The night is getting darker.

Chiyu dragged his tired body off work and squeezed onto the subway in the crowd of rubbing shoulders.

He opened WeChat with one free hand.

It's been 24 hours, and the blind date still hasn't replied to his message.

Chi Yu glanced at the other party's circle of friends.

Three days before the discovery was visible, suddenly became half a year visible.

A few dynamics come into view:

"Men are the channel, emotions are the skills."

"Everything is for me, everything is for me."

"Edited Selfie"

"Dear heroine, don't waste time on NPCs, please be the first to complete the main quest, I wish you a lot of fun."

"Travel Photos" and "Food Photos"

"Do one more question, and your boyfriend will level up."

"Study for one more minute and go ashore to pick your husband."

"Photo of the Question" and "Essay Topic"

Just look at the copywriting and photos of the circle of friends.

looks like a motivated female examiner.

If it weren't for the fact that the other party had been studying at home for five years, he hadn't gone ashore yet.

He almost believed in this persona.

Chiyu smiled.

The other party did not shy away from letting him watch these contents.

I think I'm the NPC without a doubt.

Pond fish returns to the chat interface.

Looking at the "oh", "um", "busy", "not available" that the blind date replied yesterday.

I didn't have the heart to talk about it at all.

The sentence "delete each other" was sent straight over.

Then block and delete a dragon.

The subway was crowded with people.

It's like a hodgepodge of boiled pots.

The sultry air was mixed with all sorts of strange smells.

It's upsetting.

Pond fish cut to the introducer's chat box:

"Auntie, I've already chatted with WeChat."

"The girl you introduced is very good, I don't deserve it."

"Forget it, I'll bother you."

On WeChat, there was no movement after the aunt received the message.

Chiyu thought that the dust had settled on this matter.

Put away your phone with peace of mind.

Who knew that I had just gotten out of the subway station.

Mom's phone bombarded me:

"Your aunt said you suddenly deleted someone else, what's the matter?"

"You're such a big person, you don't know how to worry about your own business!"

"You say that others don't talk much, so why don't you take the initiative, make an appointment to meet, and ask us to help you?"

Listening to the scolding of the old mother with a gun and a stick, Chiyu did not have the slightest desire to justify.

She won't listen to it anyway, she will only blame him.

It's not that the pond fish haven't taken the initiative to communicate.

But the blind date has always been this attitude of ignoring answers.

From beginning to end, he has a high profile.

Pond fish are not licking dogs.

Of course I won't get used to her.

Let's talk if you can.

If you can't talk, pull it down.

Seeing that the pond fish had no intention of adding it back.

Mom hated him again and beat him down.

Just hung up the phone.

Dad's WeChat video called.

Chiyu clicked to answer, and a wrinkled old face was reflected on the screen.

"Xiaoyu, I've listened to your aunt, Dad doesn't blame you for this, I really don't like it."

"But I want to say that after two more years of work, Dad won't be able to do it."

"I only hope to hand you over before this, if you don't get married, I'll work outside for a day."

"We're really heartbroken for your sake......"

The pond fish walks alone on the way home.

Daddy's chatter rings in my ears.

There is nowhere to tell about the bitterness in my heart.

Is it because he doesn't want to get married?

Don't want to find a loved one to spend your life with?

Since the betrayal of the relationship by the first love who has been together for eight years, Chiyu suddenly saw a lot of things clearly.

Life always bullies the poor, and so does love.

An ordinary worker like him earns seven or eight thousand a month.

In the Douyin universe where three-digit red envelopes pick the door, four-digit transfers make do, and five-digit sincerity is acceptable.

It will only be divided into poor men.

Then crowd out the mate selection market.

The frequent blind date experience is enough to prove this.

Even if the marriage and love environment has changed so much.

The elders are still accustomed to imposing on him the donor mentality of their generation.

Every time I go home for the New Year, there will always be various voices of forced marriage in my ears:

"There are so many people who don't have a house, and they don't get married?"

"Don't be too ambitious, just find a woman who can live a real life."

"You go to work to earn money to support the family, and she takes care of the family with the baby."

Listen to these statements that are several versions of the backward reality of the marriage market.

Pond Fish Heart Says:

If these words are posted on the Internet, they will definitely be scolded on the hot search.

The "babysitter theory" alone is enough for you to drink a pot.

After you end the call.

Chi Yu silently typed a few lines in the chat box:

"Dad, don't take your children's marriage as your life task"

"It's so tiring."

"Live Yourself and Take Care of Your Health"

Then he turned off his phone screen and walked down the cold street in the direction of the rental house.

The night breeze at 10 p.m. was exceptionally cold.

The streetlights cast a lonely shadow behind him.

In fact, it is not that Chiyu cannot understand the painstaking efforts of his parents.

What they're thinking is—

While the body can still move, all the things that can be done are solved, and you can also help take care of the children in your spare time.

I'm afraid that if I'm seventy or eighty, I won't be able to help my children.

That's why my parents always say:

"You don't understand our difficulties."

Why don't pond fish have their own difficulties?

It is said that men stand at thirty.

But there is still no place for him in the huge city.

The housing price of tens of thousands of square meters overwhelmed him.

How can you spare the energy to marry a wife and have children?

Even if you are lucky enough to find your other half.

And let the descendants repeat his depressed life?

Without the financial strength to back it up, it will only make the child lose at the starting line at the beginning.

The pond fish shook its head sadly.

This was not the result he wanted.

At a glance, the future is like a dark chain firmly binding him.

Can't untie it, can't escape it.

Looking back on the first half of my life.

There are so many regrets.

If he hadn't been so willful when he filled in the college entrance examination that year, the 985 degree would have at least allowed him to get a good job, and the road of life would not be as difficult as it is now.

If he hadn't started a business and let his parents sell off half of his life's livelihood, his father wouldn't have gone out to work and had such a hard time.

If you don't put so much energy and time into your first girlfriend and give up your thriving career, you can at least get a foothold in the big city now.

If......

It would be nice to be able to do it all over again in this life.

The pond fish closed its eyes and sighed heavily.

It's a pity -

There are no ifs in life.

The wrong choices you make when you are young are like bullets fired from an inadvertent gun.

The ultimatum flies back through time and struck you.

The red light turns green, and the pond fish cross the sidewalk.

That's when it happened.

A speeding car burst into his field of vision.

The high beams shook his eyes.

The shrill sound of brakes resembles the long roar of death.

The pond fish didn't have time to dodge.

With a violent collision.

The world spun upside down before his eyes.

The spilled blood spilled a parabola in midair.

Stain your gaze red.

In the last memories.

Several heavily armed medic medic swayed before his eyes, their figures becoming more and more blurred.

"The injured died after rescue efforts failed."

"Ready to contact the family."

Soon the sound was nothing.

Then the world fell into eternal darkness.