Backup Plan
The blow from the goddess to the little mage far exceeded his expectations.
As a result, his previous defeat was just like floating clouds.
The Jin Dynasty poet Yuan Haowen once wrote:
What is love in this world, which makes people willing to live and die together?
——“Touching Fish Tune: Geese Mound Song”
The little mage is a sentimental kid. When he was still in the mage academy, he had a crush on a girl. He pursued her for three years, and on her birthday, while waiting for her downstairs with a well-prepared gift, he discovered that she was happily with another guy.
Everyone experiences moments of disillusionment. After three years of suffering, the little mage finally had an epiphany.
From that point on, he immersed himself in magic and eventually became a great master.
Of course, that only happened in novels.
At that time, campus recruitment had already begun, and the little mage hurriedly went to participate. Unfortunately, he ended up with an embarrassing result.
The little mage thought that after his epiphany, he would be invincible and always rational, never getting confused about matters of the heart.
But he forgot about the ancient philosopher Heraclitus, who once said:
No man ever steps in the same river twice.
The little mage, of course, didn’t defy this rule. He just fell into a different ditch this time.
Losing all his money and starting over again, the monetary loss was a minor issue. The most frustrating part was, “when you treat someone as a goddess, they treat you like an idiot.”
With the previous experience, the little mage quickly came to his senses this time, but heartache was inevitable.
Generally speaking, there are several feasible ways to deal with a breakup:
- Striking back for revenge.
- Shifting focus to something else.
- Sublimation.
The first option has too high of a cost and would result in a lose-lose outcome.
The last option is the optimal solution, but it requires a level of enlightenment that the little mage cannot currently achieve.
So he had no choice but to take the middle path: shifting his focus.
Afterwards, the little mage tried his best to keep himself busy.
…
The situation hasn’t improved yet, and the annual Chinese New Year has arrived on the continent.
At this time every year, the scrolls for teleporting back home are sold out early.
The little mage could only use a time-consuming and laborious long-distance teleportation.
Before he even reached the door of his house, he saw blood-red couplets hanging on both sides of the gate:
Year after year, marriage is nowhere in sight.
The horizontal scroll:
Wait for another year.
Translated by gpt-3.5-turbo