nashuaworldcup Chapter 851 Chicken soup is good, but no matter how full you are
Chapter 851 Chicken soup is good, but no matter how full you are
In the bar, there are dim warm lights and soothing music. On the card table in the corner, there are some snacks and a glass of juice for each person.
There weren't many people in the bar at this time, only a few tables of guests were chatting. Qiao Yingzi was depressed to find that it was completely different from what she had imagined. There was no exciting music, no explosive dances, and inexplicably she felt like she had entered an old disco.
"Brother Chen, this feels weird. It seems even worse than a coffee shop."
"It's not even time for the real night club yet, and compared to the crazy dance, this style is more popular."
"Do you often come to places like this?"
Qiao Yingzi now yearns for adult life very much, and believes that by that time, she can truly relax and be free.
Chen An shook his head, "I don't like bars."
"Brother Chen, you are only a few years older than us, but you don't seem to have the same feelings as young people. Don't young people like to drink and dance in nightclubs?"
"Yingzi, have you ever received a love letter from a boy since you were a child?"
"This." Qiao Yingzi hesitated and nodded, "I have received it three times. Why are you asking this?"
"Tell me how you feel when you receive a love letter. I'll tell you why later."
Qiao Yingzi thought about it for a moment and couldn't help but pout and complain, "The first time I received a love letter was when I was in the third year of junior high school. At first I was surprised, nervous, and even a little excited, but after reading the love letter, I just wanted to hit someone..."
"What's going on? Is the person who wrote you the love letter too ugly?"
Qiao Yingzi blushed a little, "No, that guy is from the next class. He said I looked very handsome when I played basketball and he liked me very much. He wanted to play basketball with me in the future and wanted me to teach him..."
"Ahem..." Chen An hadn't expected that there would be such a story. No wonder Qiao Yingzi was so depressed. She was a pretty girl. She finally received a love letter, but it turned out to be because of playing basketball...
"Brother Chen, what are you laughing at? I'm really good at basketball. Most boys are no match for me. If it weren't for my bad genes, if I were 1.75 meters tall, I would definitely join the basketball team."
"Yingzi, I just choked. Please continue. The second and third ones, won't it be the same?"
Qiao Yingzi said angrily, "It's worse than the first one. He's really fat and wears a pair of small glasses. He writes love letters as long as the menu. He lists all kinds of snacks and delicious food, including what to eat in the morning and what to buy for me at noon. It's just that his family is rich and he wants to drag me down with him so that I can become fat together..."
Chen An became interested and asked, "What about the third one?"
Qiao Yingzi curled her lips, "The third one is pretty normal in all aspects, but he likes me for my academic performance and wants to study with me. He even said that we should go to Peking University together. My dream is to go to Nanjing University, so I would never go to Peking University with him."
These three confessions really have a strong campus atmosphere, but it is obvious that the last one went in the wrong direction.
"Brother Chen, you should tell me the reason now, right?"
Chen An explained helplessly, "The first time I went to a bar, I was approached by many people, and there was a female companion with me at the time."
"Ah, this is so fierce?"
"These are all basic operations. Ten days ago, a friend of mine was in a bad mood and asked me to go to a bar to drink and dance. The first part of the drinking was fine, but we almost got into a fight while dancing."
Qiao Yingzi asked excitedly, "How can a fight break out during a disco? Did someone get stepped on, or is your friend's hands dishonest?"
"My friend is a girl."
"That?"
Chen An pointed at his nose and said, "No, he was too charming. Those women kept clinging to him. My friend couldn't stand it, so he started a quarrel."
"You still can't stand it? I think you're jealous." Qiao Yingzi joked, and her depressed mood improved a lot. She couldn't help wondering, if that friend was replaced by Taozi, would her personality cause conflicts with others?
"So I don't go to bars easily now. This one is better. Most people who come here are white-collar workers with heavy work pressure. They come here just to relax."
"However, at your age, you should try not to go to bars alone. It's easy to get into trouble."
Qiao Yingzi shook her head. "Brother Chen, you're worrying too much. My mom wants to tell me two equations even during dinner time. Not to mention going to a bar, after my senior year of high school, I don't have much time to look at my phone except at school."
"Is this why you ran away?"
The sudden question made Qiao Yingzi at a loss for words. Strictly speaking, her mother was very good to her, and her mother's love was even a little excessive and suffocating. She was afraid that if she told him the reason, Brother Chen would look down on her.
Seeing this girl lowering her head again and arguing with the melon seeds without saying a word, Chen An was very depressed. It was really difficult to deal with this little girl who was in depression and rebellious period and broke out at the same time. He couldn't figure out what she was thinking at all.
"If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. I'm just asking casually..."
Hearing this, Qiao Yingzi became a little anxious. Brother Chen cared about her and she couldn't let him misunderstand her.
"Brother Chen, my mother has given me too much love, so much that I can hardly bear it. The higher her expectations of me, the greater the pressure I feel. Many times, I feel that whenever I don't do well in the exams, I feel that I am not worthy of her love and her efforts..."
"But I also have my own ideas and dreams. I don't want to be bound by this kind of love. I want freedom. I..." Qiao Yingzi couldn't continue speaking. She glanced at Chen An, fearing that she would be looked down upon.
But when I saw Chen An's eyes, I realized that I seemed to have overthought. In one word, it could be described as calm.
"Yingzi, I've had similar feelings to you. I was adopted and raised by my master since I was a child. He was always very strict and made me learn this and that. If I didn't meet his requirements, he would beat me with a cane."
"It was not until he left and I entered society that I slowly understood that my master had treated me like that out of good intentions, hoping for the best for me and expressing his love for me as his disciple."
Qiao Yingzi originally thought that Brother Chen was going to use this to enlighten her, but the next second, Chen An's words stunned her.
"Yingzi, my master hopes that I can be successful. If possible, he hopes that I will inherit his legacy." Chen An shrugged, "But look at me now. Although I am living a good life, what I do is obviously very different from what he hoped for. But I think he must be pleased in his grave."
"Yingzi's so-called filial piety is not just blindly obeying others' advice. Parents are selfish. They hope that through their own hard work, their children will suffer less and they want to plan a future path for their children.
They have not walked this road, so it is inevitable that they will do something bad with good intentions. At this time, you need to have your own ideas, your own pursuits, and your own choices, and ultimately work hard to prove that your choice is correct and that you live a good and happy life.
In the end, we all end up in the same place, and that is to agree with our parents' expectations. This is the right thing to do, and it is worthy of our parents' efforts and our own lives."
Qiao Yingzi's eyes lit up. Chen An's words touched her heart. This was exactly what she had been confused about, wanting to change but couldn't figure out the direction. Now her messy thoughts had a direction, and the haze that had been accumulating in her heart dissipated a lot.
Seeing Qiao Yingzi's look, Chen An felt amused. A bowl of chicken soup for the soul can only relieve temporary suffering. It is difficult to change one's nature. Even if Song Qian's character is suppressed for some reasons, it is only temporary.
Even if Qiao Weidong remarries her and becomes Qiao Yingzi's shield temporarily, as time goes by, the effectiveness of this shield will become less and less effective until it disappears and becomes useless.