28-year-old Ruan Yu has been in such a big city as the magic capital for 29 days.
She used to work as a florist in a small town near her hometown.
But in fact, she has a profession that she loves and pursues the realm, florist.
She once studied abroad to learn the art of flower arrangement, and it took her four years to obtain a very important certificate in the industry.
But in the end, after she returned to the sea, she couldn't find a suitable job, so she had to take some money out and run a flower shop to sell flowers.
In her opinion, running a flower shop to sell flowers is not the same thing as the profession of florist, because what she should serve is those high-end business events and evening parties, so that her beautiful works of art can be displayed, and a floral collection with great charm can be displayed.
However, there is not much demand in China, and she can't rashly go to first-tier cities to develop, so she just wants to accumulate some funds and rely on florists to get a normal income before seeking another opportunity.
When her flower shop already had three employees and her income was stable, she decided to say goodbye to her parents and go to the metropolis she had long-awaited for herself, the magic capital of Shanghai.
But the reality still gave her a big disappointment, there are already many well-known practitioners in the industry, and it seems that she can get into it if she wants to.
Therefore, she can only rent a house, live in it first, and then go outside every day to meet some teachers or practitioners who are more qualified than her, and seek more networking opportunities.
Her dream is to become one of the best florists in the country.
But she is not in a hurry to make a name for herself, after all, she has the income of the flower shop as a guarantee.
On the contrary, she feels that the career of a florist should develop slowly, and laying a good foundation is the most important.
Communicating with her peers is an opportunity for self-improvement, and it is also a hobby that she regards as leisure and self-entertainment.
Therefore, she went out on the subway every day, and traveled a long way to meet the friends she thought was worth getting.
Life is uneventful, and there are dreams and motivation.
But Ruan Yu felt the pressure of marriage and love brought to her by the age of twenty-eight, and she is still single, not only unmarried, but also without a boyfriend.
She herself can see very well, and thinks that being unmarried at this age is a normal thing for urban women, but her parents are always worried that she can't get married, or that she is not married to an ideal man, so they will urge her on the phone and ask her to solve her marriage problems as soon as possible.
How Ruan Yu hopes that she can make her parents have a wish, at least a peace of mind, but she knows that this matter is not in a hurry, and she doesn't want to settle, she just feels that if fate comes, maybe she can't stop it.
In the past, when she was studying and studying abroad, she was always cautious about the relationship between men and women, and she would not open her heart casually.
Therefore, even if she has been in love twice, she is only in spiritual love, and these two relationships ended in nothing.
In the subway, you will often see some handsome guys dressed in trendy clothes.
Ruan Yu will also have an appreciative attitude and secretly glance at it, but it is just a glance, because she knows that there is no need to be such a nymphomaniac.
Even though she has always worked in aesthetics, she knows the superficiality of her little brothers, and she doesn't want to start a sister-brother relationship.
But on this day, she found a mature and handsome face, and the other party was dressed quite fashionably, similar to those young people in their twenties.
She judged that although the other party was in his thirties, he should be unmarried.
Usually those men in their thirties who are married will be dressed in workplace suits, and will never dress so casually and frivolously.
She felt that the other party's eyes were not frivolous at all, but mature, with embarrassment and vicissitudes.
This handsome guy can be called a combination of a mature uncle and an athletic boy, wearing a chest bag and loose sportswear, white sneakers, very youthful vitality, but in terms of temperament, he gives people a rich experience of the world, and has endured setbacks and pains that ordinary people don't know.
This kind of appearance of men is too attractive to Ruan Yu.
It really makes her want to get to know each other, so as to understand the other party's inner world clearly, and know what the other party has experienced, which will give people such a feeling of embarrassment and vicissitudes.
However, Ruan Yu knows very well that if there is no accident, the handsome brother in front of her, who has a very unique temperament, will be like most of the little fresh meat she sees in the subway on weekdays, but in the end it is just a one-sided relationship, and they will forget each other from each other's impressions.
The other party actually noticed her, and even showed a kind smile.
But Ruan Yu only thought, even if they have a good impression of each other, what about it?
A stranger is a stranger, God does not arrange for her to have a natural acquaintance with the other party, even if she is excited, and the other party also has interest in her and her heart throbs, it is impossible to start a story, or, even if this story is only a prologue, there will be no follow-up.
Moreover, Ruan Yu thought to herself, if the other party took the initiative and deliberately wanted to get close to her, and was very skilled in talking to her, so that she would soon meet her and become friends, then she should be careful.
Because this may be the rumored pick-up master, it can also be said to be a veteran of the love field, or it should be called the commonly known "Sea King", it must be that countless women have been accosted and known by him like this.
What Ruan Yu never expected was that God really seemed to know what she was thinking in her heart and what she hoped for.
First, there was a small episode, a pregnant woman entered the subway at the next stop, and the handsome guy was the first person to stand up and give up his seat, and everyone in the subway looked at him with respect.
Immediately afterwards, the passenger next to Ruan Yu got off the bus, so the seat next to her was empty, and everyone seemed to think that the handsome guy must be sitting next to her beauty.
Ruan Yu also blushed.
She scratched her hair, asking herself if her figure and appearance can cause countless heads in this city, but she is actually very confident, thinking that the handsome guy should be eager to sit next to her, so as to chat with her.
But to her surprise, the handsome guy hesitated for a while, as if he was a little shy and shy, and at the same time a little unconfident.
Ruan Yu had to show his kind and friendly side, as if to signal to the handsome guy that it was okay for him to sit down.
The handsome guy finally came over, and he was still very timid and asked first if he could sit next to her.
Ruan Yu smiled politely and replied, "No problem! ”
After the handsome guy sat down, he kept his distance from her, and he didn't speak, which made Ruan Yu wonder, only thinking that the other party should be very rusty and inexperienced in the relationship between men and women, if it was another boy, he might have chatted with her happily.
Ruan Yu had to take the initiative to speak: "Hey, your outfit is very good, very casual, very beautiful, I think it looks good." ”
The other party smiled, and then said to her, "You're not bad, I think you should be doing design or clothing and art-related work, right?" ”
When Ruan Yu heard this, she immediately nodded, saying that she was a florist, and she estimated that the other party was also engaged in art.
The distance between the hearts of the two people was suddenly shortened.
In the end, it was like opening the chatterbox, and I couldn't close it at all, and I couldn't wait to talk to each other more, as if there would be no next stop on this subway, and there would be no end.
Ruan Yu only then knew that the other party was Zhang Zhiheng, and his profession was also Ruan Yu's guess, he was an illustrator, and his main job was to do art for some game companies, but in fact, what he really wanted to do was an oil painter, like Monet and Van Gogh.
Zhang Zhiheng gave Ruan Yu the feeling that he was quite elegant, so Ruan Yu asked him, which university did he graduate from, is it a very high-level art academy? And, what did his parents do, presumably a profession like a teacher and doctor.
"No, I didn't go to college!" Zhang Zhiheng is quite frank.
Immediately afterwards, he revealed his age, thirty-three years old, older and unmarried, and without a girlfriend.
And his experience is something that ordinary people can't guess from his appearance, and it is estimated that Ruan Yu definitely doesn't know what he has experienced.
He has been a left-behind child in the mountains since he was a child, and his parents have gone out to work, and one day, he was told that his parents were divorced, and he continued to live with his grandfather and grandmother, and his parents did not want his custody, and even now, he has not recognized his parents.
Fortunately, his grandfather and grandmother passed away after raising him.
When he was nineteen years old, he was alone.
After dropping out of junior high school, he worked as a farmer in a mountain village, taking care of his grandfather and grandmother until the moment of old age, and when his grandfather and grandmother also left him, he went to a certain city in the coastal area alone, and endured all kinds of hardships and did all kinds of difficult work.
He didn't have a steady income until he was twenty-five years old, when he arrived at an oil painting village where he could work as an apprentice, and he found the job he loved.
At that time, he copied paintings of various names, these paintings are also called replicas, in fact, they are sold abroad by traders at a very low price, and these painters, in fact, receive very low remuneration, and also have to bear the chemical attack of the pigments used in oil paintings, it is easy to get sick, and some of them die of leukemia directly.
He was relatively lucky, painted a replica for several years, and did not die, but had a sum of money that could support his living expenses for half a year.
After he had such a sum of money, he decided to apply for an adult university and study art, and then he continued to study and practice on his own, and he became half a painter, so that he could make a living from this skill he liked.
However, it was difficult to support himself as a painter, so he had to do a regular job, and also rely on his drawing skills to eat, that is, to do some cover illustrators.
Unconsciously, he has been mixed until the age of thirty-three, and he still can't realize his ideals and become a truly famous painter, but he has delayed his youth, and now he wants to find a woman to fall in love, which is extremely difficult for him.
Speaking of this, his face was full of sighs, but he didn't take out a cigarette to smoke, probably not a smoker, otherwise, he would definitely swallow the clouds at this time.
Ruan Yu had been listening quietly.
She couldn't believe that the person in front of her was dressed with a very fashionable trend and a very clean face, much like a handsome guy who grew up in the city, who had experienced such ups and downs and twists and turns.
"Do you mean that you don't have a girlfriend and have never been? I don't think it's possible. ”
Ruan Yu looked at Zhang Zhiheng's clean and angular face, she really didn't believe that the man in front of her who was so handsome had never been in love until he was thirty-three years old, and he had never been married.
Zhang Zhiheng smiled bitterly and replied, "Don't you believe it? But the fact is this, like me, a man from a background, who is poor and white, and has no money, where can there be a woman? I'm dressed up, I buy some clothes on the Internet, dozens of dollars a piece, and I can get it, of course, I do have a sense of art, and I can match it well, but is this useful? ”
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Zhiheng told Ruan Yu that his monthly income was unstable, because being an illustrator was paid on a piece-by-piece basis, and sometimes, his total income of several hundred yuan a month could not be paid in rent.
After saying these words, Zhang Zhiheng's eyes were full of bitterness and optimism.
He looked at Ruan Yu, as if to ask Ruan Yu, is Ruan Yu interested in getting to know and dating a man like him who has an unstable income and often worries about money?
Ruan Yu seems to know the man in front of her very well in a short period of time, but she will be suspicious of everything in front of her, although she feels that Zhang Zhiheng seems quite honest, straightforward, and sincere, but after all, she met such a strange man in the subway, is all this credible?
Just when Ruan Yu was hesitating for a while and didn't know how to respond, the subway stopped, and Zhang Zhiheng stood up and said to her that he arrived at the station, and the chance of meeting each other in the future was quite small, and he felt that it was also his luck to be able to talk to Ruan Yu about it.
After speaking, Zhang Zhiheng walked to the gate of the subway, ready to leave like this.
Ruan Yu really wanted to stop Zhang Zhiheng at this moment, and said to Zhang Zhiheng that she actually didn't care at all, Zhang Zhiheng was so unstable in income and in such an unsatisfactory economic situation, she really hoped to become friends with Zhang Zhiheng, so that they could have a relationship with each other for a while, and maybe there was a chance to develop a relationship.
However, she only hesitated for a few seconds, and there was no chance, she could only look at Zhang Zhiheng's back and slowly get lucky in the subway station.
She couldn't believe that Zhang Zhiheng didn't ask her for contact information.
As a very attractive urban beautiful woman, she has met many men on the street who took the initiative to talk to her, and there are many of these men who shamelessly ask her for contact information, she has no interest in dating these men, and has always refused politely.
And Zhang Zhiheng in front of her was what she wanted to date, but she didn't ask for her contact information, and she couldn't take the initiative to give it.
Just when Ruan Yu felt extremely sighing and lost, she unexpectedly found that the seat next to her, that is, the position where Zhang Zhiheng had just sat there, had a blank piece of paper.
She picked it up and found that there was a portrait painted on the back, and it was her! The painting is quite detailed, it is a quick sketch, and the craftsmanship of the painting is amazing.
There are a few lines on it: When you entered the subway just now, I felt that you were the most beautiful goddess in the world I had ever seen, so I couldn't help but draw you down, hoping that you would not be surprised. It's a pity that I don't think I'll ever see you again, but life has so many regrets, and this is just one of them.
The joy and loss in Ruan Yu's heart have reached the extreme.
Zhang Zhiheng showed her love in this form, saying that she was the most beautiful goddess in the world, however, in the end, Zhang Zhiheng regarded this encounter as the last meeting with her because of his inner unconfidence, and there was no intersection with each other in the future.
For many days to come, Ruan Yu picked the last time she took the subway, and went in the same direction and took the same subway.
She wanted to meet Zhang Zhiheng again.
However, fate makes people, she has not met Zhang Zhiheng once, and every time she can only get one disappointment, Zhang Zhiheng seems to have completely evaporated from the world and completely disappeared into her world, so that she can't find it at all, can't find it.
She tried to look on the Internet to see if she could meet her, but there was no footprint of Zhang Zhiheng on the Internet.
A whole year has passed.
She gradually made a breakthrough in the career development of florists, and became a well-known florist in the first-tier city of Shanghai, the magic capital.
However, her love life is still blank, perhaps for people who are engaged in art and have the ultimate pursuit of aesthetics, there is a habit of cleanliness and quite an alternative and unique taste for finding the opposite sex.
All along, she has met many men in her work, but none of them can enter her eyes, and she feels that the character of these men is not very pure.
She always remembered in her mind that Zhang Zhiheng, who was thirty-three years old and had never been in love, had a childlike simplicity in his stupid eyes and voice, but he had the ultimate maturity.
However, she only felt that it was impossible to meet Zhang Zhiheng again.
Heaven seems to want to play a joke on her, let her meet such a man who can make her heart throb, let her truly appreciate and recognize his character and spiritual world, but in the end, she will never miss this man, never to meet again.
Until another year later, in the winter, when she was thirty years old.
Having gained enough wealth to achieve financial freedom, and having bought a house, brought her parents to live in the city, and became a new citizen here, she decided to go on a long trip on her own.
When she came to the attraction of an ancient city, she was surprised to find that there was a stall painter who painted portraits of tourists, quite young, looking like he was in his thirties from the background.
When she seriously walked in front of this stall painter, she immediately exclaimed, because this was exactly Zhang Zhiheng she met in the subway many years ago.
At this time, Zhang Zhiheng lost a lot of weight and looked quite haggard.
The business of painting portraits of tourists in this place must be very bad, Zhang Zhiheng may have stayed all day, and there is no business, and he is wearing a thin rayon sweatshirt, constantly shaking in the cold wind.
"Do you want a portrait? You can draw one for twenty dollars! ”
Although Zhang Zhiheng recognized her and knew that she was the beautiful woman who appeared back then, he still said to Ruan Yu with such polite words, as if he was hiding his gaffe and downfall.
Ruan Yu said to him: "I'll give you two hundred yuan, you can collect the stall now, don't get cold here!" ”
After finishing speaking, Ruan Yu took out the money, and she wanted to help Zhang Zhiheng clean up the stall, so that he could get warm in a windless location earlier.
Zhang Zhiheng insisted on painting a portrait of her, which was worthy of his labor remuneration, and he did not want to accept other people's charity.
In the end, Ruan Yu faced Zhang Zhiheng who painted her portrait with tears in her eyes, and kept smiling, allowing Zhang Zhiheng to capture the most sincere moments of her emotions.
On that day, Ruan Yu didn't care that she was a big beauty and how good her conditions were, she completely lost the reserve that a woman should have, and took the initiative to propose to Zhang Zhiheng that she wanted to fall in love with Zhang Zhiheng.
Zhang Zhiheng thought she was joking at first.
Ruan Yu is quite persistent, she said to Zhang Zhiheng quite firmly, she already knows Zhang Zhiheng quite well, she wants to give all her love to Zhang Zhiheng, and she also believes that Zhang Zhiheng is very talented, and he will definitely be very promising in the future.
In the end, the relationship between the two people was finally determined.
But Ruan Yu took Zhang Zhiheng back to meet her parents, and when her parents knew all about Zhang Zhiheng's situation, they immediately discussed it with Ruan Yu quite seriously, so that Ruan Yu had to think about it clearly.
First of all, Zhang Zhiheng is an older unmarried man with no formal job and no stable income, he is thirty-five years old, and Ruan Yu Although he is thirty, his conditions are much better than Zhang Zhiheng, and he still has many choices in choosing a mate.
Moreover, whether Zhang Zhiheng's parents will come back to Zhang Zhiheng in the future may become a burden to Zhang Zhiheng, and if Ruan Yu wants to combine with Zhang Zhiheng and become Zhang Zhiheng's other half, this will have to be borne together.
Ruan Yu said to her parents: "Dad, Mom, I have thought it through very clearly! I believe that Zhiheng will definitely become famous and have a family in the future, and he will be more promising than me! ”
Her parents, seeing that she was so firm and persistent, didn't say anything more, and agreed to her union with Zhang Zhiheng.
In the end, Ruan Yu, as a famous florist in the magic capital, had already achieved financial freedom, but became husband and wife with Zhang Zhiheng, a poor and white stall painter.
Many people who know Ruan Yu only think that Ruan Yu is too stupid.
How much money can this stall painter make? In the future, it will definitely drag Ruan Yu down, reduce Ruan Yu's quality of life, and bring endless trouble to Ruan Yu.
But two years later, the facts finally proved that Ruan Yu married the right one.
Zhang Zhiheng is really talented, he soon became a real painter, and became the chairman of the local art association, and the price of a painting has also risen, and he is much more profitable than Ruan Yu himself.
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Note: Non-fiction creation, written according to the narrator's experience, some plots and details may have flaws, corrections are welcome, all names are pseudonyms. The pictures come from the Internet, and the content and opinions are original.
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