Chapter 439: Not Knowing Others’ Suffering
Su Ming was called out by Jiang Yichuan.
In fact, when Su Ming was on the phone, he felt that it was not so easy for the captain to ask him to go out, and now, he was blocked by Jiang Yichuang in an alley.
"Do you want to smoke?" Jiang Yichuang took out a cigarette and handed it to Su Ming's mouth.
Su Ming was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "I don't smoke ."
"I don't smoke either." Jiang Yichuan said expressionlessly.
Su Ming didn't know what expression he should put on now. He thought to himself, "If you don't smoke, why do you want me to smoke? Do I usually show any signs of wanting to smoke?"
"It would be interesting to ease the atmosphere a little, wouldn't it?" Jiang Yichuang seemed to have noticed Su Ming's confusion and took the initiative to explain.
Su Ming didn't know what expression he should make. Should he smile in agreement? Or was it too late to smile now?
"You already know the price of my contract, right? I made two contracts with the Devil of Love. The first was my ability to express my emotions, and the second was other people's positive feelings towards me... What do you think of me?" Jiang Yichuang said.
"I think you're a good person, Captain." Su Ming said, hesitated for a moment, and added, "Very reliable."
"It doesn't sound like you're lying. From what I've observed you do have positive feelings towards me, which is odd."
"Captain, it sounds weird for two grown men like us to always talk about feelings and stuff." Su Ming muttered while scratching his head.
“Sorry, this is a little awkward, but it’s really weird that your positive emotions towards me aren’t absorbed.
This time I'm not looking for you to talk about this, but I want to ask you to do me a favor. If you have anything in the future, you can tell me directly, especially about me. It's best not to talk to anyone else, because I am just an NPC who has no positive impression on others. Do you understand ?"
Jiang Yichuan paused for a moment, fearing that he had not explained it clearly, so he gave an example:
"Xiao Ming, do you remember that I would bring breakfast to everyone in the department every day, and I would also make a special breakfast for the minister? I do that to avoid the negative effects caused by the cost.
I try my best to make people around me feel comfortable. Although this may not make everyone like me, it will rationally raise their threshold for being disliked, so that I can proceed with my work as normally as possible.
I'm not sure what you said to the minister, but it's best not to mention anything about me. Anything you say about me may cause the minister to have negative feelings towards me.
Most of the emotions between people are very complicated, ranging from simple likes and dislikes to a mixture of the two. Just like a friend is very nice to you but likes to brag, you will most likely tolerate his shortcoming of bragging and even think it is an interesting personality trait of his, but this will not happen to me.
The simpler the relationship between me and the people around me, the better. It would be best if it were just a cooperative relationship, so that the emotional output of people around me towards me is the most stable. "
The calm and uneventful tone made Su Ming feel inexplicably heavy.
What is the difference between the captain's living environment and Xia Xiaoyu's previous living environment ?
"Don't worry, I'm used to it." Jiang Yichuan put his hand on Su Ming's shoulder. "Before the deal, the minister had already told me the consequences. Compared with the power I've gained, it's no problem to endure this little bit of distress. I just want to kill the Demon of Love with my own hands in the end... Su Ming, can you help me?"
"Help you kill your sister?" Su Ming frowned.
"That's right." Jiang Yichuang nodded slightly.
Su Ming felt Jiang Yichuan's obsession with revenge. He knew that this crusade against Jiang Xueying would be extremely risky, and he also knew that dragging himself into the battle would put him in danger, but the captain still chose to make a request to him, just to increase the chances of revenge.
"Why did your sister kill your parents?"
"Because my parents favor boys over girls, so...she did that." Jiang Yichuan clenched his fists, his tone still calm, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.
"This motive... is really ridiculous." Su Ming touched his chin and muttered to himself. He felt something was wrong.
"The thoughts of a madman are incomprehensible, and there is no need to understand. I want to kill her to avenge my parents... What I have to do is that simple. I know it will feel strange for you to help me kill my sister, but don't worry. Apart from the similarities in genes, we have no relationship at all. Don't think of her as my sister, just think of her as a demon... She is a demon." Jiang Yichuang said.
"Captain, do you really have to take revenge?" Su Ming asked.
Jiang Yichuan put down his hand on Su Ming's shoulder. He looked at Su Ming with a calm gaze: "Are you going to persuade me to give up revenge too?"
Su Ming stared at the other person, silent for a long time, and then said, "No, it's not. Revenge is an understandable thing. I can fully understand it emotionally, but being overwhelmed by the desire for revenge, wanting to complete revenge at all costs, and even betting your entire life... I don't think this is good.
If you don't have that ability, then you shouldn't destroy your life.
Of course I know you won't be able to listen to me, because the value of things has become different in your eyes and mine, and your life may have no value in your own eyes.
So I won't help you...but I will go and defeat the Demon of Love."
Jiang Yichuan opened his mouth slightly, but his surprise did not show on his face.
Su Ming turned around and walked out of the alley, saying with his back to the other person: "I'm not helping you with revenge, I'm just trying to eliminate a potential danger to a human being."
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"Oh, so that means I have no good feelings towards the Captain now because he and the Devil of Love traded our positive feelings towards him, right?"
Xia Xiaoyu, who was lying next to Su Ming, asked seriously.
"That's about it, so do you think I should help the captain?" Su Ming asked.
Thinking back to what he had said to Jiang Yichuang before, Su Ming felt like a saint who was unaware of other people's sufferings. It seemed like he wanted to help Jiang Yichuang, but in fact he was just repeating the principles that everyone knew to the captain. He did not put himself in the other person's shoes at all, let alone understand the other person's inner feelings.
This behavior must appear very hypocritical and sanctimonious in the eyes of others.
But Su Ming knew that he was serious about what he said. Although everyone should be the master of their own life, Su Ming believed that Jiang Yichuang should not make the decision for himself in the current situation.
"Have you ever heard this saying, 'Don't try to persuade others to do good if you don't know their sufferings? '" Xia Xiaoyu asked.
"You think I'm a hypocrite?"
"Um... slightly? A bit?"
"So you're telling me not to stop him?"
