Marriage and Love Story 2: The Hired Third Party
He was a successful businessman, and she was a typical white-collar beauty. Both had their own social circles. She, being worldly-wise, had seen enough stories of the “high-class men” in her circle and wondered if her husband might be the same.
One day, she received a text message on her phone: “Private detective, here to ease your worries.” She felt a pang of curiosity and dialed the number. The next day, a beautiful saleswoman appeared in her husband’s office, offering him extremely “favorable” conditions, even including her body as part of the deal. He refused her outright, very decisively. When he returned home, his wife had prepared a lavish dinner to reward his loyalty. The next day, he asked for a divorce. She suddenly remembered an Estonian proverb: “The birch stick you bring yourself hurts the most.”
Love should never be tested or probed; marriage must always be built on mutual trust and respect.
Marriage and Love Story : Sun-dried Radish Strips
Downstairs lived an elderly couple. The man was a retired official, and the woman had been a chief physician at a major hospital before she retired. They had two children: one was a middle-level official in a bureau, and the other was studying abroad.
One evening in early autumn, I saw the elderly woman turning over radishes to dry. I was curious, thinking that with her background, would she still need to make her own pickles? I asked her, “Aunt Zhang, do you still make pickled vegetables at home?” The elderly woman, full of grace, smiled with a face full of happiness and replied, “Your Uncle Wang loves the pickled radishes I make. He’s eaten them all his life and never gets tired of them. In the past, no matter how busy I was with work, I would make time to dry radishes for him, let alone now that we’re retired and have plenty of time.”
Watching the elderly woman turning over the radishes, I suddenly thought of Lin Yutang’s famous saying: “To love someone, start with their stomach.” For those who have weathered the storms of decades-long marriages, love may truly be found in a bowl, in the “radish strips.”
Not every love is earth-shattering; genuine, simple, and unpretentious love is a profound state of marriage.
Thank you for reading! ” Sitestorys “
