We are dating but not in love

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In Beijing, the number of unmarried people aged 28 to 35 who do not have a formal partner has increased fivefold in just five years, with more than 60% of them being women. More and more people are using the old-fashioned way of blind dating to choose a partner. Although the success rate is not high, it is still a way. It is difficult to find a lover, and it is even more difficult not to have a lover.

 

　　Blind date, bet on treasure

Time flies, just like what is written in old novels: like a white horse passing by in a flash. In a blink of an eye, I am already 28 years old. Because I still don't have a boyfriend, I have always been a big problem for the whole family. Everyone is very anxious, especially my mother. She asks almost everyone she meets: "Do you know a suitable boy?" Seeing that my mother is becoming more and more like Xianglin Sao, I have no choice but to join the army of blind dates with guilt.

The person I went on a blind date with for the first time was the nephew of my cousin's colleague. I heard that he was a scholar from the south of the Yangtze River, and he was good in all aspects. He looked like the Hong Kong star Lawrence Ng. I wore the long dress my mother had specified, and I looked as elegant and virtuous as an old Barbie doll. Since I had no experience in blind dates for the first time, I went to the appointment with a lot of fantasies in my head. I even thought that my future child would be a good combination of the north and the south. I felt that God had really treated me well. Who would have thought that when we met, my heart "stomped". "MY GOD!" I almost thought it was Mr. Wang, the doorman of the unit. This young man was bald and his head was like a big sweet potato. Except that he and Lawrence Ng both wore glasses, there was no similarity. The more I looked at him, the more I felt that he looked more like Ng Man-tat than Lawrence Ng. I was shocked and my legs began to weaken.

 

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After the introducer left, he invited me to have dinner together. I couldn't refuse, so I walked to the door of a western restaurant with him. The waiter greeted me warmly, and I saw him wave his hand gracefully, and then went into the KFC on the basement floor. After sitting down, he took out a bunch of colorful coupons from his wallet and asked me with concern whether I liked hamburgers or chicken legs.

After calming down, he talked about his hometown Hangzhou, and I talked about Beijing. It was like we were acting out a Tale of Two Cities. When there was nothing to say, we just stared at each other. However, if you are hurt mentally, you must compensate for it materially (a wise saying). When eating with someone you don’t feel anything for, chicken nuggets and wings are the best choice. You can eat until your hands are greasy without having to pretend to be a lady. I ate a few chicken wings and suddenly felt uncomfortable all over. I looked up and found that the old man was staring at me lovingly. "Where do you usually go to play?" "What time do you go home at night?" "Do you like singing?" The old man asked me tirelessly, as if I was applying for a PR lady. After eating and drinking, he still wanted to go to Qiangui to sing. I hurriedly said that I was not feeling well and wanted to go home. The old man stood there with his mouth wide open, probably thinking, what a guy, two hamburgers, four chicken wings, and two bags of fries, and you still say you are not feeling well.

I gave up the old man's determination to be a flower protector and took a taxi home alone. I passed by the couples cuddling on the roadside and suddenly felt envious. Before I got home, my mother called me: "How is it? It's not good. It's okay. Your second aunt introduced you to someone else. I heard that he is a 'returnee' who looks like Lu Yi..."

 

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He was already 27 or 28 years old, and no one believed that he had never had a real relationship. Before the meeting, the girls who were introduced to him showed strong curiosity about this handsome guy with a "clean history". He was also very proud of this fact, thinking that since it was an antique, he must be worthy of its price if he really wanted to sell it.

At first, friends kept looking at the fifth diamond queen. Nowadays, it is a good choice for men to be lucky enough to be with a rich woman, and he is also a successful person. With a strong combination, they should both feel reliable. As a result, when he met a dignified bank manager, the two sat for half an hour like a business negotiation and came out without a chance. The second one was a literature teacher in a university. He expressed his yearning for pure love all night, and he was so moved. But he sent the still intoxicated female teacher to the taxi and turned away. Later, he explained to his friends that both of them were older than him, and there was no way they could cultivate the elegance of a sister-brother relationship. So the third one changed his style: in his early twenties, youthful, but in the end, there was still no follow-up. She had been in society since she was eighteen, and after thinking it over, she felt that the water was too deep and she decided not to wade.

 

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　　Blind date? It's painful to talk about it

I didn’t expect that I, a young and beautiful woman in the 21st century, couldn’t escape the fate of blind dating. There was no way. My transformation from a strawberry to an apple and then to a tomato made even the aunties in the neighborhood committee anxious. So, introducing a boyfriend to me became the unshirkable task of the whole family. From my grandmother to my younger sister, it seemed that they had finally found a career that could make them shine. They were so dedicated that they wished I could digest three a day to live up to everyone’s expectations.

I have seen it so many times that I know that men divide the women they date into five levels: Cadillac, Audi, Xiali, Dongfeng, and bicycle. Cadillac is of course the beauty level that makes people's eyes shine, and bicycle is the dinosaur level that is like being hit by a club.

This classification is also applicable to men, it is just an assessment of their overall quality. The guy who has the appearance of a Cadillac but rides a bicycle to the appointment makes me feel "disappointed". But the pig-headed captain who drives a Cadillac makes me want to turn around and run. There are a few balanced ones, but they are all irrelevant.

 

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E. A rigid and die-hard person.

Choice A: It means you are the type who will fall for an "idealistic and positive" boy. Your favorite partner is someone who is ambitious. As long as he is a hard-working person, you will admire him sincerely.

Option B: You are the type who will fall for a boy with stable financial situation and personality. Your favorite partner must be a man who can meet your standards in terms of material and spiritual aspects and make you feel safe.

Choose C? You are the type of person who will fall for a "down-to-earth and hardworking" boy. Your favorite partner is someone who can silently give and take care of you and your family. This is the kind of good man you can trust to entrust your life to.

Choose D? It means you are the type of person who will fall for a cute, innocent and kind-hearted boy. Your favorite partner should be a sincere, kind, innocent man who will pamper and love you.

Choose E? You are the type of person who will fall for a boy who is "romantic and has a taste for life". Your favorite partner is the one who knows how to live, understands you, and can get along with you.

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　　Dating can be addictive

Green Tea is an urban love story with a mysterious suspense. Wu Fang, a plain-looking female master's degree holder, keeps going on blind dates. Every time she goes on a date with a man, she orders a cup of green tea. She believes that a cup of tea can predict a person's love.

Chen Mingliang doesn't believe in the theory of green tea, but he thinks he knows a lot about women. In his eyes, women are divided into two categories: forest type and Roman type. In the forest, you see countless roads and countless possibilities, so men are easy to get lost in front of forest type women; while in front of Roman type women, men are easy to lose themselves, because you never know how many people are heading towards the same goal on other roads.

Although the screenwriter of this film did not determine that Wu Fang and Lang Lang were the same person, and left it to the audience to understand, since both roles were played by Zhao Wei alone, many people walked out of the theater convinced that the heroine was a person with a split personality, and some film critics also came to this conclusion.

 

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"Oh hello, I'm ×××, and these are my leaders ××× and ×××." That magnetic voice now sounded like a bolt from the blue.

"Didn't we agree to meet at ××× at 6 o'clock?" I began to regret telling him where I worked. The scene of luxury cars and flowers that I thought would happen disappeared.

"Our unit is allocating housing, and our leader asked me to come and see if there is any hope of allocating housing to me."

I, I, I, I... I finally realized the horror of wanting to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Let's get angry together

"Stinky potatoes..."

"Big sour pear..."

When we called each other by our junior high school nicknames, the blind date turned into a reunion. After we exchanged our painful experiences of being forced into blind dates, the nth blind date ended.

Finally, I summed up the law of blind dates: there are only two types of people who go on blind dates: bad ones and those who are forced to.