The subject of intimate relationships between two people had endured for ages, because there was simply too much to discuss. Even exhausting all the knowledge of psychology and sociology might not be enough to encompass every possible situation.
But one pattern was worth noting: within an emotional relationship between two people, there was always a stronger side and a weaker side. If one person was strong, the other was weak. Either the east wind prevailed over the west wind, or the west wind prevailed over the east wind.
Although many people had long seen through this pattern and believed they could become the stronger party in a relationship, in reality, no matter how many tricks they tried, they still always ended up on the weaker side.
Whether one searched online or read books about relationships, there were plenty of people teaching methods for becoming the dominant party. After all, there were too many benefits to being the stronger one.
You had the entire situation under control and could do whatever you wanted. The other person could never leave you, and you had enough means to ensure their loyalty.
But in reality, such methods were not so effective. Little schemes and tricks, without core strength to support them, were ultimately nothing more than rootless duckweed, good only for making people laugh.
The key to the balance of power in a relationship actually lay in emotional self-control. To put it bluntly, the person who loved less always won.
An emotional person could never become the dominant party in a relationship. The richer their feelings were, the more severely they would be suppressed.
Conversely, the more detached, cold, and ruthless someone was, the more initiative they could seize in a relationship.
But whether someone was emotional or sufficiently cold and ruthless was mostly