Flash Marriage

chapter 28.3

my happiness has nothing to do with YOU (3)

Me: “What if your former lover was lying naked on your bed, what would you do?”

Jiang Li: “Throw him out.”

Me: “I don’t believe you. How can you let such kind of temptation go in vain?”

Jiang Li: “If not, then I will click some pictures. They may come handy in future.”

Me: “You are really despicable!”

Jiang Li: “Forget about that. I will prosecute him for trespassing and sexual assault.”

Me:……


I mentally kowtowed to his word ‘Sexual assault.’

Jiang Li added: “Xiao Guan Yan the problem is that you are way too dedicated and extremely clingy.”

I scratched my head and innocently said: “Ah, no actually the people are around me are way too flexible.”
 

Jiang Li: “In your consciousness leaving equals to abandoning and abandoning amounts to betrayal. So, if somebody leaves you it means he betrayed you.”

I blinked: “Is it like not so?”

Jiang Li shook his head: “Who defined this that if someone is with you then he must stay for life and cannot leave you? And even if he leaves you then also he hasn’t done anything wrong, perhaps it’s you who has chosen the wrong guy.”
 

I was completely speechless for a long time and finally said: “He told me ….that he would stay with me forever…”

Jiang Li looked at me as if he hated the iron for not becoming steel* and shook his head strongly: “How old are you, how can you believe such words? Most of the times such kind of promises are not even worth the price of cow dung.”


*Original text was 恨铁不成钢 Which literally means to hate iron for not becoming steel and figuratively to feel resentful towards the subject for failing to meet expectations and impatient to see any improvement.

I was stunned. Ah, he was right, what was a promise? He Zhi and I always broke our words. It was hard to keep small and trivial promises let alone promise of a lifetime. Such kind of words was nothing but sweet things to hear. Now I found it really funny, how I took Yu Zhi Fei’s promise so seriously in the past.

“Jiang Li, I will not anymore.”

Jiang Li: “What?”

Me: “I will not believe in anyone’s promise.”

Jiang Li: “In fact occasionally you can trust me as I have always been the man of a good character.”

Me: “I can’t find any relation between you and good character. I haven't even seen the dawn 
of your so called character.”

Narrowing his eyes, he threatened: “Really?”

I trembled and quickly corrected my words: “No, no. you have a very good character. Actually super good character.”

I did not even have the freedom of speech and there he was, shamelessly boasting about his ‘good character,’ what crap!!!!

Before going to bed at night, I sent a text message to that strange number: ‘Yes, I am really happy and my happiness has nothing to do with YOU.’