[Next up: The Next Time Love Comes, a second-chance romance] [Blurb for this novel]
Meng Jiashu is asked to look after a girl who's just started high school.
The girl is clever and well-behaved, but a little rebellious.
On her first night at his home, Meng Jiashu tries to establish how they'll get along from now on.
"You can call me Uncle Meng."
With pink hair, the girl sits on the sofa with her legs crossed and arms folded. She raises her bright, striking eyes and looks at him defiantly.
"No. I'm calling you Meng Jiashu."
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Meng Jiashu has always scoffed at love. A fleeting passion brought on by dopamine burns fiercely, and if it leaves behind beauty turned to ashes, so be it. The worst part is when it leaves a mess behind, exhausting and exasperating everyone involved.
Until one day, years later, when Lin Luyan returns home after a long business trip.
Waiting for her are Meng Jiashu and a bouquet of purple thistles in his arms.
The man can barely hide his nervousness.
"Lulu, you awakened the part of me that needed healing and love, and made me whole. Will you let me be your lifelong partner?"
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Later, whenever Lin Luyan brings up Meng Jiashu's declaration of love, she can't help laughing.
When he asks what she's laughing about, she refuses to tell him.
She's laughing because he was the one who made her whole first.
During the bitter winter of her first year of high school, she caught a bad cold and came down with a high fever. Meng Jiashu stayed up all night to take care of her.
She woke in a daze in the middle of the night. Thinking the person sitting by her bed and taking her temperature was her mother, she asked, "Can you only be loved when you're sick?"
"Her mother" said, "No. You deserve to be loved every moment of every day. Go to sleep, sweetie."
* Ten-year age gap. The romance begins after the heroine comes of age.
* A sensitive, attention-seeking girl who's starved for love x a gentle, steady older man
* Both leads are each other's first and only, happy ending, sweet slice-of-life romance
[Advance notice: The Next Time Love Comes]
When they divorced, Xiang Wantang and her ex-husband had the same unusual demand. Neither wanted the money. They both wanted to keep Doug, the little dog they'd raised together for three years.
After much wrangling, Xiang Wantang won custody of Doug, along with several properties and a sum of cash. She also agreed to her ex-husband's request to pay child support for Doug every month.
Later, when their old feelings rekindled, Xiang Wantang asked Su Zhiqiao, "Did you insist on paying me monthly child support for Doug because you wanted to leave us a chance?"
Su Zhiqiao glanced at her, one eyebrow raised. "You're only figuring that out now?"
Theme: Face life's challenges with optimism and pursue your true self.
Parents like this are really speechless. It's you who caused your eldest daughter to become like this.
The male protagonist in this chapter is really a normal, well-educated adult man with a correct view of right and wrong ()
I can really feel the concerns of the male protagonist after watching it. It's so real. Women can easily become dependent on their husband's family in marriage. The female protagonist is obviously very immature now. She doesn't look at the meaning of marriage from her own point of view. She just wants to live a stable life like other people's marriages. To be honest, if the male protagonist compromises and they get married so early, it is difficult to guarantee that the female protagonist will not become like the male protagonist in the end. The female protagonist may be growing up, but her maturity level is really far behind that of the male protagonist. Her friend who is a top student in high school is the same age as her but much more mature. I can't tell whether the male and female protagonists are worthy of each other. I can only say that in reality, the two of them will be very tired. I personally feel that the male protagonist's non-marriage policy is more in line with many independent women in reality. What they fear is not marriage, but siege.
I have lived in the shadow of my sister since I was a child. My father does not care for my mother... Ugh╯╰
The writing is okay, and some of the points are very good. It will make people think. But there is a very deliberate feeling in the middle. In fact, I feel that neither the male nor female protagonist has achieved true independence and freedom. It does not mean that making some kind of decision that seems to be free from worldly prejudices is independence. And it may be my own opinion. When the heroine is immature, she may indeed need to grow up. But when you understand your own value and realize that love is just love, as the article says, what does it matter whether you get married or not? But the final choice was a compromise between one rationality and another. Not to mention that the heroine did not want to get married later, she had nothing to think about. He just realized that marriage is not absolute. Because when the purpose of marriage is not the so-called external opinions or the so-called life security, marriage is a beautiful expression of love. As for being unable to get rid of marriage, it is often during the marriage process that they care about the opinions of the outside world, their children, and their security. Therefore, based on the author's pure description of love, there is no need to be so resistant to marriage. But between the male and female protagonists, it is undoubtedly a compromise. In fact, I think compromise is a very normal existence. However, in the case of over-emphasis on this independent freedom, this compromise is ridiculous. In fact, I saw from the text that the heroine longs for marriage, maybe a romantic honeymoon, or maybe a cute baby. In fact, I understand that the author may be referring to the kind of love with independent spirit that only needs to go in both directions in many historical or artistic works. Pure love, but in fact, when love incorporates too much sexual rationality, it itself is too fragile, and it is not true love, but a so-called tool and standard to prove and highlight the so-called value. After opening her heart, it's not that she doesn't realize her own value, so she needs the protection of marriage, but that she wants marriage because she loves you. Just like accepting yourself, just like integrating into society and life. It is also a kind of spiritual nobility in itself. The male protagonist is willing to lose for work and other things. Or rather. To make some changes and sacrifices, but not willing to do it for love, isn't this a double standard? Of course, I'm not saying you have to sacrifice anything for love. It all depends on personal choice. Of course, it's best to make a rational choice. However, the double standard under the emphasis on independent spirit in the article is not appropriate. Is it just that your independent spirit is only used to sacrifice your marriage? Or is it used to ask the other half to grow?
I stayed up late to finish reading it. It was so good.
I really like this story, why are there so few comments?
The author is good at writing and I read it without stopping.
What you wrote made me think, so I clicked. I watched it off and on for two days. Come on, author!
36 I can't see it ah ah ah ah ah can the author please help me?