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"In the afternoon, she kept calling back, and then at night, I had to rush home, which made her angry."
"She said I never thought about things for our life together, that it was always her who prepared everything when we went out. I couldn't provide her with emotional value, and she felt being married was less happy than being alone."
"If that's the case, what's the use of having a husband? Then she mentioned wanting a bigger house. She said that looking at the small balcony every day was depressing, unbearable."
Upon hearing this, Xu Qingyan didn't know how to console him.
Such relationships are difficult to define; trivial matters add up to become the entirety of life. But one must be born and strive to live, which Zhou Mian simply couldn't achieve.
Not to mention Zhou Mian, even Xu Qingyan himself couldn't claim to balance life and work.
Life that comes rushing in, taken up in one go.