A Thousand Vows Are Worth Less Than a Chicken

The Song and Yao families had been close for generations. They had known each other since childhood and grown up together. After nearly thirty years of being as close as siblings, and finding no suitable partners, they finally gave up looking for the true love that "might exist only in Heaven, and rarely be found in this world." With everyone's blessings, they settled for one another and got married. They had no money worries and no housing problems. She was a "lucky woman," and he was "the kind of good man you couldn't find even with a lantern." But the truth of it, for better or worse, was theirs alone to know. "That's just how life is. What more could you ask for?" "Those love stories that move Heaven and Earth, taste sweeter than honey when they're happy, and cut deeper than a knife when they hurt you, are just rubbish people make up to kill time." "People need to learn to be content. If you aren't, and you end up losing everything, it'll be too late to regret it..." Life is always frustrating those who refuse to settle, until they have no choice but to compromise, and then look back and decide that all their naive, ridiculous ideas were brainless nonsense. If you've never experienced something, you doubt it exists. If you can't experience it, you decide it doesn't exist. Vows of eternal love are no match for a chicken. She used to envy her parents' plain but deeply meaningful relationship. She thought that if she just took a step back, everything would open up. Only after getting what she wanted did she finally understand. Being content isn't a reluctant surrender when you can't get what you want. It means that after laughing, arguing, hating, and fighting for what you want... you genuinely like the person beside you, just as they are.