Super Soldier in the City

Li Yifei smiled as he met the gaze of the three people and said, "I can understand your confusion about the future, so why not find a man you truly like before getting married and then fight for it? Maybe you can actually end up together? Even if you can’t really be together, at least you would have loved passionately, and there would be no regrets in this lifetime."

Xiao Ling’er laughed bitterly and said, "Do you think we haven’t thought of that?"

Zheng Yuling also shook her head and said, "It’s not that we lack the courage of Mengxin, but we lack her capacity. Mengxin has the strong ability to back her up no matter what she does. Even if she makes a mistake, nobody can do anything to her, but we can’t do that. Although we are also from prominent families, our parents are not valued, and we ourselves have no capabilities. We are destined to be pawns for marriage alliances. If we resist, we can take the risk, but our parents would lose even the little status they have within the family and be further marginalized. Our actions don’t just affect us, they involve many other people."

Su Mengfei sighed and said, "It’s only because my cousin has always taken good care of me that I have been able to live so carefree until now. Otherwise, I would have been married off long ago. Even with my cousin helping me, my parents are already getting anxious for me to marry off."

Although Li Yifei also knew a little about the affairs of these great clans, he was ignorant of such complicated relationships. It turned out that Xiao Ling’er and the others didn’t wish to resist; it was that due to various relationships, they simply couldn’t. Normally, they appeared carefree, but in reality, their carefreeness was because they had no future; it was a form of escapism. Seeing them from this angle, the three seemed quite pitiful.

Suddenly, Xiao Ling’er laughed a few times, but then tears flowed from her eyes, and she began to cry on the table.

Li Yifei hadn’t expected Xiao Ling’er to react so strongly at that moment and was about to comfort her when Zheng Yuling sighed and said, "Let her cry. Of the three of us, it’s only Ling’er who had a boyfriend. But before she even got to know the guy well, he was warned by her family and he quickly ran away."

Li Yifei’s mouth twitched as he said, "That guy is really irresponsible. Such a man isn’t worth being sad over."

Su Mengfei gave Li Yifei a look and said, "Not everyone has the courage to confront families like ours. Let alone the large families of Capital City, even ordinary rich people can easily scare away a man who isn’t firm in his stance."

Zheng Yuling spoke mournfully, "With Ling’er as a cautionary tale, we just don’t want to have boyfriends anymore. It’s not about seeking happiness but courting torture. If the man were to bear this with us and resist with us, it would be ’the weak can’t overpower the strong,’ and the man would easily get hurt. To love only to have someone hurt is painful for us too."