Chapter 81: Good Question
Perhaps, her life should have been like this. The broader one’s mindset was, the bigger the world one could prosper in. And in the past, she locked herself in a box.
Dr. Lynch returned to the college to give a report. Arianna invited him to dinner in order to thank him for being helpful to her many times.
Dr. Lynch stared at the ring on her index finger, “I heard that you are engaged.”
“We are still getting along with each other.”
“Look at you, girl. When you hit, you hit the home run. Your boyfriend rocks.”
“It’s too exaggerated. He is just a civil servant.”
“Have you seen his Resume? Did you know how many positions he has changed in the past four years? Every time he changed his job, he got a new promotion! This is the man we are talking about. He has a prosperous future.”
“Alright.”
“By the way, after my wife saw you on the road last time, she came home and told me that Arianna’s face has the look of a person who is bound to be rich and wealthy. She has knowledge of fortune-telling, and she is an expert!”
Arianna laughed out, “You and Mrs. Lynch, two natural science practitioners, actually are good at fortune-telling by observing a person’s palm and face! Didn’t Mrs. Lynch see that I am really looking like a jinx to everyone near me?”
“Don’t say something like that. Your beautiful life has just begun. Now it is like the sun at nine o’clock. You still have a long way to go.” Dr. Lynch coughed, “It looks like you really don’t know your boyfriend’s background, how silly you are.”
Charles really didn’t talk about his family, and Arianna didn’t ask. In fact, he must have come from a noble family with his elegant language and dress.
However, when she did not ask him, soon someone took the initiative to inform her. One day the school organized a faculty outing, and all involved in the activity were young people.
In such activities, women had always been a group that was concerned and cared for, whether she got a boyfriend or not.
Therefore, there always were people who looked at Arianna or approached her.
Arianna’s sixth sense had been very keen in recent years. Even if she was standing with her back on others, she could often feel the temperature and gender of the eyes cast on her. Throughout the morning, she sensed a cold gaze on herself from similar sex over and over again, and she felt that it was not from a stranger.
Arianna finally found the owner of the gaze. It was a female teacher who had just graduated and stayed in college. She was pretty and arrogant. This female teacher met Arianna a few days ago, took a few more glances at Arianna’s name card, put it on the table, and then stared at Arianna for a long while. Arianna believed she was beautiful, but not enough to cause this kind of trouble from the same-sex until this female teacher showed up.Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.
In the afternoon, when people took the cable car with two persons on each ride, that beauty found the chance to be in the same group as Arianna. It was a long ride. After being observed by the beauty in the cable car for a long time, Arianna said straightforwardly to her, “Do you have something to tell me?”
The beauty was shocked by Arianna’s outspoken attitude. She used a few seconds to regain her decent look and said, “I always wanted to ask Instructor Jenkins a few questions.”
“Please, as long as it’s within my capabilities.”
“Actually, I want to hear Ms. Jenkins’s views on marriage and love. What do you think is the premise of marriage? Love, or two persons from two families of equal social rank, or something else? And what is the guarantee of love? Marriage? Time?”
Arianna almost guessed out the beauty’s true intentions.
“Good question, I really can’t answer. But I happen to know an old professor of sociology in a neighboring university, maybe I can help introduce you to him.”
“That’s not necessary. I just think that you are currently in love, and you are about to enter marriage. You should be the most eligible person to answer that.” The beauty smiled.
“I cannot have my point of view when I do not see the entire picture.” Arianna also smiled.
“I didn’t expect you to be so humorous.” The young beauty said, “This route is really long. I will tell you a few stories to kill time.”
There were only two side-by-side double chairs and safety buckles in the open cable car, half-hung in the air. The cable car would swing when blown by the wind.
Beneath was the rock of the mountains. It would be a painful death if one dropped out of the cable car in the middle. Arianna looked down at the scene under her feet silently and listened to the ridiculous stories from the young beauty.
Story One: Excellent male A and excellent female B grew up together since childhood. They planned to get married and then live happily ever after, but an unidentified female C came in and took the love away from female B and broke the marriage.
Story Two: A woman D, who was too ordinary in her status, was trying to marry a good male E. Male E came from the same excellent family as male A in story one. The woman D managed to marry male E, but they still divorced in the end.
Story Three: …
While Arianna was still quiet, the young beauty slowly said, “If one person takes away the love and happiness of someone else, would she really enjoy the peace of mind?”
Arianna smiled, “If such ‘happiness’ has been registered as a property, it can probably be recovered through legal means.”
“Oh, what an outstanding opinion! Then, do you think that the story of Cinderella is implausible in reality?” The young beauty waited for a moment, and Arianna did not answer, so she continued, “In fact, the days of the fallen princess are usually worse than Cinderella because Cinderella is at least low-profile, and the princess’s status is too high.”
“Is that story really called Cinderella?”
“Ms. Jenkins is so sophisticated and wise but likes to pretend to be innocent. No wonder someone is obsessed.”