Chapter 102: The Childfree Girl

Chapter 102: Chapter 102: The Childfree Girl

Divorced, ex-husband dead, and a good match for Hui Zi...

’Someone like that should be easy to track down, right?’

On his way back to the stream, Zhang Zhe did a quick online search to see if he could find any information.

But unfortunately, the gossip of Qing City’s wealthy elite wasn’t newsworthy enough. Of course, it was also possible any mention had been scrubbed from the internet.

He returned to his stream.

[Does anyone know when Brother Zhang is coming back?]

[I think some older lady just called the streamer away.]

[If it’s an older lady, he’ll probably be back in a minute, tops.]

[I gotta admire guys like Brother Zhang who are actually willing to become a rich lady’s boy toy.]

[Wait, is Brother Zhang not coming back?]

"I just stepped away to meet a client, and you all have already come up with so many stories?" Zhang Zhe chuckled as he read the comments upon his return.

"Alright, settle down. Is that young lady from before still on the line?"

Someone had already been on the video call before Zhang Zhe left; Boss He had insisted he step away.

"I’m still here."

"Sir, can I continue now?"

"Yes, go on."

The young woman’s voice was clear and direct, not the clingy, cutesy type.

She had already given her basic information:

Born in 2001, height 169 cm, weight 55 kg, a 4 out of 10 in looks.

She held a bachelor’s degree in computer science from a domestic 985 university, went to the United Kingdom for a one-year "paper" master’s, and was currently a programmer at a major tech company in Shencheng City, with an annual salary of around 300,000 yuan.

That salary was a bit low.

It was basically the bargain-bin price for a 985 computer science undergrad; anyone who passed the interview would start at that salary.

A more exceptional undergrad could easily make 400,000 or 500,000 yuan.

For this young woman to have gone to the United Kingdom to gild her resume and still come back to a standard undergrad’s salary was, frankly, a bit unusual.

That’s why Zhang Zhe had pointedly asked her a few technical questions earlier.

For now, he could confirm she was a genuine employee at a major tech company.

Her skills were just a bit lacking.

She probably got into the company because her study abroad experience in the United Kingdom gave her an edge.

Just a low-level code monkey at a major corporation.

The programmer community was actually quite small, especially in Shencheng City. If Zhang Zhe really wanted to, he could probably find one of the woman’s colleagues and get her completely doxxed.

Zhang Zhe had brought this up with her.

The woman had sworn that everything she said was the absolute truth, and that she had no problem with Zhang Zhe trying to dox her.

"Even though I’m twenty-four, I’ve never been in a relationship."

"It’s mostly due to my family environment."

"My mother works at a private company, and my father is a small business owner. Their relationship is okay, I guess, but my dad is what you’d call a total scumbag. As far as I know, he has at least two illegitimate children, and the youngest is only four years old."

[Is having illegitimate kids the new trend for bosses now?]

[Must be a huge gap in status between your parents, huh?]

[Her dad isn’t from Xiangjiang, is he? Rich guys from there love finding second wives over in Shencheng City.]

The bullet comments were on the same wavelength as Zhang Zhe.

Years ago, before Shencheng City was as developed as it is today, wealthy men from neighboring Xiangjiang would often come over and spend money to find a partner.

Back then, in the villages of Shencheng City near the border crossing, many unmarried women turned this into a veritable industry.

There was even a popular scheme: "An old man supports me, and I support you."

It was a multi-level subcontracting system; the money from the old man from Xiangjiang ultimately ended up in the pocket of a young pretty boy.

Considering the young woman’s age, he really couldn’t rule out this possibility.

"Young lady, given your father’s behavior, the fact that your mother hasn’t divorced him... does that mean she only married him for his money in the first place?"

"I think so," the woman answered honestly. "My mom used to be a receptionist at a company. By the time she met my dad, he was already very wealthy."

"So, do you still have any hope for marriage?"

"I do. I still want to get married," she explained. "I don’t have any assets to my name—no house, no car. And while I theoretically have a claim to my father’s fortune, he has illegitimate children to think about."

"I can’t necessarily count on getting any of it."

"The cost of living here in Shencheng City is too high. I’d also like to use marriage to make my life a little easier."

"That’s the right way to think about it." Zhang Zhe nodded, then explained to his audience, "This young woman’s situation is what I’d call a cooperative marriage."

"It’s the marriage model most suited to the current meta."

"I assume you don’t require a bride price?"

"I don’t, but we must have a wedding."

"Hmm. In that case, it should be pretty easy to find you a match."

The woman’s answer was exactly what Zhang Zhe had expected.

Generally, independent women in big cities had very relaxed requirements when it came to the bride price.

And by "independent," he meant truly independent—the kind who could support themselves, not those who were merely "spiritually independent" while still sucking their parents dry financially.

"Has no one in your life pursued you?"

"I seem to recall that as long as a female programmer doesn’t have a terrible personality, there’s usually someone interested in her. When I was working, the handful of women at my company all had boyfriends back in college."

[Streamer, aren’t you just asking a leading question? She obviously has a bad personality.]

[She’s basically a second-gen Shencheng local. They usually don’t date outsiders.]

[Don’t second-gen Shencheng locals only date other locals? It’s a bit like the people from Sang Haining.]

[She has zero relationship experience. Her family must have really messed her up.]

"My situation is a little... special." The woman gave a self-deprecating laugh. "It’s probably because of my family background, but... I don’t want to have children."

"DINK?"

"Yes."

"Did you already feel this way back when you were in school?"

"I had already made up my mind back in college."

"Ah, that explains it." Zhang Zhe had a moment of realization.

If a woman labeled herself as "DINK" in the dating world, most men who were looking for marriage would hesitate upon meeting her.

Most men wouldn’t even try to get involved with her.

When a woman says she wants to be DINK, she means she is truly never having children.

A woman’s prime childbearing years are from age twenty-five to thirty. If she decides to be child-free during this period, she may not be able to have children later even if she regrets it.

But it wasn’t necessarily the same for a man who claimed to be DINK.

In many DINK couples, the man changes his mind in his thirties or forties. The death of their own parents often triggers a desire in many men to have children of their own.

"In that case, you have only two options."

"One is to find a man your age who is also willing to be child-free with you, but whose circumstances are not as good as yours."

"The other is to find a much older man who already has children of his own and would be fine with you not having any."

[The streamer is basically telling you to find a guy who’s infertile.]

[Brother Zhang, I’m impotent! Can you introduce me to this girl?]

[She just doesn’t want kids, not that she doesn’t want a sex life. Don’t get it twisted, people.]

[To be honest, guys who are infertile can have really weird tempers. Most people can’t handle it.]

"I’m fine with either of those."

"Sir, where can I find men like that?" The woman took a deep breath. "That’s my problem right now. I have no way of knowing if a man is genuinely DINK, or if he’s just lying to get into my pants."

"That’s why I’ve always been so wary of the opposite sex."

"Of all the guys my age at my company, it seems like none of them have ever said they don’t want children."

"That’s because you’re looking in the wrong place," Zhang Zhe analyzed. "You need to look for men from broken homes, or from families with lots of children."