He glanced over casually and saw her eyes darting about; he had no idea what she was thinking. Is she about to go on a rampage? Yet, her long eyelashes fluttered, making her look even more vivid, her face seeming to glow with a crystalline sheen.

He suddenly realized that after recovering from her illness, she had recuperated well. When she was lively and vibrant, her face was like a peach blossom in full bloom.

Especially, her moods came and went quickly; she was usually all smiles.

The most peculiar thing was, whenever she identified an "enemy"—she wouldn’t resort to tears, tantrums, or threats of suicide—she’d always figure out a way to deal with them.

Whether it was Zhou Ting or Rina, if she wasn’t interested in someone, she wouldn’t care. Love rivals and the like were nothing to her. But if she *did* care, heh heh.

That was a huge advantage, indeed.

He deliberately teased her, "Silly girl, what are you thinking about?"

"I won’t tell you."

"Come on, spill it."

"HMPH!"

"Are you thinking about how to deal with your love rival?"

She immediately seized on that. "Love rival? So you admit she’s my love rival? Wan Donglin, what do you mean by that? Are you two-timing me??? I suggest you watch your step, don’t lose your footing and capsize the boat."

He replied nonchalantly, "Don’t worry, my ship is plenty big. Someone once said that men are teapots and women are teacups. A single teapot can easily accommodate several teacups. But can a single teacup accommodate several teapots?"

"..." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"The promiscuity of males is a biological imperative. Think about it: suppose there’s only one man and one hundred women left on Earth. This man could impregnate all one hundred women, and the population would quickly multiply. But if there were one hundred men and only one woman left, the population would very likely go extinct."

"..."

"Consider this: no matter how capable a woman is, pregnancy takes ten months. Having two children in three years is already incredibly prolific. Even if she never stopped, she’d only have a twenty to thirty-year reproductive window, capping out at a dozen or so children."

"So what?"

"So, it’s normal for you to have a love rival."

"Hey, Wan Donglin, I just thought of a profession that would be absolutely perfect for you."

"What profession?"

"A stud bull on the prairie. You know, the kind commonly called a wild bull or a breeding bull. Its sole purpose is mating and reproduction; it bears absolutely no responsibility for raising offspring. In the herd, it enjoys the highest, most revered, and rarest status. That’s a ’noble and aloof’ enough profession for you, isn’t it? Comfortable, profitable... and compared to your teapot and teacup theory, it’s pathetically weak..."

"..."

She sneered. "Is there any point to all your rambling? Don’t you forget, in A Country, the number of bachelors has skyrocketed to forty or fifty million in the last five years or so. If you guys are so amazing, why don’t you go forth and multiply everywhere? If women in A Country aren’t enough, go abroad! If foreign women aren’t enough, go to Mars! If Mars can’t hold all of you, isn’t there still the solar system and the Milky Way? Do you dare to scatter your ’noble and aloof’ sperm throughout the entire universe?"

"And what if there aren’t enough foreign women? Don’t forget, the global male-to-female ratio is 1.06:1. That means there are already slightly fewer women than men..."

"Then go to the grasslands, the forests, the deserts! If there aren’t enough women, you can even try orangutans..."

"Orangutans? And what about the children?"

"They’d be ’You Who Came From the Apes’!"

PUFFT! Wan Donglin burst out laughing, almost falling over.

She also chuckled. HEH HEH.