The good girl steps down—why is the Beijing playboy jealous?

[A playboy who treats life like a game · a clear-headed obedient girl + a person in power lowering their head + chasing wife into the crematorium + both are pure]

Ling Jue is the wind you can never hold onto.

Qin Shuyi is a quiet, carefree willow.

One is free and uninhibited, the other disciplined and proper.

The two utterly different people begin with a casual “just playing around” and end with an ordinary “I’m bored.”

It is a game of a reformed playboy, and everyone who joins only invests three parts of their heart.

*

That day Ling Jue ran into an obedient girl who suited him in every way.

She was very compliant, not clingy, not greedy, with no demands and no talk of the future.

He said, “I don’t want to get married.”

She said, “Okay.”

He said, “I don’t like children.”

She silently nodded.

All the absurd choices that ran counter to her well-behaved life, she accepted them all.

Everyone said Qin Shuyi was madly in love with Ling Jue.

*

Until one day, he said he was bored and said they should break up.

She did not make a scene; she only replied, “Okay.”

Ling Jue thought that as long as she spoke up, they could also play together for a lifetime.

But the person who had always been obedient left with calm and resolve.

When they meet again, it is at a blind date table with another man.

She speaks eloquently, talking about marriage and the future, her eyes shining.

Only then does Ling Jue suddenly realize that everything that had once seemed fine was just because she did not care.

She would never marry him, would never have his child.

He, Ling Jue, had never been part of Qin Shuyi’s future.

*

She said they were never suited.

She said, Ling Jue, this was only ever “just playing around.”

The one who seemed carefree loses so badly he has nothing left; the one who seems affectionate is colder and clearer-headed than anyone else.

Later, in the darkness, with red eyes, he accuses and begs word by word:

“Qin Shuyi, you have no heart.”

“Qin Shuyi, look back at me. I am not dirty.”

“Please.”