Chapter 5041 — Not a Second Thought
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
And the way things were going now, Leng Leng might well become one of his confidantes too. Naturally he would not be the least bit stingy with her. Whatever she wanted, so long as she truly needed it, he would move heaven and earth to get it for her even if he did not have it on hand—of that there was no doubt.
Hearing this answer and seeing the earnest expression on Wei Zhao's face, Leng Leng fell silent, somewhat moved. She could not be certain whether Wei Zhao was merely paying lip service or truly meant it, but judging by how they had gotten along so far, she believed it was most likely the latter.
In her view, Wei Zhao was probably not the sort of man who abandoned all principles just to win a girl's favor. Leng Leng might not consider her experience in the Jianghu particularly rich, nor would she claim any gift for reading people, but she could feel things with her heart—at least she sensed not the slightest ill will from Wei Zhao. Otherwise she would not have let him get away with those intimate gestures today.
Looking at Leng Leng's expression, Wei Zhao suddenly understood what this little cold miss truly cared about. The reason she appeared so icy in temperament and so full of vigilance, forever keeping people at arm's length, was ultimately a lack of security. This girl, cold on the outside but warm within, was in truth very much afraid of being deceived, and even more afraid of rashly giving her heart only to be toyed with and come to a bad end.
Wei Zhao thought for a moment, then smiled. "Actually, there's an established custom these days: when a man and a woman break up, in many cases the man leaves with nothing at all."
"Nothing at all?" Leng Leng was taken aback, and could not help saying with a strange expression, "Why leave with nothing? If it's just to punish the man for his faults, isn't that rule a bit too cruel?"
"Uh, you've misunderstood me. It's not that kind of 'nothing.' By leaving with nothing, I mean that after the breakup the man takes none of the property—everything is left to the woman," Wei Zhao explained, caught between laughter and tears.
Of course, he said all this purely to comfort Leng Leng, so he picked only the pleasant things to say. He did not mention that while there were indeed many men who left with nothing, there were also plenty of bastards who demanded their rings back after a breakup. The same rice nurtures a hundred kinds of people—such was the way of the world.
"Oh, so that's what it means." Leng Leng blushed a little too, but still asked in puzzlement, "But if they've already broken up, why leave everything to the woman? Are all men sick in the head or something?"
In the little Jianghu world of the Taigu where she lived, once a man and a woman fell out, fights often broke out over who got what—each eager to take back everything in the other's hands. Such cases were commonplace, and she had never heard of a man being so generous as to leave everything to the woman after they had gone their separate ways.
"You can't call it being sick—it's simply a prevailing social custom. At least it's far better than tearing each other apart over property the moment you break up, isn't it? A man ought to bear a little more responsibility toward a woman," Wei Zhao could only go on choosing the pleasant things to say, though he felt a good deal inside.
If one really spoke of responsibility, what he had done for those confidantes of his was far from enough. He might not be a bastard, but he could hardly be called responsible either; by comparison, it was those confidantes who had given more for him. Once Gu Mengyao and the others were rescued and awakened, he would truly have to make it up to them properly.
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