Mature love after setbacks
Another neighbor has been featured on TV. It’s said that when the interview car arrived, the neighborhood ladies were very excited and almost crowded together to go and watch.
Auntie Bai, the star host of the Shanghai Channel’s mediation program, stepped out of the interview car and banged on the involved party’s door. When an elderly man poked his head out and tried to shut the door, Auntie Bai forcefully pulled it open: “Don’t be like this, we are here to solve the problem!”
The problem was simple: a live-in son-in-law had suddenly been kicked out by his father-in-law’s family. The court had already ruled for a divorce, but the man couldn’t accept this reality and decided to seek justice from Auntie Bai.
This situation was somewhat like those terminal patients who, after being declared incurable by Western medicine, refuse to give up and turn to traditional Chinese medicine for a solution.
All mediation programs aim to resolve issues that courts can’t, hoping to bring justice to the world.
The story of the last neighbor who appeared on TV went like this: as a divorced woman, she found a boyfriend planning to remarry. Because of her favorable family conditions with three resettlement apartments, the man’s parents were brought over from their hometown and occupied one of the woman’s apartments.
The woman’s parents were unhappy, as they wanted to rent it out, but the man felt it was only right for his parents to live there. Didn’t they have any sense of family and humanity?
The man thought he had already compromised enough by finding a divorced woman to marry, and as compensation, he also took 100,000 yuan from her family. When the woman suddenly realized that marrying this man was a great humiliation, she neither had the ability to kick out the man and his family nor to reclaim the already spent 100,000 yuan.
So, she and her parents, the three of them, sat in the TV studio, tearfully demanding justice.
It’s said that after the program aired, the man felt utterly humiliated, returned the house, repaid the money, and then vanished from the world. Although the woman got her money and house back, some elderly ladies still felt it wasn’t worth it, wondering if she could still find a man in the future after such public exposure.
People from the countryside never thought of going on TV unless they were desperate. The recently kicked-out live-in son-in-law was the same, seeking an explanation. He could only stay temporarily at his parents’ house, but his parents’ house belonged to his elder brother.
Having already become a live-in son-in-law, there was no turning back. To still have a roof over his head and a bed to sleep in, his only request was not to get divorced.
This man angrily displayed a lot of evidence on TV: his wife had long been unemployed, and the only time she worked as a cashier at a supermarket, she was fired for petty theft.
After they started the divorce proceedings, he secretly followed her while she took their child to school and successfully caught her cheating. After catching her in the act, his wife knelt down and apologized, and they even happily went out to eat in town together.
The man had recorded the conversation, where during the meal, the woman said, “Husband, I won’t dare do it again.” The husband laughed and said, “So, you won’t be with him anymore?” The woman replied, “Yes, I’ll definitely stay with you.” It was practically harmonious.
Later, he was kicked out because of his huge gambling debts, and his father-in-law’s family didn’t want to risk having their house mortgaged. But he still wanted to go on TV, hoping for a chance to tell everyone that a woman like his wife could only match a man like him.
Guess what happened after the show aired? The neighborhood ladies actually advised the father-in-law’s family: “Why not remarry? Your daughter is like this; who else would want to marry her in the future?”
In the lower strata of emotional life, true feelings seem completely irrelevant. It’s not about moral integrity or real emotions; it’s all about practical benefits. Houses are always the biggest reason for couples to turn against each other or lovers to become enemies, and a man trying to take down a woman always brings up her improper conduct as evidence.
No matter how much of a gambler a husband is, as long as his wife also has some indiscretions, he immediately gets a chance for moral judgment to be retried.
Locals hold millions worth of property, but their salaries are perpetually awkward at just three thousand yuan a month, so naturally, the house becomes something they must have no matter how bad things get.
As for true love and dignity, these can be temporarily disregarded. Human dignity can only stand up and speak once they have a place to live.
That man went on a blind date at 28 and said he didn’t want to get married, but people around him persuaded him to settle down because he was getting old. Seven years later, he indeed fulfilled his destiny, desperately wanting to continue the compromise no matter what.
Thank you for reading! ” Sitestorys “
