Chapter 1384 - The Bargaining Chip
"Elisa, you really didn't need to make an oath like that."
The muscle-bound Zhao Aiguo finally regained the ability to speak.
Li Bai glanced at him worriedly. Sure enough, he was a man whose mind had been clouded by love. Despite having a master's-level intelligence and education, he was acting worse than a kindergartener at this moment.
Love really did lower a person's intelligence.
There was no denying that some extraordinarily gifted people could lie so convincingly that even they believed their own lies. However, such people were ultimately few and far between. For everyone else, trying to deceive Li Bai was practically impossible.
Although the vows that the muscular Barbie Elisa had made before Li Bai were completely sincere, without the slightest trace of deception.
The human heart was difficult to fathom and prone to change.
No one could guarantee that her oath at this moment would remain steadfast in the future.
If people could truly keep their word and uphold the spirit of contracts, Westerners would not be so enthusiastic about cheating and divorce.
They hit it off today and hooked up, then grew unhappy tomorrow and went their separate ways. Truly exemplary couples who stayed together until their hair turned white were almost nonexistent. Even in the United States, the legal divorce rate had reached fifty percent. If couples who had separated without divorcing were included, the proportion would probably be even higher.
In Belgium, one of Europe's divorce capitals, the rate could even reach seventy-one percent. Think about it: in the country that gave birth to The Smurfs, there was only one Smurfette, while all the others were Papa Smurf, Clumsy, Brainy, and so on... It was hardly surprising.
Finally escaping the unprecedented terror, Elisa panted and said, "I understand