1979: My fiancée is a goddess

Chapter 130 About Teaching College Students How to Fall in Love

After a moment of silence, there was a lively discussion.

"I don't agree with this. Although I have read this novel and admire the heroine's strong character in troubled times, how is this different from being fickle? If it were published more than a decade ago, it would have been severely criticized."

Soon a boy from Beijing Normal University raised his hand and stood up to speak.

"Student, I want to refute you here. Scarlett is not a fickle woman. She is indeed frivolous, but every relationship she has had is legal and compliant, and every relationship ended completely cleanly. Your accusation is groundless."

Another girl said indignantly.

"I think so..."

There was a lot of discussion for a while.

Cheng Kaiyan waited for a while before waving her hand for silence.

He leaned on the podium, leaned sideways, smiled faintly and said:
"It seems that everyone has their own opinions. In traditional Chinese marriages, love seems to be a very small and insignificant thing.

From the feudal era of parents’ orders and matchmaker’s words.

Nowadays, classmates and colleagues introduce each other, go on blind dates, and then get married.

There are even child marriages and engagements that are arranged from childhood.

This is true for a lot of people.”

Cheng Kaiyan's deep yet magnetic voice rang in the students' ears through the loudspeakers in the auditorium.

After hearing these words, everyone nodded in unison, and it was indeed as he said.

"But I think that by listening to my story about Scarlett, everyone will know how to establish a correct value system for love. I hope everyone will cheer up and pay more attention, especially boys. This will help you find your life partner during your four years in college."

Cheng Kaiyan kept the secret, which made everyone look forward to it.

"The correct values ​​of love? Has any teacher at Peking University ever talked about this?"

"no?"

"Is he going to teach us how to date?"

There was a girl with a red face, looking at Cheng Kaiyan on the podium with a dazed look.

The lecture officially begins.

The content selected by Cheng Kaiyan is all about the love process of the heroine Scarlett and different men.

"To interpret this world-famous masterpiece, we must naturally interpret it from the characters. The heroine Scarlett is an American woman who lived in the 19th century. She lived in an era of cultural conflict between the North and the South. She is a microcosm of the times and the epitome of cultural conflict.

This sixteen-year-old girl lives in Tara Plantation in Georgia, where Southern plantation culture is prevalent. She is a rich lady and lives a wealthy and carefree life.

At this stage, she was no different from ordinary girls, except that she had a drive that made her different from others.

When she was a girl, she fell in love with her neighbor Ashley, but Ashley chose to marry his cousin Melanie. In revenge, Scarlett married Charles, whom she did not love. After the outbreak of the Civil War, Charles died of illness in the war, and Scarlett became a widow..."

“Just out of revenge, she married a man she didn’t love.

This tells us that sometimes what we think is love is more of an idealized infatuation. Don’t regard the other person as a flawless idol. One-sided love is useless. Love requires mutual appreciation and mutual recognition. Only two-way love is meaningful. "

"There's a good quote in the article: I love a fictional person... so I can't see what he really looks like."

Cheng Kaiyan wrote the first rule on the blackboard: Love is not one-way, only love that goes both ways is meaningful.

"He really wants to teach us how to date! Haha!"

“That’s a good brother.”

"Love is not one-sided, that's true."

Song Jianchun, who was sitting in the audience, looked at Zhao Ruixue in the distance with a complicated expression, sighed deeply, and murmured.

These words really touched his heart.

It can be said that his feelings for Zhao Ruixue were almost known to everyone in the class, but the other party had always acted indifferent. He always thought that time would change everything, but the cold icy rain hit his face randomly, and the reality was cruel.

Just like Scarlett in "Gone with the Wind", in order to get revenge on Ashley, she married someone else but never saw the other party regret it.

"Perhaps it was the lesson of first love. After the death of her first husband, Scarlett grew up a lot and was no longer impulsive in love. In order to survive and protect herself, she chose her second husband, a wealthy businessman, just to use him to protect her family's estate. During this period, she was selfish."

Article 2: Love is not based on deception and exploitation. Love requires sincerity and trust.

Article 3: Love is a process of growth and self-discovery

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"Rhett loves Scarlett and respects her independence and strength, but Scarlett is unaware of her feelings for Rhett at first. Their relationship goes through many challenges, and eventually Scarlett begins to understand Rhett's love."

Article 4: Love requires mutual respect and freedom.

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As time went by, Cheng Kaiyan was speaking and the students in the audience were taking notes eagerly.

Indeed, as he said, in the 1980s, in the post-Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside era, these young people who had just graduated from junior high school and entered the countryside for labor reform had never received education on love, and no one, no teacher, no parent would teach them the correct view of love.

Most people follow their inner impulses, and their hearts are like wild weeds that grow wildly and disorderly, born in the spring and die in the autumn.

This year's view of love is incomplete and imperfect.

However, Cheng Kaiyan listed and explained them one by one through the story of "Gone with the Wind".

How can this not drive these young people crazy?
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"The end of the story is regrettable, heartbreaking and unsettling.

Scarlett, who had experienced the death of her husband and her true love Rhett after many setbacks, left him and chose her first love Ashley, but after a period of contact, she realized that he only loved the Ashley in her imagination.

The reason why Bai Yueguang is Bai Yueguang is that even if he stands there, he cannot compare to the appearance of the person in the memory.

The him in your memory is perfect. What you love is the heartbeat at that time, the unwillingness of not being able to love, and the naive memories of your youth.

The reason why memories are beautiful is precisely because you can never go back to the past, back to the past of youth, ignorance and heart-pounding past.

In the end, Scarlett wanted to return to her true love, but Rhett rejected her at this time, and the love could not be restored. "

……

"Whoosh!"

Outside the auditorium, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the light gray clouds made it hard to breathe.

The fine spring rain gradually grew heavier, hitting the glass windows of the auditorium, and a few flashes of lightning flashed across the sky.

Outside the window is a dull natural world.

Inside the window are excited students who are excited about new knowledge, new insights, and things they have never seen before.

In this special era when even the word "love" is difficult to talk about, a great writer of the same age as them actually openly teaches them the secrets of love.

It’s really shocking!
"The term white moonlight is really well used! The white moon is as bright and flawless as your first love, pure and beautiful!"

"Yes, who didn't have a first love when they were young?"

The students expressed the excitement in their hearts, which was a feeling of resonance in their souls.

"Teacher Xiao Cheng's understanding of first love is really insightful! You can't say such things unless you've dated seven or eight people, right?"

Ji Qinglan held her face and looked at the young man on the stage who seemed to be radiating light, and asked curiously.

"White Moonlight? Is it because I'm standing in the memories? The reason why memories are beautiful is because I can never go back to the past?"

Zhao Ruixue bit her lips with her white teeth and said unwillingly.

first row.

Jiang Ting hugged her niece Ning Wanjia. When she heard Cheng Kaiyan's words, she lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.

They were not the only ones moved by these novel and philosophical words.

Countless young men and women in the audience had their views on love completely changed by the content of this class.

They realized how naive and ridiculous their previous views on love were.

At this time, Cheng Kaiyan glanced around, and closed the lesson plan with satisfaction with a snap.

The movements are clean and crisp.

Then he bowed slightly and ended his first lecture.

"Okay, that's all for today's class. Thank you everyone!"

What followed was thunderous applause from the audience, which flooded towards him like a wave.

The applause was accompanied by thunder and it took a long time for the sound to subside.

Many people will remember this scene for the rest of their lives:

The young man who was bowing slightly on the podium was covered with a white light after a flash of lightning.

Praise love!

Then, Cheng Kaiyan turned back just after leaving the stage and made a very unpleasant advertisement:

"My new novel Love Letter, published in People's Literature, will be published on April 1st. Anyone interested can take a look."

"Love letter? Are you advertising it here?"

"Oh my God! Is People's Literature going to publish a romance novel?"

Obviously, this news shocked the students of these universities again.

(End of this chapter)