Doctor: Picking Up Attributes in the Hospital

Chapter 565 - 432: Bridal Gown Freedom?

"Hey, look at this news. It says a girl wore a wedding dress to attend a male idol’s concert, and then her boyfriend broke up with her."Xu Hongdou spoke suddenly while playing on her phone and eating.

Talking about Zhao Heng and her sister Xu Man Ni’s engagement, Xu Hongdou saw this news and had to comment.

"Brother-in-law, what do you think about this?"

After a pause, Xu Hongdou suddenly asked Zhao Heng with great curiosity.

"Honestly?"

Zhao Heng said.

"Of course. Neither my sister nor I are idol fans, so of course, we’re talking honestly."

Xu Hongdou nodded.

"If the wedding dress didn’t have special significance, these girls wouldn’t wear a wedding dress to attend the concert, and no one would talk about them. It’s precisely because they know the wedding dress has special significance that they wear it to the concert and end up breaking up."

"If saying this is just freedom of dress we must admit, then a guy wanting to break up because of this is also something we must admit. If a girl truly loves you, she would come to see you in a wedding dress rather than ask you for a dowry."

Zhao Heng thought for a moment and said.

"I saw a comment below. A guy prepared everything for the wedding: the dowry, the house, just waiting to get married. They dated for three years, and because his girlfriend went to the idol’s concert in a wedding dress, he broke up."

Xu Hongdou continued.

"Isn’t going to see an idol in a wedding dress supposedly marrying youth?"

Xu Man Ni chuckled, saying that since childhood, the line of boys chasing her could stretch from the Second Ring to the outskirts, so she wasn’t interested in male celebrities.

"If you marry youth, is marrying someone else afterward considered a second marriage?"

Zhao Heng couldn’t help but say.

"Haha! It’s probably considered a second marriage, after all, you’ve already married once."

Xu Hongdou laughed happily and said.

"Speaking of this, I thought of something. In ancient times, emperors with great accomplishments often liked to go to Mount Tai for a ritual. From the Emperor who unified China to the learned and skilled Han Wudi, even Emperor Gaozong of Tang with his achievements, the only one who did was Song Zhenzong, and after that, no emperor ever went again. Early Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang had the achievements but didn’t go."

Zhao Heng said.

"Huh? What’s with Song Zhenzong? Why didn’t other emperors go after he went to Mount Tai?"

Xu Hongdou asked with great curiosity.

"You claim to be a liberal arts student, yet because Song Zhenzong took the treaty of peace as the basis for his ritual, the treaty essentially meant paying money for peace. He lowered the standard of the ritual so much that later emperors didn’t want to stand alongside him, so they didn’t go."

Xu Man Ni gave Xu Hongdou a look and said.

"I see, huh. Sis, I didn’t expect you’re pretty good with history. So, is this kind of like a bachelor’s gown nowadays, which is totally mainstream? Bachelors wear it, even those without a degree wear it, even kindergarten graduates wear it."

"If that’s the case, perhaps wedding dresses will be taken less seriously in the future, since our traditional wedding attire is the phoenix crown and shawl, and it’s not a wedding dress at all."

Xu Hongdou thought for a moment and said.

"Nowadays, Xiuhe dresses are quite attractive. Some brands design them really well, and you don’t necessarily have to wear a wedding dress."

Xu Man Ni nodded and said.

"Brother-in-law, from a guy’s perspective, why do you think responses to this are so strong? Some even break up over it?"

Xu Hongdou asked again.

"I don’t know how others think, but if it happened to me, I’d think: you wear a wedding dress, a garment with special significance, to attend your idol’s concert, claiming it’s marrying youth. The meaning is clear: you want to marry the idol, but you can’t, so your heart is with the idol, and I’m just your second choice."

"Well, if a girl values her boyfriend even a little, I don’t think she’d do something like that."

Zhao Heng spoke slowly.

In this life, it’s all about comfort. Love and marriage, in modern society, inherently require far more investment than the returns.

To put it plainly, marriage is a losing deal.

So why do young people nowadays not want to marry?

Here, the author advises everyone, especially the young: can you truly handle the consequences of not marrying?

Imagine working late and being alone, only able to open the computer to play games, or meeting up with friends to drink and rant about everything. Don’t you feel lonely?

With no one to accompany you, you’re left to travel or party with your best friends or play on Switch. Isn’t it boring?

With no one cooking for you, wait, that’s the same even after marriage, so you have to cook what you want or order delivery—fried chicken, beer, crayfish, grilled fish, spicy skewers, Sichuan spicy hot pot, Haidilao hot pot, foil grilled meat. Aren’t you sick of eating that every day?

No pressure from buying a house, car, or dealing with marriage and children. If you want to quit your job, you quit, and whether your salary is high or low, it’s enough to spend. Sleeping until you wake naturally on weekends—this life doesn’t scare you?

Isn’t it terrifying?

Huh?!

At your age, how can you still sleep soundly?

"Brother-in-law, your words sound quite sincere."

Xu Hongdou nodded, noticing Zhao Heng never lectures but always shares his genuine feelings, making interactions quite comfortable.