Chapter 242 - 240: The Scumbag Girl Wants to Settle Down

Chapter 242: Chapter 240: The Scumbag Girl Wants to Settle Down

[I’m straight, but I love watching men dance. It’s way more interesting than watching women dance.]

[Brother Zhang, hold back your laughter. You have to respect everyone’s sexual orientation.]

[It really takes until middle age for a man to realize what he truly likes.]

[This dude’s casting a wide net, isn’t he? Someone’s probably going to slide into his DMs soon.]

Zhang Zhe looked at the stream chat and thought they had a point.

This guy might have come to the stream to put out a personals ad.

Although Zhang Zhe wasn’t Nantong, after hearing what the man had to say, he grew very curious about what this person looked like.

What kind of commanding features could one have that, even without a full beard, would allow other men to accurately identify his sexual orientation?

"Brother Zhang, I’m really not GAY. I’m straight."

"What kind of straight? The mosquito coil kind?"

"A mosquito coil? Isn’t that still curvy? Argh, what do I have to do to make you believe me?"

"Easy there, brother, don’t get worked up."

Zhang Zhe could hear the man getting a little heated, so he quickly tried to calm him down. "Look, whether we believe you or not isn’t really important."

"What’s crucial is that you figure out what you really want right now."

"Right, that’s exactly what I can’t figure out." The man seemed to have misunderstood Zhang Zhe’s meaning and muttered to himself for a long time.

One moment he was talking about wanting to publish a paper, the next about getting a promotion.

Even Xia Yi couldn’t listen anymore. She whispered to Zhang Zhe, "You were just hinting that he should figure out if he likes men or women, right?"

"Yeah." Zhang Zhe nodded and whispered back, "I think he’s probably already thinking about it. He’s just rambling, but I bet his mind is racing."

"So, is he what the chat calls ’deep in the closet’?"

"I think so. I mean, when I watch videos of Nantong pole dancing, I really can’t find anything to appreciate."

"You’ve actually watched those kinds of videos?" Xia Yi looked shocked.

"Couldn’t be helped. Some bad influence recommended them to me." Zhang Zhe shrugged helplessly.

When you’re in a highly active chat group, you’ll get a chance to see all sorts of things. Let alone Nantong videos, you might even stumble upon *The Human Centipede*.

Sometimes your finger is too fast, and you click on it out of reflex. By the time you realize what you’re seeing, it’s already too late.

After the man finished his rambling, Zhang Zhe nodded cooperatively.

"Right. It’s all up to you now. Outsiders can’t really help much. Only when you realize what you want for yourself will you find a direction."

"You can still do a bit more... experimenting."

"I don’t really dare to experiment anymore, sigh." The man sighed. "Maybe I’ll just stay single. It’s not like my family expects me to carry on the family line or anything. As long as I’m happy, that’s what matters."

"That works too. In your situation, focusing on your career is a valid path."

Zhang Zhe couldn’t very well advise the guy to go to Chengdu to find his true love, so telling him that being single was fine was, of course, not a problem.

[He should consult with relationship bloggers like Brother Zhang more often. He’ll get tons of DMs from guys that way.]

[It seems like very few doctors come out. With his profession, he’d be considered top-tier in the Nantong circle.]

[A male doctor like him getting hit on by other guys... he must be sending out some kind of signal that people are picking up on.]

Zhang Zhe felt the chat’s analysis made a lot of sense. The guy must have revealed his orientation somewhere.

Otherwise, no man would proactively hit on a normal-looking guy in a doctor’s white coat.

After the man left the call, Zhang Zhe looked at the chat to brainstorm and came up with a very reasonable explanation.

"That guy just said he likes to watch Nantong pole dancing. Is it possible that while we’re all scrolling through short videos on Douyin, he’s watching it live at a bar?"

"That would explain everything!"

After saying this, Zhang Zhe felt like he’d cracked the case.

This would also explain why the guy had a low libido—if he was having the time of his life at a ’Big Bird-Go-Round Bar’, of course he wouldn’t be interested in women, right?

"I never knew our stream was full of hidden masters. Every single one of you is something else."

As Zhang Zhe marveled at this, he connected with the next viewer for a free consultation.

’Finally, not a paying user. I can be a bit more casual with this one.’

A woman came on and first listed her stats:

"I was born in ’99, 5’9", 119 pounds, and a graduate of the national police university..."

"Hold on," Zhang Zhe interrupted her. "You mean the school that trains Puriman?"

"That’s right."

"So you’re one of the people who wears the hat?"

"I am," the woman replied straightforwardly.

"Does someone with your job even need to go on blind dates?" Zhang Zhe was very curious.

He hadn’t had much contact with women in this profession. Generally speaking, don’t they all just get matched up internally?

"My situation is a little different from the usual. I’m an only child, but my parents have passed away."

"So I’ve always lived for myself, doing whatever I please."

"A lot of people tried to set me up before, but I refused them all. Now that I actually want to get married, no one is introducing me to anyone."

"Oh." Zhang Zhe understood part of it but was still puzzled. "Then why the sudden desire to get married now?"

"You were born in ’99. Logically, you shouldn’t be in a rush yet. Normally, people don’t start thinking about marriage until after their 30th birthday."

[She’s probably tired of playing around and wants to settle down.]

[Careful what you say, brothers. I’m afraid one of us might get a ’visit to check the water meter.’]

[For someone like her looking to get married, you have to look at her family background. With no parents, she’s basically an orphan.]

[Without a parental safety net, marriage feels very risky. She should find a man with a really good family background, otherwise, there could be problems after the wedding.]

The chat was already considering the implications of the woman’s parents being gone.

But Zhang Zhe’s attention was still on her motive.

Because what the woman said was very interesting. Her reason for refusing blind dates wasn’t that she was too busy with work or didn’t want to find someone.

Instead, she said she lived for herself.

In Zhang Zhe’s view, this meant she was likely the type who preferred short-term flings.

She might not be a "player," but she definitely had plenty of relationship experience, and probably a wild dating life.

For a woman like that to suddenly show up for a blind date, her motive was highly suspicious.

"Well, I’m not that far from thirty," the woman said with a laugh. "The main reason is that my aunt came back from abroad a while ago. She had a long talk with me and told me to get married soon."

"After my parents passed, my aunt is the closest relative I have. What she said really hit home, and after thinking it over, I felt she had a point."

"I see." Zhang Zhe believed her story. The reason was solid enough.

"So what kind of man are you looking for?"

"With your qualifications, it shouldn’t be hard to find someone within the system. Just give me a general direction, and I can help you narrow it down."

"Okay, thank you, Brother Zhang." The woman was quite polite. "I’m hoping to find a man who really understands women, someone I can share common interests with, and who’s a bit more interesting."

"As for build and looks, it’d be best if they were good. I’m not obsessed with looks, but since my own stats are pretty decent, I hope we can be a well-matched pair."