates than her age. Forty-seven men, forty-seven flaws. She recorded everything in EXCEL, including age, income, education, zodiac sign, blood type, and reasons for the breakup. The column on reasons for breaking up is extremely rich in content: "Stop your mouth while eating," "Put your chopsticks vertically like incense," "Fall asleep while watching "Titanic,"" and "Try to flirt with six girls at the same time and text them 'You are the most special.'" Her best friend Fang Tang works in the Institute of Physics. Fang Tang told her: We have invented a machine that allows consciousness to travel to a parallel universe and experience life after "if you choose that person." Song Zhiyi lay down in it. She went to the universe where she married Zhang Boran (the Aquaman). In that universe, Zhang Boran made coffee every morning, squatted by the bed and poked her in the face to wake her up, and the password on his mobile phone was her birthday. She was loved in that universe for seven whole days, and then she discovered that the reason why Zhang Boran in that universe was not Neptune was because he had a car accident before the blind date and was abandoned by all the romantic partners while lying in the hospital. It was the car accident that turned him into a different person. She went to the universe where she married Zhao Tianming (that daddy man). In that universe, Zhao Tianming had no domestic violence, no cheating, and no gambling. He made money to support his family, and I remember his mother loved cashmere scarves. But he also never asked her what she wanted. She stayed in that universe for three days and was almost suffocated. She went to the universe where she married Chen Yuan (the taciturn IT man). In that universe, they lived in a 50-square-meter rental house, and he still couldn't speak ten sentences a day. But when he was talking to her, he would take off his headphones, turn around, and look into her eyes. In her universe, he didn't do this action. Because in her universe, she didn't lose that temper. She has traveled to countless universes. Three hundred and twenty-seven. In each universe, she is married to a different person. In every universe, there are good parts and bad parts. No universe is "perfect". Every choice has a price. Then Fang Tang told her a fact: "In all the universes that have been explored, you and Zhou Yan - the IT support person who repairs computers in your company - are not together. They are all colleagues. Not one of them." Zhou Yan, the one who handed her the umbrella on a snowy day and ran into the snow by himself. The one she never put into the EXCEL spreadsheet. Because he doesn't meet any of the screening criteria. Because her fingers automatically turned to the "boiled fish" page on the menu. This story will make you laugh and fall into long silence. Because it asks questions you dare not ask yourself: Are the criteria you set for choosing a mate—income, education, family background, hobbies—really what you want, or are they what you were taught "should" want? Where is your person who was never put on the table? Song Zhiyi traveled through three hundred and twenty-seven universes, and finally returned to the starting point, choosing the person who had never entered her options. Not because he's better than every version of man in every universe. It's because when she's with him, she doesn't think about "what would happen if it were another person." He's not the best one. He was the one who made her stop asking "what's best". --- "Emotional Repair Insurance Company" - If you can pay compensation after breaking up, will you still cherish it? Shen Luo was broken up. Ex Xu Nian left a list: expenses paid during the three-year relationship, totaling 34,782.5 Yuan. List items item by item, accurate to the minute. Note: Overdue interest will be calculated at an annual interest rate of 10%. He was staring blankly at the list when the phone rang. "Hello Mr. Shen, we are Fanyu Insurance. We have detected that you have just experienced an emotional termination incident. Your ex sent you a cost recovery list. How do you plan to pay?" Shen Luo said I have no money. "This is exactly what I want to recommend. Emotional repair insurance, with an annual payment of 8,888 yuan. The maximum compensation for a breakup is 100 times. 100 Times 34,782 yuan 5, which is about 3.47 Million. Taking into account your proportion of responsibility, the final compensation is about 1.39 Million." Shen Luo signed the contract. One hundred and forty-seven pages, he didn't read. Only after signing the contract did he know that the policy came into effect today. The breakup happened five days ago. No compensation. But claims specialist Chen Zhibai said: It can be solved. We have a "composite promotion plan". We'll help you get her back. After getting back together, break up again. The date of the new breakup will naturally be later than the effective date of the policy. By then, it will be 1.39 Million, which is a lot. So Shen Luo got a 20-page "Compound Promotion Plan-Shen Luo Special Edition". What you do, what you say, what tone you use, what clothes you wear, and what dishes you order every day are all written down. Warm baby, oatmeal latte, dark circles. He executed the plan as accurately as a Swiss clock. Xu Nian is back. Then Chen Zhibai sent a second document: "Smooth Exit Procedure." How to make her leave again within forty-five days. The cracks planted, the blame shifted, the last straw. Every step is optimized by an emotional algorithm to ensure that the psychological damage to her during the breakup is maximized - the greater the damage, the higher his compensation multiplier. Shen Luo sent this document to Xu Nian. Then they went to Chen Zhibai together and applied for a clause that Fanyu Insurance had never sold: a linkage policy. If they break up, both policies will pay out at the same time. If they don't break up, the premium is refunded in full, plus interest. Fanyu's actuaries worked all night to calculate and concluded that if this kind of clause is widely adopted, profit margins will drop by 40%. Mr. Huo from the business department signed. This is a one-time order and will never be copied. After one year, the policy expires. Shen Luo and Xu Nian decided not to renew their insurance. Chen Zhibai signed the last line on the file: "The emotional foundation has been restored to a self-sustaining level." The most ironic part of this story is that an insurance company that dared to protect everything - including the overlord of the universe, the restart of civilization, and the hairline of celebrities - finally found that the most difficult thing to protect was the decision of two ordinary people to continue to be together. ---Four stories, one story Each of these four stories can be read independently. But if you put them together, you will find that they are like four mirrors, shining on the same thing from different angles - emotional difficulties are often not about "cannot find the right person", but "cannot find the right self". "Love Time Bank" says: Don't put your feelings in the bank. No matter how high the interest rate is, it is still dead. Living feelings should be spent in the present. "Mind Reading Dating Disaster" says: Don't try to know everything that's going on in the other person's mind. Not speaking out some words is not hypocrisy, but kindness. To myself too. "Dating in the Multiverse" says: Don't look for the best solution among all possibilities. The optimal solution does not exist. What exists is the solution you are willing to be responsible for after choosing it. "Emotional Repair Insurance Company" says: Don't buy insurance for your relationship. Insurance covers losses, but feelings are not used to "stop losses." It is used to "not be afraid of losses". --- Reading Guide These four stories have been successfully published on Tomato Books. You only need to enter the title of the story - "Love Time Bank", "Mind Reading Dating Disaster", "Dating in the Multiverse", "Emotional Repair Insurance Company" - and search to get 30% free reading first. Each chapter has more than 20,000 words, enough for you to spend a whole afternoon or night burying yourself in it. You can start with any article. There is no order among the four articles, only resonance. One thing that needs careful reminder: the author of these four stories is Fu Shuiheng. 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