Jiang Qi felt somewhat embarrassed by the remark. In fact, he hadn’t done anything; he had only cried. It was Bai Zhi who had come out on her own.
It really had nothing to do with him.
"What does it have to do with me? I just cried."
Bai Zhi shook her head, her gaze sincere as a smile lifted the corners of her mouth.
"No, it’s not like that. How can I put it? No one has ever asked me if it hurts.
That warmth is something you wouldn’t understand. No one had ever said so before, it was like warm sunshine in the winter.
It made me feel that, actually, the world is quite warm.
Even if I grew up in darkness, there’s still a lot of warmth in the world."
Actually, sometimes, every ray of light in the darkness can be a form of redemption.
"Did I... really give you warmth?" Jiang Qi seemed somewhat confused but hearing Bai Zhi say this, he was very happy.
It turned out he could also do something for others.
"Of course. Sometimes, a casual word from you might bring hope to someone else, so I think journalists are great. Keep it up, and you’ll surely become the hope of many people."
Bai Zhi nodded emphatically, at least in that moment she really felt very warm.
"Okay, got it. I’ll keep trying hard," Jiang Qi nodded with determination.
It was because of Bai Zhi’s words that he would later become the warm-hearted Teacher Jiangbei who warmed countless people.
"Let’s continue then," Jiang Qi took a deep breath, trying hard to stabilize his emotions.
At that moment, he regained the composure that a journalist should have.
"Bai Zhi, I want to know what your thoughts on weight loss are. Should girls not lose weight at all? Why do girls want to lose weight? Is it for someone they like?"
Actually, this was something Jiang Qi could not understand either. Many girls, including his colleagues and his mother, were always talking about losing weight.
Wasn’t this just making trouble for oneself, scrimping on food and clothing, yet willing to spend on weight loss?
"Do you know? Because of this incident, many girls, who don’t have money to buy food or clothes, would rather nibble on steamed buns every day just to buy weight loss products, and they end up harming their health. Isn’t this somewhat... well, it makes me feel quite sad."
When Jiang Qi said this, he actually felt pity because those weight loss products were not cheap, costing hundreds of yuan, which is now many people’s salary for a month or even two.
To buy them would require saving for a long time. Was being thin worth it?
Bai Zhi blinked, smiling as she looked at him.
"What you’ve said is probably a man’s perspective. Why should girls only want to be pretty for others? They should do it for themselves.
We like to become beautiful, and we look better in our clothes, which is a sense of happiness that boys can’t give.
And the desire to become beautiful is definitely not wrong."
Bai Zhi had never felt that wanting to become beautiful was a problem.
"But if you don’t want to be thin, you won’t..."
"That’s not right. If you don’t want to be thin, you won’t get deceived? Then if you don’t want to be hungry, you don’t need to eat; if you don’t want to study, you don’t need to go to school?"
Bai Zhi felt that it was this statement that was the problem.
"Wanted to become beautiful, wanting to be thin, there’s nothing wrong with that. What’s wrong are the crooks, those illegal traders, not the victimized girls, understand?"
Bai Zhi looked at Jiang Qi, and every word she said actually made Jiang Qi understand a bit more, though it seemed different from what he had thought before.