It Rained, but I Never Saw a Rainbow

Gu Yu looked at the message and thought back to what had happened two years ago. At the time, Gu Yu had been furious. What right did he have to make a grown woman wait? It was as if she were begging him to buy her a meal. Did he look down on her? So what if she dressed plainly and looked like a student? She'd given him a thorough dressing-down. What a petty man! She remembered his text saying he would get engaged and prepare for the wedding within a month. And now? Two whole years later, and he was still alone. By all accounts, he was a pretty good catch. How was he still single?

What right did he have? Looking down on people! In the five years since graduation, she'd been on more blind dates than she could count. Men in all sorts of professions: administrators, accountants, designers, businessmen, teachers, doctors, village officials, and more. Most dates ended after one meeting, and sometimes she didn't even learn their names. Apart from the people she could remember from this year, there were only a few: one who seemed pretty nice but insisted on treating Gu Yu like a little sister, and a civil servant at the Ministry of Transport, introduced by the cousin her grandmother kept mentioning. Then there was this man, who looked down on country folk, was stingy, and had said he'd get married within a month!