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Chapter 1462 A Magic Trick! He-style Warning! (Day 15, Sunday/Saturday, requesting monthly votes!)

You've said both the truth and the sarcasm.

Those words were laced with sarcasm.

If he had been willing to listen to anyone, he wouldn't have lived his life the way he did in the original story.

Despite owning a multi-million dollar house and having millions in savings, he was dumped by Li Xiaoyue.

Fortunately, being a more ordinary and realistic person, he didn't follow the example of Chen Xiaozheng from "So Young," who, once he lost his first love, would live a lonely and unhappy life no matter how successful he became.

Every time Na Jun gets dumped, he immediately goes on blind dates to find a suitable marriage partner, and it seems he actually finds one in the end.

In the eyes of the world, however, he was just a tragic figure who lost his wonderful girlfriend, Li Xiaoyue, and was dumped.

He doesn't think so himself.

In the future, he will only feel that he has gotten rid of Li Xiaoyue, a burden, in time, and will move from one success to one even greater success.

Such an extremely self-centered person as Na Jun would certainly not be moved by He Chen's profound words.

In his eyes, He Chen was a petty person who deliberately made sensational statements and tried to attract attention!

He always took a condescending stance in criticizing and judging others—his girlfriend, his own brother, his sister-in-law, his brother… He would speak his mind without reservation if anyone displeased him.

He Chen was no exception.

“Senior, you’ve also studied dialectics in philosophy, so you should know that everything should be viewed dialectically. If you look at something positively, you should say it directly; if you look at it negatively, you should say it indirectly. Isn’t that normal?” He Chen changed his form of address and laughed. “It can’t be that everyone’s words are absolutely correct, right? You can only criticize others, but you can’t let others refute you or even criticize you in return, right?”

“That’s just how he is!” Li Xiaoyue blurted out.

She had long been disgusted by her boyfriend Na Jun's behavior and had threatened to break up several times. Either her boyfriend would accuse her of not being ambitious enough, or he would complain that she, a student from a second-tier university, was not ambitious enough and wouldn't listen to him, which she couldn't stand, so she took the initiative to break up.

Na Jun's conditions are good, exceeding those of 99.999% of her peers.

But so what?
She doesn't really want any of that from him.

Back when her parents were still alive, they always said they would take her out to play when she was in junior high school, but then they kept putting it off until high school. However, when she was in her senior year of high school, her parents suddenly died in a car accident, leaving her all alone.

From then on, she decided to seize the day and never procrastinate, because she knew that accidents and tomorrow were unpredictable, and her experience proved this painfully true.

Na Jun is not married yet, and she rarely sees him. He even criticizes her for playing around in her spare time. She can't even imagine what kind of life she will have after she gets married.

But her boyfriend, Na Jun, never listened to her ideas. Even if he compromised temporarily, he would soon go back to doing things his way.

“Brother He Chen…” Ruan Wan looked at him pleadingly, hoping he would stop talking, lest her new roommate and best friend Li Xiaoyue argue with her boyfriend or even break up.

"Looks like you're the saviors!" He Chen smiled upon seeing this: "The Song of Ice and Fire on the continent of Westeros, if sung well, can save the world!"
If you can't reconcile two extremes, you'll end up with a stubborn mind that gets stuck in two places.

When two extremes are reconciled, that is the wisdom of our ancestors—the doctrine of the mean!
Senior, Xiaoyue, don't be so extreme. We should trust in the wisdom of our ancestors!

Thanks to Ruan Wan's efforts to smooth things over and the waiter starting to serve the food, the dinner didn't end badly. Na Jun was in a bad mood and reluctantly didn't get up to leave, but he had a dark face and couldn't even be bothered to be polite.

In the original storyline, he met two people on his first blind date.

One was a female version of him, very calculating and utterly devoid of love. But when he finally said that marriage still required love, she sharply exposed his true thoughts.

He wants his partner to express love so that he can easily manipulate everything.

Then he remained silent, his face blank.

The second blind date was a rich second-generation returnee. The things she ordered almost made him nervous, as he thought she was a bar girl trying to take advantage of him.

Then he just held back his anger, leaned back tactically, and simply didn't look at the other person, preparing to leave with a long face.

In the end, he was mocked by a wealthy second-generation returnee as a "phoenix man" (a man from a poor background who achieves success in China), who said that doing this was to filter out such men, which really broke him down. Lies don't hurt, but the truth is the sharpest knife.

After two quick breakups, he went back to his ex-girlfriend, temporarily humbled himself, and reconciled with her.

Although He Chen's knife was fast, there was an innate sense of wariness between people of the same sex. It wouldn't be as abrupt as being stabbed by those two blind date partners, where the defenses were broken instantly without any warning.

Therefore, he can still hold back for now by categorizing He Chen as having ulterior motives.

Li Xiaoyue, on the other hand, ate very happily, with an expression that seemed to say she was getting her revenge for the unpleasantness from earlier.

Although some of He Chen's words made her unhappy and disagreed with them, she didn't dislike He Chen as much as she did her boyfriend.

First and foremost, He Chen's good looks make it hard for the opposite sex to be averse to him.

Secondly, the fact that He Chen and she both lost both parents gave her a sense of identification with He Chen and a stronger tolerance for her.

In addition, there's Ruan Wan's relationship with her, and He Chen's words, while not entirely agreeing with her actions, clearly show that compared to her boyfriend's extreme approach, He Chen admires her more and acknowledges that she shouldn't be constantly criticized and disliked by her boyfriend in their relationship.

So she wasn't really angry and planned to get her revenge, and that was how the matter was resolved.

When they had almost finished eating, He Chen finally revealed the real reason he had invited them to dinner: "Ruan Ruan is my sister. She wants to be independent and live on her own, so I couldn't object."

However, when I was in school, I was a disciplinary committee member, so I was quite obsessed with and even obsessive about some school rules and regulations. I felt that for the sake of everyone's well-being, it was necessary to uphold some reasonable agreements.

For example, accommodation regulations.

This is a shared apartment with three girls, essentially a girls' dormitory.

I know everyone has a boyfriend, and sometimes it's unavoidable to bring your boyfriend home.

After all, the purpose of sharing a rental is to be more economical.

But I still hope that this is limited to when my girlfriend is around, that she brings me back, that we go in and out together, and that it's confined to my own bedroom.

A boyfriend isn't allowed to visit his girlfriend when she's not home. That's not an unreasonable request, is it?

As he spoke, he looked at the invisible man's third roommate and her boyfriend.

In the original storyline, this boyfriend took advantage of his girlfriend's absence to come over and attempt to rape Li Xiaoyue.

He Chen definitely needs to take precautions against this kind of thing.

If Li Xiaoyue, who was quick to argue with her boss and fire him, is like this, then Ruan Wan, who is younger and prettier, is even more likely to attract the other party's covetousness.

He Chen's request was not unreasonable at all, and no one had any objections. Even if someone did have objections, it was hard to say. But He Chen certainly wouldn't stop there.

"Let me perform a magic trick for you all."

He Chen smiled and asked everyone to hand over their chopsticks one by one. He then held the seven pairs of chopsticks together in his hand and said, "They say that a single chopstick is easy to break, but a bundle of chopsticks is unbreakable. Now, you're about to witness a strange moment."

As he spoke, to everyone's astonishment, He Chen snapped the thick pair of chopsticks in two.

He Chen gave her boyfriend, whose pupils were wide open in shock, a meaningful look, and then smiled as she handed the broken chopsticks back to them, letting them check that they were indeed the real chopsticks they had just given her.

It's understandable that a person can break one or even three pairs of chopsticks, but this bundle of seven pairs (14 chopsticks) – and not the kind of disposable trash chopsticks, but rather high-quality wooden chopsticks – is simply outrageous.

This really has a magical feel to it.

What made the two boyfriends in the shared apartment even more uncomfortable was why He Chen chose the 'magic trick' of breaking chopsticks...

(End of this chapter)