Miss £3,000 and Her Four Suitors

I am 26 years old this year, and my peers around me are slowly getting engaged and married one after another. In fact, I have always wanted to be single, but when I am alone in a foreign country and so lonely, I wonder if getting married will make me less lonely? But when it comes to marriage, where in the world can you find people who are equally qualified and love each other? The blind date market is nothing more than treating people as if they are goods. I have loved watching romantic works since I was a child. I yearn for love, but I cannot find love in real life. Since there is no such thing, I don't want it, I don't want to get married. Marriage is a choice, being single is also a choice. At the same time, there is no shame in yearning for love at any time.

As Da Da said in the postscript, although I no longer believed in love, I still wrote this love novel containing ideal romanticism, and I was even ashamed of it. But I think maybe it is because reality is too explicit that we like to seek comfort in novels and satisfy our false fantasies. I can't say this is wrong, it's just that it's our instinct to yearn for beauty.

The postscript touched me more than the novel itself. There is no shame in yearning for love, and it is indeed a pity to meet an unlovable person. It is a pity that nowadays, in the world above material desires, we are more accustomed to using symbols to summarize overly complex people and human nature. Reason encourages more women to lower the priority of love, pure love is like a miracle

It's really well written, and it feels very similar to the feeling Jane Eyre gave me back then (a must-read in middle school, haha). In both books, the male protagonist made me feel disgusted from the beginning, but miraculously, I was able to understand some of the actions of the male protagonist in the end, and then the feeling of goodwill and disgust coexisted. Just like so many people in life, I can appreciate each other's strengths and hate each other's shortcomings. It's a wonderful emotional experience. Now fewer and fewer people give me this feeling. The same goes for the heroine. I've read a lot of stories about heroines, and I really can't accept that the heroine is not independent, weak in love, etc. But it's strange. Logically speaking, the story of the heroine being humiliated in the early stage and still finding reasons to rationalize the other person's behavior is really a big deal to me. But I actually read it. I can only say that the author's writing is really good. It made me empathize but I was aware of the limitations of the era. I didn't think it was a useless article. It made me think that the heroine is too inexperienced to be in love and not just in love.

The story is over, I really like this story. Although the male protagonist does have many things that make people want to complain. But this story is a love story, and the inspiration for everything is love. Among the four male guests, only the male protagonist has that kind of love with the female protagonist. Love is not a trade-off, it is not a long-term attachment and never letting go. The love between them was so instant. The male protagonist did not discover the goodness and existence of the female protagonist after more than ten years of companionship. It can be said that the male protagonist was the first person to immediately turn his attention to the female protagonist for no reason. Except for the more than ten years of companionship that made Henry attached, the rest of the people in the town treated the female protagonist as dispensable and came as soon as possible. Go if you have nothing to do, even the old lady only realized how good she was after the heroine left, and the male protagonist knew the heroine the first time he saw her [ burst into tears ][ burst into tears ] and felt sorry for the heroine. The heroine can feel the existence of the hero here, which is a different existence from the past, and even feel pain and happiness. This is something that life and people in the past did not bring to her. And all of this just meets the heroine's requirements for marital love.

After reading the postscript, I somewhat regret my previous comments. If the author will come back to check the comments, my previous cynicism is because I am mean by nature. I wanted to be mean and sneer through the ending, but your postscript was so sincere. Even people of the same age and in the same region can have completely different hobbies and interests, so it is understandable that we like different things. Even so, this is still a wonderful story, a novel that can be read freely, and the author's writing style is really good. Love is not something to be ashamed of. When I was a teenager, I would blush if anyone saw the word "love" in the lyrics I copied. But now I have loved real male stars (faces) and I still love two-dimensional men and women. And true worldly love, I think it is a luxury, and it may require courage and more blindness to achieve it. Being unable to love and being unable to be loved are both status quos. This is nothing. It does not affect my reading of novels.

I even think the postscript is better than the full text

The first time I read this article a long time ago, I was moved. No matter how old you are, everyone has the right to pursue freedom and happiness. I don't think there is any shame in pursuing love. Some people like to die alone after becoming famous. Some people are willing to taste the sweet and sour fruits of love. I don't like the idea that everyone maintains the same boring idea. Homogenization is a terrible thing. This is the author's own article. It cannot satisfy everyone's desired ending. Learn to respect others and learn to respect yourself. Every postscript makes me unable to calm down for a long time, and I also realize that if I don't express my love for the article, others will never know. When I aggressively attack this article, I am also condescending. Yes, love is not a necessity, but some people need love. I like the shining points of the souls of these characters. Regardless of whether the characters are involved in love or not, there is still something moving about the characters. Regardless of whether the author will continue writing in the future or what the situation is now, I also wish you happiness.

From the fairy tales I read before going to bed as a child to the various artistic creations I came into contact with when I grew up, the "love" I described in my heart was "pure" and had nothing to do with money, age or gender. It transcended classes and could not be blocked by life or death. Because of this... As we grow older, "pure love" seems more and more out of reach. Although I still firmly believe that "pure love" must exist, just like fairy tales that end when a princess and a prince get married, I began to have doubts about whether "pure love" can come to me. When the passion is exhausted and the pheromones of love begin to dissipate, are the remaining things that have been polished by life still the "love" that I longed for at the beginning?

Even if we choose to be single, it does not prevent us from yearning for love Readers who have entered this book by mistake, please don't leave in a hurry. Spend your precious 30 seconds and read the first chapter. Ignore this somewhat outdated introduction. Believe me, this is a very good story!