Some people say that love is the only salvation that can save lonely souls. No, I don’t think so. Love is a poison that corrodes people’s hearts. It is a trap that life sets for you. It is a weakness that makes you attached to warmth. It is when you bathe in dragon’s blood.

The leaf attached to it is the best tool to make you give up your dignity. - Cheng Mo

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Xie Minyun, who was leaning back on the seat with her legs crossed, reached out and fiddled with the few strands of black, straight and long hair that had been messed up by the wind around her cheeks. This action added countless indescribable charms to the cold Xie Minyun. The original

Xie Minyun was a bit unworldly, but at this moment, he became vivid and shining because of this inadvertent action.

After Cheng Mo agreed to give her a 28% share and taught her the methods and techniques of identifying micro-expressions, Xie Minyun gently opened her two pale lips that were as bloody as the setting sun and said: "I think your vision is not that short-sighted. According to Pascal's bet,

Theoretically (note 1), you should know that if you just want to make money, then even if you look down on them, even if you are very capable, integrating with them is the most correct choice, right?"

After a slight pause, Xie Minyun said meaningfully: "Especially Du Leng, he established a Dragon Blood Society. Those who can join the society are elites with excellent family backgrounds and academic achievements. Although you have an ordinary background, with your ability

, it is easy to join. With these resources, you will be able to save many years of struggle in the future. You will have a much brighter future than you who are working so hard to scheme against him and earn some pocket money now..."

Of course Cheng Mo understood what Xie Minyun meant when she mentioned Pascal's Wager. It was obvious that she was saying that as an absolutely rational person who pursues good and avoids evil, he should try to integrate into the elite class represented by Du Leng, because as long as he joins, it is possible

If you get benefits, the worst result is just not getting any benefits, but if you don't join, you are very likely to get disadvantages.

To put it simply, what Xie Minyun meant was that if Cheng Mo just wanted to make money and didn't try his best to integrate into Du Leng's circle, it would be irrational.

Cheng Mo repeated the name "Dragon Blood Club" and then said: "I actually don't like the word success. If you look at the success books on the market that tell you what success is, you will know who is defining what success is.

'Successful'. Everyone seems to be telling you that as long as you work hard, you can make enough money. As long as you make enough money to achieve financial freedom, you are successful..."

"Actually, we all know that there is not only one kind of success, so why do we only see this one in our eyes?"

"Because if the people who are the cornerstone do not work hard, the entire country will lose its vitality and competitiveness, so this is the only kind of success we are taught... From ancient times to the present, the human world has always been a pyramid system.

From top to bottom, as the number of people increases, the wealth and wisdom they possess decreases exponentially... What is the secret of this world? The responsibility of the people at the top of the pyramid is to enable the people at the bottom to provide food and clothing and keep them promoted.

Hope... However, in the end, only a small group of people can advance to the elite class and gain real financial freedom. The vast majority of people are just placed in a division of labor destined to create wealth for others...

."

"I think you should know better than me that the secret of success does not lie in the group of people at the top of the pyramid, but in some missionaries who have been established by the 'top', such as the famous Boss X... Even if you can succeed

As far as Boss

"So for me...although I want money, I am never willing to be a slave to money..."

As a true red aristocrat, Xie Minyun naturally knows that what Cheng Mo said is a fact. The so-called class mobility only exists between ordinary people and elites, and this mobility is becoming more and more difficult. As for those who want to break the ceiling and advance to the pyramid

At the top, there is no way except blood and fire.

Xie Minyun said calmly: "It sounds very ideal, but the reality seems to be quite cruel! Is it harder to make money standing up than you think? But it doesn't matter, the Yan Yitong who talked to you this afternoon is quite worthy.

....You don't like Du Leng's path, and Yan Yitong's path... If you seize this, it's a good opportunity to skip a grade..."

Cheng Mo sneered: "I actually don't like the word ideal either. It's just an empty word used by missionaries to package their humanistic care. They tell you that the shape of ideals is poetry, wine and distance, mountains, deserts and

The ocean is about conquering, climbing and mastering. If you don't establish some ideals, then you will be confused and numb. But ideals are actually nothing, they are just your life plans. Make money in the way you want. This is the truth of ideals.

, from beginning to end, you still stay within the framework that others have drawn for you. You think you are growing wildly, but in fact you are just following the rules. These things are just spices for a boring life... In the final analysis, the direction is,

Redemption, hope, ideals...are these important? In fact, they are not important at all."

Xie Minyun supported his chin with the back of his hand, leaned his elbow on the armrest and looked at Cheng Mo sideways, and asked in a natural way: "Then what is the most important to you?"

Cheng Mo said: "Of course the most important thing is to live comfortably." After a slight pause, he changed the subject and said very calmly: "It is enough to live healthy and die the way I want."

Xie Minyun cast her sight to the Xiangjiang River outside the window. The Orange Island was like a giant boat riding the wind and waves in the middle of the river. The summer sunset made the sky gorgeous, as if the sky was lit with orange fire. Xie Minyun was silent for a moment. She knew that Cheng Mo was

I want to be the master of my own destiny, but in this world, it is so difficult to be the master of my own destiny.

Roosevelt once shouted: Be the master of time, the master of fate, and the helmsman of the soul.

William Henry once shouted: Thank God for giving me an unconquerable soul. I am the master of my destiny and the commander of my soul!

The Jews once shouted collectively: I am the master of my destiny and the master of my soul.

Those who choose to be loyal to their souls and dare to fight against fate are determined lunatics and fools in the eyes of most people. They try to escape the shackles of the world. They know that the process is unprofitable, difficult and painful, and they have to swim against the current.

, become the master of one's own will and destiny.

But, it seems, nothing is greater than this ideal.

Xie Minyun also overestimated Cheng Mo's ideals. In fact, Cheng Mo just wanted to die a comfortable old age instead of being killed by this damn heart disease.

When two teenagers of sixteen or seventeen years old said this, they were actually a bit middle-of-the-road. They were probably at the age where they were talking about traffic niches and entertainment gossip. Even if they were more advanced, talking about Mathematical Olympiads, Ivy League, and the international situation would not count.

It's an exaggeration, but they are talking about something as mysterious and mysterious as the superstructure.

However, they are extremely serious. If anyone else is there, they will definitely think that the two of them are a joke.

But in fact, they are just standing on a higher dimension. Think about those geniuses, Gauss, Marx, Nietzsche, the great men of Orange Island... What were they thinking when they were seventeen years old?

You will understand that it is not that they are pretending to be profound, but that we ordinary people are too superficial.

Cheng Mo keenly caught Xie Minyun's desolate expression at this moment and said: "No wonder people like you have no friends, treat life like a chess game, and regard everyone as an opponent... Your personality is really twisted

ah!"

Xie Minyun turned around, looked at Cheng Mo and said coldly: "Isn't it funny? People like you will never understand what it is like to be regarded as a benchmark by others since you were a child. Every time someone else

Praise makes no difference. You see, Xie Minyun is beautiful, has good grades, and has such a powerful family background... But am I just like this? I have been regarded as a role model countless times, no, I should be a villain, and then I am regarded as a villain by countless people.

Jealousy, as long as you make a trivial mistake, someone will ridicule you and magnify it into a heinous shortcoming. When I was in junior high school, what I received most were not love letters, but anonymous letters scolding me... You know they are most happy to read it.

What do they get? It’s not how good your grades are, not how perfect your performance is, or how popular you are. What they want to see is that you are embarrassed, that you reveal your weaknesses, that you are unlucky...

"

"Actually, you are the kind of person I hate the most!"

"Because you like to pretend, you like lies, and you think lies are correct and are making up for and harmonizing the bad habits of this world. But I will never be confused like you, and I will never allow these despicable people to look at me.

joke."

"Never allow..."

When she said the last words, Xie Minyun's jade-white side face reflected the huge sunset, causing the rational brilliance of the day to be trampled by this blurred color. Paired with her lonely and desolate expression, it was like an unknown doomsday.

Arrive.

Beauty stands in the middle of Cheng Mo's vision, turning everything in this world into futility.

Her long hair, slender eyelashes, jewel-like pupils, pretty nose and shallow cherry lips, stirred by the evening breeze, made everything like "dream", "charming", "

Words like "绻绻" are eclipsed.

But for Cheng Mo at this moment, the air was full of deadly toxins. He turned his head away and held his breath: "A monster will never make fun of another monster."

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(Note 1: "Pascal's Wager" - is a statement expressed by the French mathematician, physicist, and thinker Blaise Pascal in his book "Thoughts", that is: I don't know God
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