"Since it's your hobby, why must you give it up?"
Yu Nian said, "It's not that I want to give up, but… sometimes, between dreams and reality, one has to choose one."
Fangzheng was even more puzzled. "You have already earned a lot of money. Isn't that enough?"
Yu Nian took a deep breath and sucked to the end of the cigarette in his mouth. Then, he took out another cigarette and took another deep suck. After taking a deep breath, he exhaled a long puff of smoke, as if he had been holding it in for a long period of time. In a low voice, he said, "I told you that web novelists are not recognized by mainstream society. Therefore, when I met my girlfriend, I didn't hold any hope. Having gone on so many blind dates, what hope could there be?
"Thankfully, I paid the down payment for a house in the county and fully paid for a small car that cost more than a hundred thousand yuan. I also had some money in my pocket, so I wasn't as poor as before.
