Chapter 136: Did He Steal Your Business?

Chapter 136: Chapter 136: Did He Steal Your Business?

"Sis, can you hear me?"

"Yes, I can. Good evening, Teacher. I’ve been watching your stream for a while and have been wanting to connect."

"Connecting is no problem, but first, can you walk me through the situation? Describe the conversation you had with your boyfriend."

"Did he really agree to you coming on for relationship counseling?"

"As a man myself, I’m finding it a little hard to understand his thinking."

Zhang Zhe was still being cautious. ’I can’t just blindly believe what this woman is saying.’

’If she’s making this up, stringing her boyfriend along while looking for an upgrade, and then dumps him, it’ll be a huge mess if the guy comes to my stream to "hang himself."’

There have been cases of men threatening the court, saying that if the judge dared to grant a divorce, they’d show up with a knife and take out the judge.

There are plenty of men who lose their heads over a woman.

"My boyfriend is very confident. He thinks that with my qualifications, I can’t find anyone better than him."

"I told him he was PUA-ing me, but he said he wasn’t. He said if I don’t believe him, I can go ask other people."

"So, here I am."

[The moment this woman started talking, I could tell she’s high-maintenance.]

[Sis, be careful, your boyfriend might be in this stream right now.]

[I think she’s got it backward. She’s probably the one PUA-ing her boyfriend, right?]

[Why not have her boyfriend join too? I remember Xiaohongshu allows multi-person calls.]

"So who’s PUA-ing whom?" Zhang Zhe asked, confused. "In your daily conversations, who’s the one that usually says things like, ’Who would want you besides me?’"

"Well... I think we both do."

"Haha, then you two must be a real couple," Zhang Zhe said with a laugh.

In a typical PUA situation between a couple, one person will find all sorts of ways to put the other down, criticizing everything from their looks, body, and personality to their family background. At the same time, they’ll emphasize that their partner is so terrible that they’re the only one who would ever want them.

But if both people are saying it, that’s just a couple bantering.

"Alright, let’s see who’s really in the wrong here, you or your boyfriend."

"Okay, should I start listing my stats?"

"I was born in 2000, I’m from Hu Jian, and in terms of looks, out of 100 people, I’d rank in the top 5..."

[Reporting, my lord! I did some recon. This girl is just average.]

[I checked her profile. A 3 out of 10, tops.]

[Top 5 out of 1000, you’d have to be at least a 5/10.]

A woman’s looks are her primary asset on the marriage market. It’s not necessarily the most valuable one, but it’s always the first thing people consider.

When a Matchmaker introduces a girl, if she’s stunningly beautiful at first sight, men will want to get to know her, even if she’s a divorced single mother.

The prerequisite, of course, is that she can’t have any tattoos.

"Miss, you’re not in the top 5. Top 20, at most."

"You’re slightly above average."

"No way!" The woman immediately got defensive at Zhang Zhe’s words. "I’m definitely top-5 material! Otherwise, how could my boyfriend have picked me out of a crowd at a single glance?"

"?" Zhang Zhe thought for a moment, then asked her in return, "Then where do you think I’d rank among 100 guys?"

"You? Teacher, you’re pretty handsome. I’d say you could rank in the top three."

"Okay, fair enough."

[Host, stop messing around.]

[Nothing wrong with that. That’s just the girl’s aesthetic.]

[My take is, sis needs to get her eyes checked. The host is top ten at best, and that’s *with* a beauty filter.]

[Maybe in her eyes, at least 50 out of every 100 people are on the level of Sister Feng.]

Everyone has different standards for beauty. This girl rates herself highly, but she also rates others highly. Since she’s not using a double standard, it’s fine.

Some girls always try to say something nice about people’s looks. They could see a 220-pound girl and still call her "cute."

You can’t expect people like that to be objective.

"Let’s continue. What’s your current work situation?"

"Right now I’m in a city in Zhejiang, working at a bank. My monthly salary is over 7,000."

"My parents are business owners. The family assets should be around 12 million. I have an older sister who isn’t married yet, and she’s currently helping our parents with the business."

"Is she your full sister?"

"Of course! What, did you think she was adopted or something?"

"As long as she is. I was just asking," Zhang Zhe said with a small laugh, not bothering to explain.

[Brother Zhang is worried you might be an illegitimate child.]

[If that’s the case, doesn’t that mean the family business will all go to your sister?]

[You can tell this girl has been well-protected by her family.]

[It’s fine. As long as you and your sister have a good relationship, you can be a little princess forever.]

"With your qualifications, hasn’t anyone at your workplace tried to set you up with someone?" Zhang Zhe asked curiously. "How did you and your boyfriend meet?"

"We met when he came to my company to handle some business."

"I was his point of contact for a while."

’That works too?’ Zhang Zhe had seen guys pick up girls, but he’d never seen someone hit on a bank employee. ’This dude has some serious balls. Isn’t he afraid she’ll just transfer all his savings away if they break up?’

You have to understand, if a bank employee secretly transfers your money out, going to the bank is useless. They won’t take responsibility.

The real kicker was: this girl really wasn’t pretty.

’Guess every pot really does have its lid?’

"What about your boyfriend’s stats? Is his family rich?"

"He’s not that rich, I guess. Not quite at ten million yet."

"What does that mean? Is he one yuan short of having 10 million?"

"He’s short by a few hundred thousand, I think. Or maybe he already has it. I don’t really know," the woman said, a bit vaguely. "My boyfriend runs his own business. He probably earns about two to three million a year."

"How old is he?"

"29."

"Are you sure? 29 years old, running a business, and earning two million a year? Have you verified this income? That’s already making the leap from an employee to a boss. That’s not your average person."

"I’ve verified it. He started his business right after graduating from college. He’s on TB and PDD. It’s all hard-earned money."

"Did his family help him when he started his business?" Zhang Zhe continued to inquire.

"No, his family is from a rural area in Datong. He came to Zhejiang with his parents a long time ago and they’ve settled down here."

"I see. In that case, he’s still very impressive."

Zhang Zhe asked the woman, "Did you see that guy from Ali with the 985 bachelor’s and master’s degrees earlier? If you ignore the obsession with elite education, his current stats are far worse than your boyfriend’s."

"And your stats are definitely not as good as that only daughter from the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai region."

"So, your boyfriend’s hard stats are much, much better than yours."

"Huh?"

"But my parents want me to find someone like that guy from Ali, someone with a stable job, or a government position."

"A government job would be best."

"Why?" Zhang Zhe asked, not understanding. "Is there something wrong with your current boyfriend?"

"A flaw... He’s a bit of a male chauvinist. Does that count?"

"Is he usually generous with you?"

"Very generous."

"So, does his male chauvinism make you uncomfortable? For example, do you feel like your independence as a person is being insulted?"

"No."

"Then that doesn’t count as a flaw," Zhang Zhe said with certainty.

You can’t expect a boss who started his own business to not have a hint of male chauvinism. Given the current business environment, any boss definitely needs to have the air of a traditional, decisive man.

Even many female bosses are like that.

And the more traditional the industry, the more pronounced this phenomenon becomes.

"Why don’t your parents like him?"

"Because he’s a businessman."

"Aren’t your parents also business owners?" Zhang Zhe was baffled. "Did he steal your family’s business or something?"