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The More I Fail at Blind Dates, the More Successful My Life Gets

share time: 2025-12-27 00:30:20

Lin Xiaoman, a 28-year-old advertising planner driven to the edge by marriage pressure, has failed 36 blind dates in three years—finding the programmer so quiet he could count coffee grounds, complaining the doctor replied to patients’ messages even during dates, and even turning a rich kid’s show-off party into a charity market... But here’s the twist: every time she messed up a date, her career inspiration exploded—from designing lunch boxes for medical staff to developing a workplace social app, even the rich kid became her investor. When she finally found the courage to reject "marrying just anyone", Gu Yuchuan, the designer she’d once "sabotaged" by calling his "minimalist style frigid", showed up with the lunch box she designed: "Last time you said I 'made minimalism look frigid', I revised the design. Can I ask you out again... to critique me?" Turns out the best life isn’t about "settling for a partner", but about "not settling—and bumping into someone who gets you".

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