Flash Marriage: The Billionaire Addicted to Her-Chapter 692

Chen Wei: "This really adds fuel to my fear of marriage!"

"You, you fear marriage?" Ye Yuning’s eyes twitched as she looked at Chen Wei.

They had worked together for so many years, and she really didn’t know.

Chen Wei: "I wasn’t afraid of marriage before, but after seeing you and Tang Xi, I became afraid. It’s the truth! I also saw the injuries Jiang Bo inflicted on Tang Xi back then. They were doing so well, so in love, and then she ended up with a domestic abuser. Terrifying. Then there was your relationship. It seemed good, right? Someone picked you up and dropped you off from work every day. And what happened? That whole scene... just thinking about it is horrifying. His family even wanted to send you to prison; they wanted to kill you. What on earth was that all about?"

Ye Yuning: "..."

Ye Yuning: "I’m very sorry for causing you such a mental scar."

Chen Wei: "It’s not just about you and Tang Xi. Mainly, it’s that people in society nowadays seem to treat marriage so frivolously. If it’s so frivolous, so unstable, it’s totally just like a trial in life."

But some trials came with a price, and Chen Wei didn’t want to pay that price. So, thinking about it, she felt she could go without marriage!

"Actually, marriage is not as terrifying as you think, really," Ye Yuning said, trying to dispel Chen Wei’s worries. "Marriage, no matter what you encounter, should still be approached positively."

Chen Wei: "What about you? If you meet someone now who treats you better than Seventh Master Xiao, would you marry him?"

Ye Yuning: "..."

The air quieted.

Chen Wei’s question seemed casual, but it was actually very serious. In her view, Ye Yuning had been so hurt this time because of Seventh Master Xiao. From an outsider’s perspective, forgiveness was truly impossible. Since forgiveness was impossible, then after such a great hurt, would she still be moved by someone better? Or perhaps, in reality, she couldn’t escape that shadow?

"Ah..." After a while, Ye Yuning sighed.

Obviously, facing such a question from Chen Wei, she genuinely didn’t know how to respond.

Chen Wei: "I certainly don’t want such an unpleasant experience!"

"Experience?" Ye Yuning looked at Chen Wei in shock.

Chen Wei always had such a clear view of things and held very proper values. It was hard to believe that now, when discussing marriage, she would actually use the word ’experience’!

Chen Wei nodded. "Nowadays, people get married at the drop of a hat and divorce if they’re unhappy. If that’s not treating it as an ’experience,’ what is?"

Ye Yuning: "..."

Experience! Yes, for many people nowadays, marriage seemed like an experience. Stay together if happy, separate if not. What about children? In this ’experience,’ once there were children, what did they count for in their parents’ world? Did children not even have the right to choose a complete family?

Ye Yuning fell silent.

She disagreed with Chen Wei’s current view of marriage, but at the same time, it seemed to reflect the current state of society.

Chen Wei: "Moreover, marriages nowadays encounter quite a lot of troubles."

Ye Yuning: "Hm?"

Chen Wei: "The initial breakdown of Tang Xi’s marriage was because of constant interference from her in-laws."

Ye Yuning: "..."

Chen Wei: "After your relationship with Seventh Master Xiao was fully exposed, the initial opposition came from the Xiao Family’s side, right? After all, you had been engaged to Xiao Shuo, and Seventh Master Xiao is Xiao Shuo’s seventh uncle. With the generational hierarchy all mixed up, the elders of the Xiao Family definitely wouldn’t have agreed to it."

Ye Yuning took a deep breath.

Ye Yuning: "Yes, the family elders!"

Such voices of opposition were impossible to block out.

Chen Wei: "That’s it. That’s the beginning of an unpleasant experience."

Ye Yuning: "..."

Chen Wei: "Originally, marriage is a matter between two people, but then it ends up involving a whole crowd of people! Before marriage, if the family elders opposed it, well, that was that; at worst, you just wouldn’t get together. But you and Tang Xi were both already married, and still, the family elders were meddling this way and that. It’s very annoying. Modern marriages are actually not as good as those of the previous generation."

"The previous generation’s?" Ye Yuning was shocked.

She really hadn’t studied these marriage issues. What the current situation was like, or how things were for the previous generation, or even the one before that—she truly didn’t know.

Chen Wei: "That might not have been your experience, but didn’t you notice with Tang Xi’s marriage?"

Ye Yuning: "Noticed what?"

Chen Wei: "Ever since she got married, her mother-in-law insisted on living with them."

Ye Yuning: "..."

That really seemed to be true. It wasn’t long after her mother-in-law moved in that Jiang Bo started to show his true, abusive nature. At that time, Ye Yuning had also realized that Jiang Bo’s mother wasn’t a good person. But now that Chen Wei put it that way, it seemed such situations were quite common!

Chen Wei continued, "In older generations’ marriages, whether the families were poor or rich, many elders would propose separating the households after their sons got married. Back then, there weren’t many houses, but even if a son got just one room, they would still separate. After separating, they lived their own lives entirely, and there wouldn’t be so many conflicts. When you’re essentially bringing strangers together, like a new wife into the family, how can you expect so much tolerance from the outset?"