Chapter 22 Money Can't Bring Happiness
I don’t know why Tang Wan’er suddenly wanted to tell me about her private affairs. But I didn’t refuse. Who asked me to spend money to ask me to chat with her?
"Do you know, today is my birthday." Tang Wan'er suddenly whispered: "But no one celebrates me. I have been having my birthday alone for many years."
Tang Wan'er's expression was faintly sad, and crystal tears appeared in her bright and beautiful eyes as bright as the morning star.
I asked her carefully, "What about your family?"
"My father has passed away long ago. After my mother remarried, she went abroad. In this country, I have... no relatives anymore..." Tang Wan'er said sadly: "I really envy those who can celebrate their birthdays with her family. How happy and happy it is. Unfortunately... I can never enjoy that happiness again."
I didn't know how I should persuade her, so I had to sit there silently.
Tang Wan'er stood up, poured herself a glass of red wine, and then sat back opposite me. She shook the wine glass in her hand, letting the bright red wine spin in the glass. Her beautiful eyes stared at the turbulent wine in the glass and said softly: "I was very happy when I was young. My father was a successful businessman, with a prosperous career and a happy family. I remember that at that time I lived like a princess in a fairy tale. No matter what I had, my father would try his best to satisfy me. From kindergarten to elementary school, to middle school, and college, I was the object of envy of all my classmates and friends. They all envy my happiness and joy. Life at that time was really carefree! I was as happy as a little bird all day, always laughing."
She raised the wine glass in her hand and took a sip: "But my happy life lasted until I went to college. My father suddenly had an acute heart attack during a business trip and died without leaving a word. My sky suddenly collapsed, and life was no longer sunshine, laughter, flowers, and even hope."
I asked curiously: "Why is this happening? Don't you still have a mother? Do you still have relatives?"
"Mom?" Tang Wan'er had a sarcastic smile on her lips: "That woman is not worthy of being my mother at all. I hate her! Do you want to know why I said that?"
I looked at her in confusion, not understanding why she said this to her mother. I guess her mother must have hurt her a lot.
Tang Wan'er smiled, but there was bitterness in her smile: "My mother is very beautiful, but she is also a vain woman. She married my father not because she loved my father so much, but because my father is a rich man! She loves money and wants to love my father extra. Otherwise, with her beauty and pride, she would never marry my father who looks ordinary and is a teenager older than her. These are what I only knew after my father passed away."
Tang Wan'er drank the glass of wine in one sip, stood up and poured a cup for herself, and said as she walked back, "After my father passed away, I left a huge inheritance. This made many people jealous. Everyone wanted to cut a large piece of cake from my father's inheritance and put it into their own. Uncle, aunt, and even my grandfather joined the ranks of competition. This is my relative, isn't it funny?"
I said calmly: "I don't find it funny, but sad. It's hard for anyone to keep his sanity in front of huge benefits. Money makes people forget family affection and friendship. They turn like a mad dog, chasing money madly."
"Well said it!" Tang Wan'er sat back in her seat: "My relatives were like a group of crazy dogs at that time. They fought hard for the bone of inheritance and even went to court. Everyone wanted to get a little more."
I was silent and didn't know how to evaluate her relatives. No wonder Tang Wan'er was so sad. After her father passed away, the depth of the harm she suffered to her was unpredictable.
I sighed, "Money is the source of all evil. But it is not the sin of money, but the fault of man."
"You are right. Money itself has no sin, it is people who have brought it a reputation." Tang Wan'er's big eyes stared at me without blinking: "Its huge temptation is rarely something that anyone can resist. If one day, you will choose one between 100 million US dollars and the one you love to stay, what would you do?"
"I don't know." I looked back at her calmly: "Because any assumption is not true. I don't know how I will make a decision when I really face it. But at least for now, I think I should leave the person I love. Money cannot replace feelings."
"Money cannot be exchanged for happiness." Tang Wan'er nodded and expressed her agreement: "I began to understand this from that time. I distributed the inheritance I deserve to be with those who came to take it away and wanted to continue living with my mother. However, what I got was an answer that made me even more disappointing - my mother told me that she was still young and could not just live with me for the rest of her life, she also had to pursue her own happiness. What's more ironic is that she, who said she loved her father so much, got along with a wealthy businessman from abroad less than two months after her father died. She also decided to get married immediately. After marriage, she would settle abroad with the man. Moreover, she was not going to take me there! She wanted to leave me alone!"
Two lines of tears slowly slid down Tang Wan'er's beautiful face, and her eyes were filled with sadness and sorrow. A little anger. Happy families are the same, while an unfortunate family has their own misfortunes. I forgot who said this sentence. Now I know it makes too reasonable. Rich people may not be very happy. I don't know how to comfort her. The most difficult thing to accept is the betrayal of relatives and friends, but all of them made her meet. Alas! Tang Wan'er drank the wine in her glass in one sip and wanted to pour it. I was afraid that she would drink to relieve her sorrows, so she quickly stopped her, "Okay, don't drink it anymore, you can get drunk like this."
Tang Wan'er smiled sadly: "What's wrong with being drunk? At least it will make me forget the pain for the time being."
I got up and snatched the wine glass from her: "Anesthetizing yourself will not relieve your pain. It will be even more sad when you wake up. Drinking sorrow is a manifestation of cowardice and incompetence. People should look far away and think about the beautiful things in life. For example, friendship and love. Let beautiful things make up for the pain in their hearts."
"Maybe you're right." Tang Wan'er looked at me, turned around and walked to the window, looked up at the dazzling night sky outside: "I thought so too. I asked you, what are the best feelings in the world?"
"Everyone has different understandings and different answers."
"What do you think it is?"
"Friendship, friendship and love. I think it's all beautiful."
"We have a consistent view." Tang Wan'er turned her head and smiled, then turned her eyes back to look at the lights of thousands of houses outside the window: "I can't get friendship. Maybe I was so proud of myself at the time, so no one was willing to be friends with me sincerely. When I needed friendship comfort, I couldn't get it. Since I lost family affection and could not get friendship comfort, then I would go and find love comfort! So, I decided to get married and marry myself. Find someone I love.
The man who loves himself lives happily with him. So I married a boy I met in college. His family affairs are very good, and his father is a very rich man. He has been pursuing me for a long time. He is very handsome and I like him very much. Out of pride, I rejected his courtship. But now it is different. I no longer have the capital to be proud, and I have changed from a princess to a Cinderella. He was my best choice at that time."
"After we got married, I felt very happy. It seemed that the joy of the past had returned to my life." Tang Wan'er's voice was soft, as if immersed in the memories of that wonderful time, but her tone changed immediately: "But, the time of happiness is short. I soon discovered that he was not a good man. In addition to me, he had several women outside, and those were his mistresses. This caused me to suffer greater harm, and I decided to divorce him. However, his parents dissuaded me. They were two kind and kind old men, and it was their spoiling for their only son that made him a wild horse that did not obey anyone's discipline. Under the old man's begging, I stayed. However, our marriage was already in name only. It was just in front of outsiders that we had to pretend to be loving. At that time, I had lost all hope in life, and even thought of suicide."
I understand her mood at that time. The greatest sorrow is the death of her heart. After experiencing the ruthless abandonment of her relatives, she was deceived by her own lover, which no one could bear. Didn’t I think of death when I was in that darkest day?
"Fortunately an accidental car accident helped me get out of this nightmare." Tang Wan'er let out a sigh of relief: "He and his lover drove to a trip and died on the spot. I was only relieved. His parents are really the few kind old men in the world. After their son died, they treated me very well. And before they immigrated abroad in dishearteningly, they gave me half of their property. Since then, I have been living alone in loneliness. This is my story. Now you know, it is not only you who have sad things, and none of them have some memories that make him painful in their hearts." Tang Wan'er looked at me and looked much more relaxed. It seemed that after she told this sad past, her real personal relaxation was much easier.
I didn't expect that her story would be so tortuous and bizarre that she could almost shoot a TV series. I felt sorry for her in my heart, a miserable woman! I don't know how to make her happy again.
Chapter completed!