Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 127 - 124 Equally Stubborn

"You need to give me a moment to think, okay? What you’re saying is, on the first night, you invited Zhou Yuan to dinner, and she couldn’t stand your relentless badgering, so she agreed to be your girlfriend," Yan Yan began to help analyze.

"Am I the relentless type?" Jiao Zhifei pointed out Yan Yan’s inappropriate choice of words.

"It doesn’t matter what you think you are, what matters is what she thinks you are.

But let’s not talk about that right now. Let me think some more.

Then, on the second day, you were in meetings from morning till night and didn’t contact her at all until you finally called her in the evening, right?" Yan Yan asked Jiao Zhifei.

"Mhm," Jiao Zhifei’s answers began to shorten.

"And the next day, you were planning to do the same thing, call her in the evening, is that correct?" Yan Yan continued with the questions.

"Right," Jiao Zhifei didn’t know what Yan Yan was getting at.

"Oh my God, little bro, with an attitude like that, I’d have dumped you too," Yan Yan felt like his little brother was a piece of rotten wood that couldn’t be carved.

"I’m your brother, can you even dump me?" Jiao Zhifei liked to call himself ’little bro,’ but he didn’t appreciate the way Yan Yan truly treated him like a child. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

"Will you listen to what I’m saying and occasionally try to grasp the point?" Yan Yan was becoming frustrated.

"Where did I miss the mark?" Jiao Zhifei completely disagreed with Yan Yan’s assessment of him.

"Then let me ask you, what are we discussing right now?" Yan Yan asked directly.

"Why did Zhou Yuan dump me?" Jiao Zhifei quickly provided the answer.

"Exactly, so you should be focusing on what kind of behavior on your part led to Zhou Yuan dumping you," Yan Yan decided to spell out the main point for Jiao Zhifei.

"In just these few days, she probably hasn’t even figured out what I’m like before already dumping me," Jiao Zhifei didn’t think there was anything wrong with his behavior.

"You’ve been in two relationships before, and both times it was the girls who pursued you, right?" Yan Yan asked Jiao Zhifei.

"Mhm," Jiao Zhifei replied in a single word.

"Every time you called, they were overjoyed, right?" Yan Yan pressed on.

"Mhm," Jiao Zhifei’s response was again just one word.

"So you think Zhou Yuan would also be overjoyed to receive your calls, don’t you?" Yan Yan continued to probe.

"She couldn’t possibly break up with me just because I called her," Jiao Zhifei finally said something more than one word.

"Not necessarily, but you said you’ve liked her for ten years, and Zhou Yuan was already skeptical.

She finally made up her mind to try being with you.

But what happened? As soon as she agreed, you left her on the back burner.

Calling her only in the evenings, what are you expecting her to think?" Yan Yan pointed out the crux of the problem.

"I’ve been in meetings all morning as soon as I got to work. It wasn’t until I got home in the evening that I had time to make a proper call," Jiao Zhifei didn’t see where he had gone wrong; he certainly wasn’t in the habit of calling someone every day.

"You’re in meetings all day, don’t you have time for lunch or coffee breaks?" Yan Yan felt his brother was beyond help.

"Yeah," Jiao Zhifei’s answer came without hesitation.

"Then couldn’t you take advantage of a coffee break to send a text asking if she’s had lunch or what she’s up to?" Yan Yan decided he had to teach his brother, step by step.

"I was just too busy, what’s the point of sending a text? There’s no time to chat properly," Jiao Zhifei still disagreed with Yan Yan’s opinion.

"Are you dense or what?

Sending her a text means that no matter how busy you are, you’re still thinking of her."

"You ignore someone for a whole day, how does that match up with someone who’s been in love for ten years and has finally gotten what they wished for?

It’s clear, once you’ve got her, you don’t want her anymore," Yan Yan emphatically chided Jiao Zhifei.

Yan Yan couldn’t quite understand if every Capricorn was a workaholic like Jiao Zhifei.

Once engrossed in work, they would forget about many things.

"How could I possibly not want her after getting her?

You don’t believe me?

I just wanted to have a complete time, where I could talk to her wholeheartedly before I called her with full attention.

Otherwise, what’s the point if the conversation has to end after just a couple of sentences?" Jiao Zhifei retorted.

Jiao Zhifei didn’t accept Yan Yan’s criticism because he genuinely didn’t feel he had done anything wrong. He was using his most sincere heart in his efforts to connect with Zhou Yuan.

"Little brother, if you keep this up, you’ll end up alone for the rest of your life," Yan Yan sighed.

"If I’m alone, then so be it. I’m already used to it. Being alone isn’t bad," Jiao Zhifei suddenly spoke with an air of maturity.

"So, you’re just going to give up?" Yan Yan couldn’t quite understand.

For Jiao Zhifei, Zhou Yuan constituted his entire youth.

A ten-year pursuit—how could one simply let go?

"I don’t plan to give up, but unfortunately, I am the one who’s been given up on, and there’s nothing I can do about it," Jiao Zhifei felt that sometimes, accepting reality was the best choice.

If he had never caught her, it would have been fine, but to be declared out of the game right after catching up was something that Jiao Zhifei couldn’t help but feel hurt by.

Jiao Zhifei felt his ten years was perhaps worthless to Zhou Yuan.

But in the end, Zhou Yuan hadn’t really done anything wrong in this matter.

All things considered, it all boiled down to Jiao Zhifei being too dramatic.

Not speaking up, not expressing himself, and then suddenly overwhelming her with intense emotions—it was very normal for Zhou Yuan to struggle with believing it all at once.

Moreover, after Zhou Yuan agreed, contacting her only once towards the end of the day would only confirm her initial thoughts.

Zhou Yuan wasn’t the type of girl to take the initiative, and Zhifei wasn’t the type of guy to do so either.

For Jiao Zhifei, the day after Zhou Yuan accepted him was a continuation of a ten-year stretch.

For Zhou Yuan, it was the beginning of the first day of love. No matter how rational, she wouldn’t think that a single phone call per day at the start of a relationship would suffice.

"Let’s not talk about this anymore. Are you ready to come to Shenzhen to save your little brother?" Jiao Zhifei decided to get back on topic.

"How am I supposed to save you?" Yan Yan felt this was a crucial question to clarify.

"Take me out for a meal," Jiao Zhifei finally steered the conversation back.

"No way, skipping a meal or two won’t kill anyone, unless you need me to go help you explain things to Zhou Yuan," Yan Yan felt if Jiao Zhifei wanted her to come to Shenzhen because of the former, it would be trivial, but if it were the latter, it would be a serious matter.

"Why do I need you to help me explain anything?" Jiao Zhifei had never thought of the latter.

Yan Yan knew that her words still couldn’t awaken Jiao Zhifei.

Jiao Zhifei was such a person, with his own standards for viewing the world, his own logic for evaluating situations, appearing easy-going but inside extremely stubborn and persistent.

He could stubbornly love someone, and with equal stubbornness, demand of himself not to love someone.

As for whether he could really let go in his heart, that was his own business to deal with.