Honesty in Marriage

  "What? Really?"

  Lin Jingya asked: "Was it painful just now?"

  "It's all bruised and swollen, does it hurt?!" The beating was too severe.

  Lin Jingya laughed: "That's really it! I also suspected that just now was a dream." Anyway, this is good news. Lin Jingya didn't sleep anymore: "No way, I have to go and ask for a copy of the name list."

  "What list?"

  "You don't know, now every family with a marriageable child has a list, which includes name, phone number, family relationship, education, personality, ability, hobbies, and whether they have had a boyfriend or girlfriend..." Lin Jingya couldn't wait for even one minute, and busied herself away...

  Gu Zi hung up the phone, feeling like he had settled a big matter, his heart felt much lighter, and after rubbing his eyes for a moment, he was ready to head to work. On his way down the stairs, he passed by a breakfast shop, but in the end, he couldn't resist buying a breakfast set and a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice to bring back with him before finally feeling at ease and leaving. Orange juice is good for hangovers, people who drink it after a night of heavy drinking will feel much more comfortable.

  Su Ze woke up with a severe headache and an empty stomach. Seeing the food on the dining table, he dug in without hesitation and felt much better after eating. He glanced at his watch to find it was already 9:30.

  Su Zi said she was beaten and went to the hospital. This girl, regarding last night's drunken behavior, had already forgotten it completely! It's really too shameless.

  Liu Qingyan saw Su Ziyu's pale face and asked: "Is this due to overindulgence or unfulfilled desires?"

  Su Zi shook his head: "Neither, I drank too much last night."

  Liu Qing furrowed her brow: "How come you're drinking again?"

  Su Zi said with a heavy heart: "Yesterday was the 9th anniversary of our relationship, I wanted to surprise Dong Nan by picking him up from work, but unexpectedly I saw him and Su Shui He going to open a room together. He even lied to me saying he was in a meeting at the company! But I clearly saw them go to the hotel and open a room for an hour!"

  Liu Qingyan shook her head: "Zi Yan, I've told you before, but you forgot. Between husband and wife, if there's a problem, it must be solved in time. Be honest and don't make random guesses. Many things are not what they seem, and the human eye can only see the surface of the material world, so the information it captures is not necessarily correct."

  "Other human senses also have their limitations, and even information filtered through the brain is not necessarily accurate. People are hindered by the concepts of the real society."

  "It is often thought that things seen with one's own eyes are real, while things that cannot be seen are not believed at all. In fact, human vision can only see a part of the material world, and many times what is seen is just an illusion. Hearing is unreliable, but seeing is not necessarily true either!"

  "It can be seen from the classic 'Journey to the West' that only Sun Wukong with his fiery eyes and golden pupils could see through the original form of the White Bone Demon, while in the eyes of Tang Monk, Pigsy and Sandy, the village woman, old lady and old man transformed by the White Bone Demon's disguise were all kind-hearted and simple villagers, they couldn't believe that those images were all disguises of demons."

  "How many things that are seen with one's own eyes or personally experienced are false 'realities', and people often make judgments and decisions based solely on what they see at the moment, leading to so many mistakes, regrets, and remorseful consequences. Zi Tang, I don't want you to regret and cry in the future!"

  "Do you still remember a story we once read? In ancient times, there was a loving couple. The husband went out to do business, and the wife waited at home. After several months, the husband missed his wife so much that he returned home to visit her. When the moon was above the willow branches, he finally arrived at the village entrance, dusty and tired. The warm light from the lamp in his home hastened his pace."

  As he approached his own home, he saw a scene that pained him greatly - in the window, his wife, whom he had been thinking about day and night, was having dinner with a strange man. At this moment, his wife was even smiling as she fed a piece of food into the man's mouth, their manner extremely intimate. He immediately thought that this must be his wife's betrayal of him, and he did not want to take another step forward.

  "A heart full of anger made him turn around and leave, never to return. When his hair turned white with age, thinking that he didn't have much time left, he wanted to resolve the knot in his heart that had been bothering him forever, so he returned to his old home once again."

  "He saw that his ex-wife was now gray-haired, living alone in solitude. He asked her why she was like this. She said she had been waiting for him silently all these years, asking him why he left without a word and only returned now. He expressed the doubts he had back then."

  His wife frankly told him that the man was her long-lost brother, and he had come to see her. "Do you want to be like that husband, regretting for the rest of his life?"

  Su Zi said nothing, but in her heart she was indeed shaken.

  Liu Qingyan continued: "Zi Yan, you once told me that when Yan Hui was cooking porridge, he found something dirty had fallen into the pot. He quickly used a ladle to scoop it up and was about to pour it out when suddenly thought, every meal is hard to come by, so he ate it."

  "It just so happened that Confucius walked into the kitchen and thought Yan Hui was stealing food, so he scolded him severely. After an explanation, Confucius suddenly realized his mistake. Confucius sighed and said: 'What I saw with my own eyes wasn't true, let alone what I heard from others?'"

  "This story was told to you by me, have you forgotten? Zi Yan, if you want to be with Liu Dongnan for a long time, you should try to believe him. Even if you have doubts, ask him clearly, don't let suspicion ruin your happiness. There's nothing going on here, go back and talk to Liu Dongnan properly."

  Su Ziyan nodded and went to Liu Dongnan's company. He was working, saw Su Ziyan came, somewhat surprised: "Ziyan, how did you come? This morning I called your phone also shut down. Didn't sleep well last night? How so haggard? Or, let's go home?"

  Su Zi smiled and said: "Won't it affect your work?"

  Liu Dongnan hung up the internal line and handed over the matter to his secretary before saying, "My wife is more important! Let's go, I'll accompany you today. Haven't had breakfast yet?"

  Su Zi nodded: "I've eaten."

  Liu Dongnan said: "Why don't you go back and sleep for a while first? You look very tired."

  Su Ze didn't object, followed Liu Dongnan back home, took a bath, lay on the bed, and still decided to ask: "Dongnan, have you completely broken up with Su Shuihe?"

  Liu Dongnan's eyebrows jumped slightly, and he felt a bit uneasy in his heart: "Why did Ziyan suddenly ask this? Could it be that he heard some rumors?"

  Su Zi said bluntly: "Because I'm afraid. I hope that between us, it's really just the two of us, and no one else. Dong Nan, I really want to grow old with you."