Qian Xiaoxiao touched her buzz cut and asked Sister Xin for a hat, saying, "If I go back looking like this, my parents are going to nag again about how I won't be able to get married."
Once they see her looking like this, they will definitely say she won't be able to marry, and then tell her to grow her hair out and keep it neat. She had listened to them talk so much when she was younger, she found the idea of marriage terrifying. All the dos and don'ts, any slight mistake would prompt remarks about how the in-laws would look down on her. Now that she was older and had seen more of the world, she was even less willing to get married. Without money, a man was like a dead dog; with money, he swaggered around finding other women. So why get married? Being single, comfortable, and free was so much better.
