Don't Love Me, It Won't Work, Unless You Get a Card to Guarantee Me the Whole Year

My name is Eguchi, an emotional counselor. To put it bluntly, it means chatting with others - listening to them cry, scolding them, and then saying "You are right" at the right time. I have a wide variety of clients: a wife who is angry at her straight husband, a novice who is cheated by green tea in the workplace, an older woman who is so afraid of marriage that she has insomnia... My principle is simple: I only sell emotional value, not myself. It's okay to be ambiguous, but not emotional - how can you collect money if you're emotional? My motto is: bring happiness to girls all over the world and support myself at the same time. Until I met Zhou Shuang, the fitness instructor who gave me a physical test with a straight face. She thought my body fat percentage was high, so she forced me to train and introduced clients to me - from her mother to her ex-boyfriend. She wanted to develop me into a "dedicated emotional consultant". We "help each other": I teach her how to chat, and she teaches me fitness and fair trade. That day she suddenly asked: "If one day, you don't need me to practice physical fitness, and I don't need you to learn to chat, what will be left between us?" I was stunned. Yeah, what's left? It took me thirty years to answer this question. In the past thirty years, the number of people I have helped has grown from twenty-one to countless, and their stories have changed from "What should I do?" To "Thank you, Teacher Jiang." And the woman who asked me changed from "Coach Zhou" to the mother of my child. This is a story about help, about connection, and about love. If you have ever been confused and felt that you were "unworthy" of being loved—— Come in, sit down, and I'll buy you a cup of coffee. --Estuary