Han Jing shook her head. âThey donât think like that. In their way of thinking, girls canât earn any money. But they know that university students have a good reputation, and with my status as a student, I can marry a rich man. Theyâre afraid that Iâll be too old when I graduate and it wonât be easy to find someone.
âOne of my neighbors⦠is quite rich and wants to marry me!â
Li Qinglang: ââ¦â
He had met all sorts of odd people before. After all, he had a hard life when he was young. So, although Li Qinglang could not understand their way of thinking, he did not pursue the matter further or ask any more questions.
Han Jing was very calm. If she said so, that meant that she really had no other solution. He could not solve her familyâs issues with a few simple words.
âSince⦠your parents want you to marry someone, if youâre together with me, wonât they be even more insistent that you get married? Also, didnât you say they think education is useless and labor is glorious? Then⦠will they like a boyfriend like me?â
Han Jing said, âThey despise people like you, but they like money!â
Li Qinglang: ââ¦â
âLike I said, they might despise rich people and think that laborers are the most glorious. But they love money. Your family background is clearly better than that of the man they found for me. If Iâm with a boyfriend like you, that will be even more hopeful.
âDuring this period, as long as I give them some money, they will think I will have a bright future with you. Then I will say itâs not so easy to marry into a noble family and I need time and so on. Iâm sure I can drag it out for some time.
âAs long as I can graduate, I will be able to earn enough to support myself. Then I will have much more freedom. I can even go to another city to work. That way, they canât find me. They canât afford to travel anyway and canât bear to spend the money.â
Li Qinglang: ââ¦â
âMeanwhile, I mainly need to focus on my studies and my internship. Iâm worried that if they make trouble in school, I wonât be able to graduate. Then all my years of hard work will go to waste. My older brother and sisters paid such a huge price for my current education. I must not abandon it like that.
âIn the future, I will earn money to pay them back! So I canât accept either getting married or having my studies affected in some way that prevents me from graduating. I have to wait until I graduate.â
Li Qinglang asked, âWhat do you want me to do?â
Han Jing said, âYou just have to acknowledge me as your girlfriend. I wonât trouble you unnecessarily. Donât worry about that.
âBut I will certainly need you to pay a visit to my hometown so they can see you and all the neighbors can meet you. No one in my village has married very well. If you go, it will definitely invite a lot of envy and satisfy my parentsâ vanity. They probably wonât force me to marry anyone else after that.â
Li Qinglang understood.
He looked at this girl. She was really very pretty, logical, and beautiful.
He suddenly laughed. âYouâre very frank!â
After all, she was here for a matchmaking session. She had a chance of marrying him, especially since he had made a promise like that to her.
Now she frankly told him all the bad things about her own family and had not hidden anything. She had not even tried to cover up any of her parentsâ faults.
A girl like her was really rare.
Then Han Jing said, âIâm not really going to treat you like a real boyfriend. Whatâs there to be embarrassed about?â
Li Qinglang: ââ¦â
Why did he feel a little hurt?