I am not Ximen Qing.

Chapter 370 The Happy Life of Men

Viola finally found in Rousseau that transcendent, omnipresent love and the sense of excellence in love, the presence of a queen of love.

She made Rousseau feel incredibly inferior. Viola knew that the most ruthless part of Rousseau's trilogy of seduction was making so-called "big movies" for his lovers. What is the weakness of beautiful girls and goddesses? It's vanity. In literary history, Madame Bovary was the most destroyed by vanity. To satisfy her vanity, she fell into an inescapable debt trap. It is said that she learned this from the so-called director Big D. In his early days, Big D was quite the godfather-like nouveau riche. He was very lucky. He made a fortune from mining and mining all kinds of minerals. He could make a fortune. Anyway, he was enough to become a director. He was definitely trying to make up for the regrets of his youth. Because that era was the epitome of monogamy, the emperor of the era felt that he should be reborn. Now, in this golden age, especially the golden age of love and romance, youth is wasted, time is wasted, and there has been no passionate love. But that doesn't matter. Middle-aged men are in their prime for romance. What a wonderful era! Girls love older men. You're a filmmaker, a painter, an artist—the kind of older man who's incredibly popular with girls. You're rich, have plenty of money, and are quite avant-garde. Unlike today's stingy, herbivorous older men who spend money like water, you're just trying to make up for the regret of not having dated enough women in your youth. And big-budget films are the perfect industry to showcase vanity. So, Big D became a director and screenwriter, recruiting a whole bunch of female assistants. Big D's most famous line comes from his reality show, *The Metamorphosis*.

"Give me 10,000 yuan, and I can turn it into 100 million yuan."

Perhaps that's a bit of an exaggeration, but Big D's earning speed was roughly the same as his spending speed. Big D's spending methods certainly fooled many wealthy people. Rousseau admired Big D quite a bit; for example, he used Big D to portray love through big-budget films, which was quite effective, just incredibly expensive. At this point, some people would laugh at Rousseau, calling him stingy. They'd point out how much money Ximen Qing and Jia Baoyu were willing to spend on romance. If you really want to learn from Ximen Qing and Jia Baoyu, you have to be willing to spend money and put in real effort. If you can't even afford to invest in a movie, what kind of romance are you talking about? Everyone despises Rousseau's disrespect for love and affection, saying he's not even a hair on Ximen Qing's head. Ximen Qing, aside from his frequenting brothels, was actually kind and loyal to all the women, willing to spend money. To not spend money on romance is pure scoundrel behavior and deserves to go to hell. Why didn't Ximen Qing go to hell? It's because Ximen Qing rescued many women who couldn't find husbands, and because he genuinely spent money—money lavishly—on women's love and happiness, buying them all sorts of luxury goods and building grand villas. From a contemporary perspective, Ximen Qing in *Jin Ping Mei* is undoubtedly a good man. His biggest flaw in his family life is that he married too many wives, making it impossible to treat them all equally. Otherwise, you really can't find any fault with Ximen Qing. It's unclear whether the author of *Jin Ping Mei* intended to praise or belittle Ximen Qing. The author created the image of the perfect Chinese man—a wealthy, lustful wealthy man—as Ximen Qing. Perhaps the author didn't anticipate that the protagonist of *Jin Ping Mei* would become such a perfect man.

"I helped Yang Guang dispose of a batch of gift cards."

Rousseau preemptively boasted to Big D that he was a loyal friend, a man of great brotherhood. Big D utterly despised this trait in Rousseau; "Brotherhood," he thought, "I'd be lucky if he didn't betray his own brothers."

"Yang Guang was a lecherous man who had no regard for brotherhood or loyalty."

Actually, Big D quite admired Yang Guang; otherwise, he wouldn't have cast Yang Guang in his most valued work, "The Happy Life of Men." However, the old guy always seemed to have a knack for luck—writing scripts, selling scripts, mining for gold and silver—basically, he made money no matter what he did. That's just luck; when it comes, nothing is a problem. Money flows in like water. But when Big D spends money, he's no less extravagant than the four great playboys of the Republic of China! Of course, Big D always boasts about himself; he has countless women and lovers, too many to count, and he can't remember them all, nor does he want to. Look at Big D's grand theory: women can be lovers without marriage. But one has to admire Big D's theory of never marrying; he lives by his own theory. When it comes to love, the fighting spirit of love, and ability, Big D is absolutely confident he's far superior to Rousseau. Look at what these cronies are comparing! It's all about who has more lovers, who has more relationships, and they all stay true to their old ways: who can make more money. From the perspective of the principles of innovation and evolution in a diversified society, these cronies haven't completely fallen from grace. First of all, money is always the most important thing in this society. Big D Movies enjoyed a period of popularity online, but Big D's vision was lacking; they didn't attract capital investment in time. If they had, perhaps they would have become a great Chinese film company surpassing Hollywood. These guys with grand dreams are actually all about chasing women, pursuing romance, and having affairs. That's their core nature. Perhaps this is the instinct driving social progress—it's God's law, even Henry... Even DoctorAI, the robot goddess company, dared not defy God's laws. The Great Emperor, a Hollywood director idolized by Spielberg and the alien DJ, cast Yang Guang—ah, Yang Guang from the Sui Dynasty—as the male lead in this film, continuing as the male lead of the Great Earth Cinema. The film imitates the art of *Jin Ping Mei*, featuring a decadent, shirtless man. Don't worry, Great D has some sense; this isn't Ximen Qing. Ximen Qing is a wealthy man, handsome, and a fashion icon who loves luxurious clothes. However, Yang Guang is undeniably a lecherous man. What man in this world isn't lecherous? Unless—no, unless every man is lecherous, it's only natural. There's no such thing as a truly humble man who isn't lecherous. Would he even be considered a man if he weren't? This is all an exaggerated interpretation of Da D's love and romantic ideals, a distorted artistic theory of *Jin Ping Mei*. In reality, *Jin Ping Mei* is simply a story about the lives of a high-ranking official with 376 concubines in a grand mansion. While it does contain some erotic elements, what novel doesn't? Yet, *Jin Ping Mei* has become a top-tier, most popular novel. Perhaps this is a case of "losing one thing but gaining another," conforming to the law of conservation of energy. Modern capitalists may outwardly appear to live ascetic lives like monks, but aren't they secretly living lives far more luxurious than Ximen Qing's? Who dares to mock Ximen Qing now? In a small film scene, a lewd, shirtless man, blindfolded and with outstretched arms, is undoubtedly fantasizing about a beautiful woman. The creativity of art lies in this: allowing imagination and dreams to emerge within the mind and soul of this shirtless, blindfolded man, creating a Venus. A painted-skin demon and a White Bone Demon ate him. The lighting was cheerful, perhaps inspired by the love story between the Spider Demon and Pigsy in Journey to the West. Inside, a large bed covered in red silk creaked with springs. A bikini-clad woman dodged and weaved, tempting the blindfolded sunlight—or perhaps, the blindfolded Pigsy. Big D kept talking about Parrot Dielove, a paradise. Love, love in heaven, lovers in heaven, beauties in heaven, goddesses in heaven, but Yang Wanli and Rousseau still became little followers of the earth, going to nightclubs to drink, pick up girls, and stuff money into the pockets of a group of beauties. Dali liked to use this method to find the creativity and feeling of movies, using this kind of debauchery to find the inspiration and soul of the next movie. However, Hollywood movies have now evolved into the age of artificial intelligence and no longer use real people to make movies. It seems that Hollywood movies have truly achieved diversity, and the social evolution has no longer resulted in green movies without any discrimination. Rousseau once flirted with the top-notch lightning girl in the Venus Temple in heaven. Lightning girl is the most money-making goddess of the temple, absolutely the goddess level of men's dreams. How can one sigh that there is no longer a girl like lightning girl? She is simply a dream lover. It seems that dream lovers exist, absolutely exist in dreams, and can never be forgotten. Men are surrounded by beautiful girls, and men always like to lie, lie to their lovers, as if men's lies about love are money in the girls' pockets. The existence of food that is infused with fragrance and flavor, the great man in *Jin Ping Mei*, Ximen Qing, is just like that, maneuvering between his lovers in brothels and his many wives and concubines. The connections between families exist, and the Ming and Song dynasties truly carried forward Guan Zhong's open-minded spirit. Perhaps the cultural figures and scholar-officials living in the Ming and Song dynasties were the happiest men. The greatness of *Jin Ping Mei* lies in the fact that it didn't deliberately write or express anything; it was simply a natural existence, allowing him to capture the sparks of human nature and create such a magnificent, dreamlike novel. So much so that men want to return to the world of *Jin Ping Mei*, to Ximen Qing's mansion. In that mansion, men, for the sake of great love and affection, always act like Ximen Qing—no, Ximen Qing naturally and openly discussed love and affection, without lying. But nowadays, men, for the sake of love, for infidelity, for adultery, are forced to… To navigate relationships with lovers and for certain purposes, lies are told in ways that are not simply about love and affection. But laliaisliarslrarsliars… one lie leads to ten thousand more to cover it up. A lie begins as just a lie, but now it gradually becomes reality. There is a cause-and-effect relationship between lies and reality. If, every time you encounter obstacles in love, you always think of the omnipotent existence of D, the great theory of the earth lies in his ability to be like Ximen Qing, in not taking love and affection too seriously. Taking love and affection seriously means losing, losing obligations means losing everything, losing means becoming a naked Adam. But in the real world, taking a rib to create another Eve is difficult. However, now it's Dr. Henry's world, the AI ​​robot goddess company, the goddess company, countless perfect goddesses coming off the production line every day are constantly flooding the world. The diversified society is constantly evolving, constantly innovating, creating too many perfect goddesses to satisfy the needs of love and affection.

"Take a look at this book and see what you can discover from it."

"It's just a book, what can you possibly discover?"

"It's a woman's secret, all women in the world are like that, and I'm just one of them. That's all..."

"Why does Viola trust me so much, when this book contains so many words searching for your secret?"

"You are my friend, and from now on you can only be my close friend, understand?"

Rousseau recalled Viola asking him to film a birthday video for her daughter. The scene, the diverse society, brought benefits and satisfaction to people's lives, providing a wide range of absolute fulfillment and experiences for all their needs. Family and home—Viola was quite satisfied with her own setup. Men are merely tools of desire; this is the true meaning of life. Women and men must always have a moment of madness, shouldn't they? This is what diversity is all about, without discrimination. In a constantly evolving and innovative society, must men only become one Ximen Qing after another, constantly tempted in the outside world? Must women be left alone like Pan Jinlian? That's unfair. Now I understand, in the art of *Jin Ping Mei*, why did Pan Jinlian betray Ximen Qing's love? It was pure jealousy, jealousy of a woman's betrayal of duty, that is, having an affair with another man. Chen Jingji appeared; his incestuous relationship with his mother-in-law was a brilliant revenge against Ximen Qing.

"Viola, you've mistaken me for someone else. I'm not that despicable Ximen Qing. Even if I weren't Ximen Qing, I wouldn't lack women. Don't worry, I will definitely maintain our intimate relationship, that's all."

It seemed Rousseau's pride had been hurt; he felt somewhat insulted and regretted his words. However, he couldn't retract his resentment. Women always seemed cautious and timid when approaching men, but once they got to know them, they seemed to devour their souls and immediately transform into something else entirely. Were women born to turn great men into pathetic figures like Wu Dalang? Even Emperor Gaozu of Han couldn't control his family, and Emperor Wu of Han couldn't control the court. Palace intrigue was always cruel and cutthroat; in the struggle for power, women were even more ruthless and stimulating than men.

"If you can't even be Ximen Qing, then I can't possibly be Pan Jinlian. And let's not talk about Caesar and Cleopatra, or Antony and the Egyptian Queen, or Romeo and Juliet—those are too old-fashioned, utter nonsense. You're a coward."

"Can't I be Othello? Are you Desdemona? I've forgotten."

"Shameless bastard, what exactly are you trying to say to me? You've done so many despicable things to me. Such utterly pathetic tactics."

Rousseau seemed pleased to record Viola's rage; he had finally found the opportune moment to express his theme. Only then could Viola be grateful for everything he had done for her. He now knew this wealthy woman all too well. She had plenty of money; she was a debt collection queen and a loan shark queen. All the men she knew were billionaires, but these billionaires couldn't satisfy Viola's vanity. Not every man could satisfy a woman's vanity. Communicating with this kind of woman required a wild, greedy thrill; the mundane couldn't satisfy her wild heart. Only a destructive, stimulating force could bring Viola pleasure.

"You said you wanted to make a movie, but I don't even understand it myself. What kind of movie can you make with 500 million? According to your requirements, you even want to mortgage your house to continue making movies. Is there any other woman in the world as twisted as you? I saved you all, so some of the money was misused, but the rest still had its purpose."

"You despicable wretch, you vile little man! If we hadn't saved you, think about what you would have become. Without our rescue, you wouldn't have been Caesar's favorite, and you wouldn't have had the chance to go to Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Without us, you wouldn't have been able to go to South America, North America, Latin America, or anything like that. Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico—all those opportunities in internet finance—we paved the way for you. What's the point of telling me all this now? Why do you always talk to me about what Othello cares about? Didn't Desdemona have the freedom to choose her own love? Why are you telling me why? Can you tell me why?"

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