The Cost Of Love: Sometimes Love Can Be Painfully Cheap
The girl traveled alone from the south to the north, arriving in a strange city with no familiar faces. Her own resilience often surprised her. Having witnessed the materialistic nature of love in the city, she firmly rejected the idea of exchanging emotions for material things.
The girl fell in love. Her habit of independence meant she rarely asked the boy for anything material. Even when they went out together, she would spend her own money, and sometimes she would even satisfy the boy’s material needs within her capacity.
The girl loved flowers and longed for the boy to give her some, even just a small bloom. However, the boy believed flowers were useless since they couldn’t be eaten or drunk and cost money, so he never gave her any. As a result, the girl would occasionally buy flowers herself and place them in her room. She comforted herself by thinking that the boy was just practical and not very romantic or emotional.
One day, the girl saw a pair of warm shoes in a mall that she really liked, priced at 268 yuan. Thinking about how she didn’t have a warm pair of shoes for winter, she wanted to buy them. With Christmas approaching, she decided to ask the boy for them on her way home that evening.
After hearing her request, the boy started criticizing her for being wasteful and not knowing how to manage money. Feeling wronged and upset, the girl went home alone. When she got to the door, she realized she had forgotten her keys. Remembering the boy’s criticism, she angrily kicked off her old, year-worn shoes that left her feet cold and sat by the door, crying.
When the boy came home and saw her sitting by the door in her socks, he dragged her inside and continued to scold her for being so headstrong. Angry, the girl ran out of the house in her socks, hoping the boy would come after her.
The girl sat outside the door, waiting. On a winter night in the north, the temperature was very low, and as time passed, her heart grew colder. When she saw the boy turn off the lights to go to sleep, her heart froze and quickly turned to anger. The boy had never truly cared about her… She angrily kicked open the door, packed her things, and prepared to leave. As she was about to go, the boy, without a trace of compassion, violently beat her.
One day after work, the girl was walking alone on the street when she saw a beautifully decorated shoe store. She went in to have a look and immediately saw the same pair of shoes she had liked in the mall. The shop owner came over with a smile and said, “Miss, you have a good eye. These shoes sell for 268 yuan in the mall. How about this? Since you like them so much, I’ll give them to you at half price!” The girl bought the shoes for 135 yuan. Looking at the shoes she had once loved, she thought about the suffering behind them, and tears filled her eyes… Sometimes, love can be so heartbreakingly cheap!
In fact, a glass of cool water in summer, a scarf, or a pair of gloves in winter, although not expensive, can bring care and love that money can’t buy. However, some feelings are so cheap they’re not worth even a few pennies!
Thank you for reading! ” Sitestorys “
