“I will not do it, not even a little bit.”
"Why, Brother Weiran?"
Qin Ning pondered his words and murmured them repeatedly.
“The casino is there, claiming that people can come and go freely, and that everyone who comes in does so voluntarily. No one is forced to join. But the casino itself is evil. It knows that the rules of the game are unfair, yet it still operates. Everyone who comes in is going to lose. People who participate in this evil have no right to say that they are clean.”
So even though he won money at the casino on the ship, he didn't take a single penny with him.
Chen Yingde was furious and gave a cold laugh.
"What do you know about me? What could someone like you possibly understand about me?"
If he were as lucky as her, and born into wealth, then he too could—
"Of course I don't understand," Qin Ning replied coldly.
"No one can truly understand another person, no one can truly know what another person is thinking, and no one should sympathize with you for your misfortune. Furthermore, another person's good fortune cannot be used as grounds for blaming them for their sins!"
"On the one hand, you instigated Li Ning to rebel against her parents, and on the other hand, you mocked her for being a hothouse flower. You used the parents who took care of her as an excuse..."
The good environment she received, her good fortune, turned into original sin attacking her! Making her feel inferior, making her timid, making her as despicable as if she had stolen your luck from this world! And then, taking her obedience as your trophy! "Qin Ning's words were firm and resounding.
"And what do you mean by that?"
The entire room fell silent.
Even Qin's mother, who came out after hearing the noise, was stunned and looked at her daughter helplessly.
It was as if they didn't recognize each other.
She bears the shadow of others.
Qin Ning let out a soft breath and tossed her hair.
"Sorry, I seem to have talked too much. Actually, I just happened to be passing by—"
"You two can chat all you want, I have a violin lesson to teach!"
She turned and walked away gracefully.
Only Li Ning, who was at a loss, and Chen Yingde, who was trembling uncontrollably, were left at the scene.
Li Ning was flustered and didn't know what to do. She wanted to comfort her boyfriend, so she quickly reached out and gently tugged at his sleeve.
"Yingde, that's just how Qin Ning is. Don't take it to heart. She's just... a bit assertive, but Qin Ning doesn't mean any harm..."
The boy's face turned ashen, and it took him a long time before he could manage a sneer.
"You can tell that kind of woman is arrogant and domineering from head to toe—pah, I can't stand this kind of woman. Just wait and see, fortunes change every ten years, and one day we'll see who's better!"
Upon hearing this, Li Ning fell silent.
Chen Yingde's attitude felt like a punch to the head from a dream.
She liked Qin Ning very much, and the more she spent time with her, the more she liked her. She liked her politeness, her pride but reason, her extensive knowledge, and that even with all that she had, she thought even more and always tried to use what she already had to create more opportunities.
Her words were harsh, but when her boyfriend called her a hothouse flower and a useless person who dared not defy her parents, he felt that what she said was true.
Why couldn't he handle Qin Ning when she also told the truth?
Chapter Sixty-Nine: Qin Ning's Dream (Part Ten)
Li Ning found Qin Ning.
Qin Ning was tending to a pot of green orchids in her home's greenhouse.
Green orchids and white daffodils, the white and green complementing each other, are so lush and vibrant that they are a delight to behold.
Looking at her calm and composed demeanor, Li Ning found it hard to reconcile the person in front of her with Qin Ning, who was questioning her boyfriend.
She stopped at the doorway and stared at Qin Ning until Qin Ning turned around, noticed her, and happily waved to her, beckoning her over. Then, she proudly presented her treasure.
"Look, isn't my flower arrangement beautiful?"
Li Ning nodded with a heavy heart, watching Qin Ning continue tending to the flowers and plants as if nothing had happened, and finally couldn't help but argue softly.
"Qin Ning, I am very grateful for your help, but you shouldn't have said those things about Ying De before."
Qin Ning held a pair of delicate gardener's shears, pruning the branches and leaves without stopping, and didn't even glance at Li Ning.
"What did he say to you? He's angry. He made you choose between him and me, whether it's either me or him?"
Li Ning hurriedly retorted, "Yingde wouldn't say such a thing."
Qin Ning put down the scissors, turned her head, and smiled slyly.
"Let me guess, he said: 'Whatever! Do whatever you want. Making friends is your freedom, and I won't interfere with you and your noble friends.' — Is that right?"
From Li Ning's surprised look, Qin Ning knew she had hit the bullseye.
"People are all a bit cunning. They know that saying certain things directly is too degrading, so they will package them up and say that they respect your freedom, but they will clearly separate me from him. If you come to me, it is because you covet a noble friend... while looking down on him."
"...He didn't say that!"
Qin Ning shrugged, appearing completely indifferent.
"If you think it doesn't exist, then it doesn't exist. I don't care. But I think it does exist."
After saying this, Qin Ning fell silent and leisurely watered the orchids, while Li Ning watched her movements from the side.
“I don’t know…” she suddenly said.
"I don't know what's right, I'm so confused."
Li Ning's expression was one of panic and melancholy, completely lost.
She was also very flustered before, torn between her parents and her boyfriend, but Chen Yingde's words—"You will always just be your parents' baby, a hothouse flower who dares not rebel against the rules of this family system—"
Driven by the provocation, she impulsively decided to run away from home.
However, Qin Ning intercepted them halfway.
Qin Ning looked at her through the leaves and blinked.
A sense of impatience and suspicion arose in her heart.
She didn't dislike Li Ning, but comforting and guiding others required patience.
Qin Ning has limited patience; she prefers to focus her patience on things that offer tangible rewards or growth.
But this impatience was quickly suppressed.
“I want to talk to you about this from two perspectives, but after we’ve talked, I don’t want to talk to you about this person anymore.”
These words made Li Ning feel uneasy, as if the driftwood she had just obtained was about to slip away from her.
"…………Why?"
"Because the rest is your business, and your business is only worth this much to me. I only want to pay for this kind of time."
Qin Ning's voice was calm and steady.
He was telling Li Ning, but also telling his past self.
"Firstly, it's about you and your parents. I know that feeling—suffocating under your parents' high-pressure control, feeling like every minute of your life is being controlled, with no room to breathe, and no one caring about your feelings. Just three words, 'It's for your own good,' can suffocate you."
"How did you know..."
"When people are suffering, they always think that they are the only ones who are unfortunate. But many people feel the same way as you. You are not special. There are many more people in this world who are more unfortunate than you, and there are many more people who are more unfortunate than you. It is impossible to compare them all."
"But our parents set up a system for us, and there are rules to follow within that system. Many people feel threatened just by hearing about the 'system' and 'rules,' and they all think about breaking the rules. They think that the existing rules are bad and that rebelling against the rules is the only way out. But have you ever thought about what new rules you plan to establish after you break these rules?"
Li Ning was speechless when asked the question.
"Or rather, what new rules does he want to establish for you, and what new rules can he establish for you?"
Qin Ning smiled and winked as she said this.
“It is difficult to establish something, but it is quick to oppose and destroy it. If it were only necessary to point out problems without being responsible for better solutions, then more than 90% of the people in the world would be great masters... But the fact is, there are so few masters in the world.”
As Qin Ning spoke, she hung the orchid, which she had sprayed with water, back on the wall.
"That's the first aspect. The second aspect is the big data issue, the big data about your subject."
Li Ning sat blankly in the direction Qin Ning pointed, sitting on a European-style cast iron white chair, her face full of bewilderment like a primary school student listening to a lesson.
"Big data?"
"Mr. Chen grew up in a different environment than you. Putting aside those boring class theories that people argue about endlessly, if you want to get along with someone whose living environment has been worse than yours since childhood, unless their character and conduct are exceptionally high and far above the average person, it is difficult for a person to remain calm in an environment where differences are clearly visible."
"He will be jealous of you, resentful of you, and worst of all, he will attack your good fortune."
"You think you have a hundred dollars, and if you give fifty to the other person, you'll both have fifty dollars and be happy. But you don't know that many people will remember that their fifty dollars were given to them by you. Not only will they take that fifty dollars, but they'll also want the fifty dollars in your hand, taking everything away and then giving you charity in return."
Li Ning placed her hands on her lap, listened to Qin Ning's words, clenched them together, then released them, and pursed her lips.
"But I believe in Yingde. He's smart and has a good business sense. He'll achieve great things in the future—"
Qin Ning laughed.
"This leads to another issue."
"If he is not as good as you, he must have a broad mind and never be jealous of you. If he has developed far beyond you, then your choice should still be based on his noble character. Because he has won over you, now he is willing to be loyal to you, and he will be loyal. If he is not willing, then he can change his mind at any time."
"Being humble and not envious, being high and not arrogant—how many people can do that? Oh, I certainly can't."
"You not only have to expect him to be of high moral character and talented, but also to have the luck to make a lot of money. You may have to endure hardship for more than ten or even decades before he becomes rich."
"In terms of big data, this is extremely rare, but I don't deny the possibility that it exists."
Li Ning's mouth opened and closed, closed and opened again.
Then fall silent amidst this well-organized discourse.
Chen Yingde is hardly a calm and collected person.
Sometimes he was resentful as if the world was his enemy, and other times he was so dejected as if the world had abandoned him.
He masked his hatred for the world with an attitude of feigned indifference.
Qin Ning cleverly avoided giving Li Ning any conclusion; she simply concluded with a single statistic.
Human nature is too complex.
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