The weather was bright and breezy on the Asphalt Road by the River Dam.
Jiang Ning and Tongtong fooled around for a while. Tongtong gazed at the long wedding convoy ahead and murmured, "They're getting married. They're getting married."
There seemed to be a hint of excitement in her voice.
Jiang Ning considered it for two seconds and said, "Marriage is the finish line. But reaching the finish line doesn't necessarily mean happiness."
Tongtong blinked. "Will you get married when you grow up?"
Jiang Ning faced the gentle breeze. "Before, no. Now, it's hard to say."
Tongtong poked her little face out from beside his arm, curious. "Why wouldn't you have before?"
Jiang Ning chuckled. "My grades were poor, my family circumstances were average, and I had no future. I couldn't get married."
In fact, that was indeed the case.
"How much did you make a month before?"
"Five thousand yuan."
"Five thousand yuan, and that wasn't enough to get married? My mom used to make less than three thousand!" Tongtong was shocked.
Jiang Ning explained, "By 'before,' I mean the salary I estimated I'd earn after graduating normally. It would've been 2020 by then. Five thousand yuan wasn't much."
Xue Yuantong looked down on him. "Then you were way too incapable. After I graduate, I'll definitely make an annual salary of a million!"
"Keep dreaming." Jiang Ning could not be bothered to argue with her.
Still, thinking carefully about it, during his high school and college years in his previous life, he had also thought he would make a lot of money after graduation. But fantasies and reality had ultimately been far apart.
Xue Yuantong cried, "But five thousand yuan is still a lot!"
Jiang Ning said, "Go out for hotpot once, and a day's wages are gone."
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