Dead Water

Fangzheng asked, "Uh… It's not that bad, right?"

Yu Nian shook his head with a bitter smile. "It can only be worse than you think. Do you know? My wedding is today."

Fangzheng nodded in acknowledgment.

Yu Nian said, "But you definitely don't know how many times I went on blind dates to reach this point."

"How many times?"

Yu Nian said, "The blind dates started three years ago. Five times a month, sixty times a year, a hundred and eighty times in three years! Basically, I used up all the connections around me before I found someone who's willing to chat a little more with me. Most of the time, the woman will ask me what I do. When I say that I'm a web novelist, and that's basically the end of the date."

"That pitiful?"