Chapter 704: Gather Where It’s Lively
"I can’t make promises on behalf of Jingting, but I can assure you that I will live a good life in the future."
"Men are not always reliable, what makes you think your good intentions are enough?"
"But besides Jingting, I have my academic and future career. I have two lovely children, and the best parents in the world. Why can’t I live a good life? If one day I can’t continue to be with Jingting, I would be very sad, but my world would not collapse. I have other things in my life to keep me moving forward."
This was a new viewpoint for Lijun and it greatly intrigued her.
"Being Yu Jingting’s wife is just one of my identities. I love Jingting deeply, but he is not everything in my life. Besides him, I also love you, my father, our children, my career, and everything else worthy of love. I am an independent individual and I don’t need others to be responsible for my happiness. I can be responsible for myself."
"Fundamentally, Jingting and I are the same. He loves me deeply, he loves our children, his career, his parents, and his sister. Even though we are the most important to each other, we both have our own worlds. What I love about him is his passion for life.
If I keep him tied to myself and clip his wings, he won’t be the person I love. Similarly, if he wants me to be a conventional housewife like my grandmother, curbing my ambition, I won’t be the woman he loves."
"I will grow together with him. However high he soars, I aim to soar just as high. Even if we should encounter problems in our marriage, by then I will have my own capabilities, and I will have more options. I won’t be left in a dead-end."
"For instance, my grandmother didn’t lack resentment towards my grandfather, she just couldn’t afford to leave him. While married, she was a respected professor’s wife, but if she chose divorce, she would be nothing more than any other ordinary old lady. Look at my grandmother’s two sisters, they live carefreely even without their partners."
"They could have been somebody else’s wives, but they were also known as Professor Hao who taught music, and Specialist Hao who repaired cultural relics. Being a wife is only one of a woman’s identities, it shouldn’t define her entirety. We have our own names, and we should also have our own careers."
"My pursuit in life is that when others introduce me as Yu Jingting’s wife, they will also introduce Jingting as my husband."