Chapter 30: Live for Yourself
I understand that my own sister, no matter how she thinks about it, puts herself in my shoes.
The current marriage and love market, especially in the high-end crowd, there is obviously a situation where there are many boys and girls, many leftover women over 30 years old, appearance, figure, education, work, everything can be done, but they can't find a partner who is suitable for them, take my sister-in-law Ming Yao as an example, she is thirty-one years old, graduated with a doctorate, although her appearance is not very beautiful and moving, but it is also dignified and generous, her personality is relatively gentle, and her work is still very stable, but she has been waiting for the boudoir until now.
The man she wants to find, in her words, is a little older than her, at least two or three years old, not shorter than her, she is one meter six or six tall, and the minimum height for the blind date object is not less than one meter 70, appearance, If you want to be able to do the job, at least you can't be much worse than her, and you have to have a house, because she said that men who don't have their own houses at this age are generally capable of problems; at the same time, Ming Yao also asked the other party to be better if she hasn't been married before, and even if she is married, she must not take care of children, because she doesn't want to be a stepmother; her temper and living habits can't be too bad, because she can't stand such a person, Yunyun.
Speaking from the heart, from the actual conditions of Ming Yao, the mate selection conditions she set are matched with her own conditions, which cannot be said to be too high, but the problem is that this market is very cruel, such as Ming Yao, she can only look for a suitable partner in a single man between thirty-one and forty years old, but the man she looks like, such as a man in his thirties who has a house and a good job, is not bad looking, is not short in height, has a good temper, has never been married, or divorced and has no children, such a man's mate selection range can be from a little girl in her early twenties who has just graduated to an excellent leftover girl in her early thirties, but in the end, such a man with good conditions often abandons both ends and takes it, I found an unmarried girl between the ages of twenty-five and thirty with excellent conditions, and would not prefer an older girl like Ming Yao.
This is the current marriage and love market, in this cruel competition, it is difficult to find a good partner for an excellent older single girl like Ming Yao, and it is even more difficult for a woman in her thirties who has been divorced once like me, I have a friend, divorced at the age of thirty-six, the conditions are very good in all aspects, and there are countless blind dates, but until the early forties, she did not find a suitable partner, and finally became disheartened, telling us that she had decided not to look for it anymore, and it was really impossible to find a sexual partner.
It was in this situation that when I divorced, my sister Haijing advised me to divorce cautiously, and Sister Wang, the lover of Xu Minghui's old leader at that time, also persuaded me seriously: "Xiao Wei, Xiao Xu has made a very serious mistake, but in this world, when the water is clear, there is no fish, and men are impulsive animals, and no man dares to guarantee that he will not make mistakes in his life." If you give up Xu Minghui now, it's like giving up a cabbage that you were optimistic about in the vegetable market in the morning, and then you find that the edge of the vegetable leaf is a little rotten, you want to give up it and pick another one; So the eldest sister advises you to think twice about the divorce, Xiao Xu is at fault again, but you are a young couple who have come all the way, how can this emotional foundation be deeper than that of you and others......"
However, I was angry at that time, and I couldn't listen to anyone's persuasion, besides, Xu Minghui really chilled my heart, if he could sincerely reflect on his mistakes after he was caught and raped by me, I wouldn't be so angry, and it was because he sent me a pain without holding back that I made up my mind to divorce him.
Now, now that I am divorced, Hai Jing began to worry about my lifelong events, and before, she had been persuading me on the phone to let me dress up well, so that my appearance could catch the other party's eyeballs, and then if there was a suitable person, I would hurry up and deal with one, and strive to start a family as soon as possible.
But there are so many things in my company for a while, and I don't have that mind at all, so Hai Jing took advantage of her annual leave to come to see me, just to persuade me.
Hai Jing lived with me for nearly ten days, and every day she nagged these things in my ear, and I listened to them even if I didn't eat them.
She also dragged me to the mall at every turn, and when she saw that the better clothes were on sale, she asked me to try them, and if the effect was good, she would help me buy them.
In this way, under the order of my sister Hai Jing's ear mention, my personal image has really changed a lot, and the clothes on my whole body have improved by more than one grade, and I also dyed my hair under my sister's repeated encouragement, dyed it brown and red, and re-styled, although it is still a short head, but it is more layered, and it looks more foreign.
I also learned how to make up, which of course was also taught by Hai Jing, although I used to put on makeup simply every day, but it was very rough, at most I traced eyeliner and eyebrows, and put on lip balm, and it didn't look like much, but now, under the personal guidance of my sister, I learned how to trim my eyebrows, how to curl my eyelashes, how to base and isolate my skin, how to apply basic makeup and makeup, how to match various colors of eyeshadow, how to cover up the small holes on my face with concealer, and so on.
In the process of learning this, I also felt that the fun of grooming and dressing up was really enjoyable.
Especially when I was dressed up and saw the charming woman with a trendy hairstyle and delicate makeup on her face, the pride in my heart from the inside out was mentioned!
I asked Hai Jing with infinite joy, "Is this really me?"
Hai Jing laughed and replied to me, "Sister, of course it's you! If you don't believe me, you'll know if you pinch you!"
Feeling the slight pain in my muscles, I realized that all this was not a dream, and that the beautiful and fashionable woman in the mirror who was similar to me before was indeed me. In the past, people called me a tomboy and a man's wife, but I didn't care at all, because I always thought that I was married, and the child was a mother, so who would I show if I was so beautiful? Besides, I was dark-skinned, and no matter how I dressed up, it would be like that.
But it wasn't until today that I realized that women are so happy when they learn to dress up, and it turns out that I can be so charming when I dress up.
Looking at my complacent appearance, Hai Jing said to me sincerely: "Sister, in fact, your skin is good, although it is not white, but your skin is smooth and has no spots, and it is very firm, plus you have a good figure, so as long as you dress up carefully, it will be very different from before." ”
I smiled happily and thought to myself, in fact, it is not completely beneficial for me to be idle all day long, because I can't be idle all day long, so my body is better, and life lies in sports. It's because I like to exercise and be energetic that my skin is so firm.
In this way, with my sister's hard work, I completely changed from top to bottom.
After Haijing left, I still insisted on dressing myself up like this, and brought this image to the company.
Many colleagues in the company were shocked by my sudden change, seeing me dressed in high-end clothes, wearing delicate makeup, and becoming fashionable and attractive all over my body, colleagues jokingly asked me if I had any sexual encounters recently.
I understand the psychology of these colleagues, in their minds, I may have always been the image of a man who used to be in a hurry, dressed plainly, did not pay much attention to subtleties, and couldn't even wear makeup, but now I have suddenly become so feminine, they are a little difficult to accept for a while.
So I responded to them with a smile and said, "Your sister I have figured it out now, I want to live for myself once, live a chic and happy life, can't I?"
Hearing me say this, everyone was taken aback at first, and then they all laughed heartily, and said "Okay, of course!"
I smiled and stopped paying attention to the strange look they looked at me like a monster, I knew that some of these people were not kind, and talked and laughed with me in person, but I turned my head and didn't know how to ridicule me, for example, what old cucumber paint is another spring, old women want to score two goals, etc., this kind of ridicule has not been much said about me behind my back before.
But now I don't care at all, now I really live for myself, as long as I feel happy and comfortable, I don't care what other people think of me, and I don't care.
Seeing me dressed like this, Zhao Bingyan's eyes looked at me differently than before, with a little surprise, of course, more disdain.
Zhao Bingyan has always been a fashion beauty who knows how to dress up, all the girls in our entire office add up to none of her can dress up, and her vision has always been arrogant, even though I pay attention to dressing up now, but she has always been at the forefront of fashion can not be compared, maybe in her eyes my dress is still crude and rustic, so it is reasonable for her eyes to be full of disdain for me.
It's a pity that I don't dress like this for the eyes of others, but for myself, so I shouldn't have seen her disdainful eyes, at most I laughed at it.
There is another person in the company who has shown great concern for my sudden change in dressing style, and he is Zhou Yaze, the boss of our company.
I remember that I happened to meet him in the corridor that day, when I was holding a piece and wanted to ask Mr. Wei to sign, but I didn't expect to meet Zhou Yaze in the corridor like this.
That day I wore a set of burgundy professional skirts, this skirt is a Boots brand, and I also bought it with the reference of Hai Jing, originally I didn't want to buy such a dazzling color, but Hai Jing said that my natal year is coming, because people often say that the natal year is full of disasters, so she persuaded me to buy a set of red clothes to wear on my body to suppress bad luck, after trying it, I felt that the style of this skirt was very generous, so I gritted my teeth and bought it.
When he met me in the corridor, Mr. Zhou looked at me with a surprised expression, he stopped, looked me up and down, and then smiled and said to me: "Sister Wei, your dress is very beautiful!"