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Chapter 302 Is Being Calculating a Good Thing?

"You are the first case of compensation for lost youth in our live stream."

"Don't spoil the details of how it was calculated. Let me confirm first: have you paid the money?"

"I gave it to him," the older brother said helplessly. "If I don't give him the money, I don't know how long this entanglement will go on."

"But your ex-girlfriend might have said those things in anger. Have you considered that possibility?"

"It's possible, but I still can't accept it. I've heard people say before that when people are having an emotional breakdown, their reactions are the most genuine, because they stop pretending."

"No problem." Zhang Zhe nodded.

This guy is definitely not the kind of rich kid who doesn't know anything. He has a brain. Zhang Zhe has seen too many people who, when they get angry, speak recklessly and hurt people to the core, and then turn around and say that they didn't mean it, and even morally blackmail you and force you to forgive them.

Considering the woman's family situation and her family's attitude towards the man, adding a final "compensation for lost youth" would really be a bad idea.

The way the eldest brother divided things... it's clean, but it's a little bit cowardly.

Anyway, half the people in the live stream were criticizing him.

However, half of the people expressed understanding, saying that it was worth spending money to sever emotional ties.

"How much did you ultimately pay for the loss of your youth?"

"More than 130,000 yuan. In addition to the bride price and the three gold pieces, I gave her an extra 130,000 yuan."

"Huh?" Zhang Zhe did some calculations on the whiteboard: "The three gold pieces are worth 30,000, the bride price is 288,000, and then there's an additional 130,000, which adds up to a total of 450,000!"

"How many years have you two been together, all things considered?"

"It's been about 3 years, but not exactly 3 years since we officially became a couple."

"On average, that's 15 yuan in compensation per year?" Zhang Zhe thought for a moment and asked, "You usually pay for your own expenses, right?"

"Of course, my terms don't require her to pay."

"So how is this money calculated?" Zhang Zhe was ready to learn properly: "Come on, explain the algorithm to me."

“If I tell you this, Brother Zhang, you’ll definitely laugh again.”

"I was already laughing even if you hadn't said anything," Zhang Zhe replied with a smile.

“Okay, this money is divided into three parts. One is the housekeeping fee. She sometimes comes to my house to help with things like washing clothes or taking out the trash. That's 200 yuan per time.”

"Then there's the consultation fee. Sometimes, when my company encounters a problem and I need emotional support, I'll talk to her."

"She felt that chatting and offering suggestions was a great contribution, so it was 1000 yuan per time."

"The third part is the cost of our intimate contact, which is calculated at 2000 per session..."

Is this another case of price gouging?

[These prices all seem to have doubled.]

【Seriously, how can any woman be so shameless? Paying per session? Isn't that objectifying herself?】

[He's not even acting anymore. Brother, you should be glad you went to her hometown, otherwise who knows how long you'd have had to keep up the act.]

"I didn't understand why you wanted to pay."

"But when the woman said that intimate relations should also be charged per session, if I were you, I would definitely pay if I had the money."

As Zhang Zhe spoke, he smiled helplessly.

The older brother smiled with relief: "Yes, she's schemed to this extent. I feel that if I don't give her money, I'd be doing her a disservice."

"OK, so what are your thoughts now?"

"I haven't decided yet. I came here to ask for advice."

The older brother said that he had consulted many people before, and although they were not matchmakers, they were all experienced seniors.

These people summarized his failed relationship as follows:
The two sides are too far apart in terms of their circumstances; to put it bluntly, they are not from the same social class.

"If I want to find a reliable marriage partner, does that mean I can only look among people with similar conditions to me?" "If that's the case..." the older brother hissed softly, "then my choices will be a bit limited."

Zhang Zhe immediately understood his elder brother's subtext:

His family must have arranged blind dates for him with girls from families of similar social standing, but the experiences were very poor.

He's not short of money, so a good experience is very important to him; he doesn't really care about the woman's family background.

"Big brother, do you like to find well-behaved girls who are less well-off than you, and then use your material and psychological advantages to crush them all the way?"

"Hey! Right." The older brother's eyes lit up: "It's the kind of thing you're talking about, Brother Zhang."

"I'm actually not very good at dating, and pursuing girls is difficult for me, so I can accept girls who are more realistic. For me, this is actually an advantage."

"Dude, you're in a dead end."

[Brother, your thinking is a bit like that of a nouveau riche. A rich kid shouldn't act like this. Where's your confidence?]

In Chengdu, he's somewhere in the middle, not the best but not the worst either; people with better conditions wouldn't even consider him.

The problem is that dating this kind of materialistic woman is too risky; you're more likely to get scammed than get into trouble.

"Then you need to work on your ability to judge people."

"When looking for a partner, you can't just look at their appearance; you have to focus on their values."

“I did my research,” the guy explained. “My ex-girlfriend was always fine. She didn’t want my money and never argued with anyone. If we hadn’t broken up in the end, she would have been almost perfect.”

"Impossible, you must have missed some details."

Based on his years of experience dealing with all sorts of scheming women, Zhang Zhe analyzed the situation.

The fact that my brother's ex-girlfriend could quickly think of three items for compensation for lost youth when they broke up, and even calculate the number of times each item would be charged, shows that she was aware of this beforehand.

She remembered it, but she didn't say anything.

This is usually a subconscious habit, and this habit will definitely be reflected in all aspects of life.

"Didn't your ex-girlfriend ever try to take advantage of you? For example, if you went out to eat with your friends and you paid 500 while your friends paid 300, she would feel that you lost 200."

"Or when giving and receiving gifts from relatives, she calculates everything for you very precisely, down to the single digit."

"Don't you have this kind?"

"Well... there really is!" the older brother said half-jokingly, "Brother Zhang, now that you mention it, I'm starting to break out in a cold sweat."

"But then again, all her scheming was for my own good."

"She was always calculating from my perspective."

“If she can treat your relatives and friends like this, she can certainly treat you like this too,” Zhang Zhe said meaningfully. “You can’t just think her scheming is okay only when she’s scheming against outsiders.”

"Well, actually I didn't think it was necessary to calculate it so clearly at the time, but when I thought that she was doing it for my own good, I accepted it."

Brother Zhang has successfully proven that this guy deserved what he got.

It's not fair to say he deserved it; it's just that he could have spotted the problem much earlier.

[These things are hard to detect, don't I know I'm love-struck? When I'm in the throes of new love, I can even be coaxed into eating during my thesis defense.]

You'd be better off finding a naive, innocent, only-child working-class woman.

"Brother Zhang, I have a situation to report. I just bought a motorhome and am planning to travel around China."

"Do you think I could find a girl born in the 00s to travel with me, and then we'd get married when we get back?"

"Can't we get married first and then travel?" Zhang Zhe countered.

"Okay, but an older friend told me that traveling is the best test of a couple's IQ, EQ, and character. I want to do a good job of testing them this time."

(End of this chapter)