Without true love, prioritize hard conditions over soft ones.

You know what you want, and you also know what you’re willing to give up. For someone who has made that clarity clear, blessings are enough. Whether you are rich or poor, whether you are healthy or sick, you get what you’ve consciously chosen — because it’s all something you’ve already thought through.

For those without true love, hard conditions will always outweigh soft ones. Hard conditions are not easily overcome; the success rate is very low. Breaking through hard conditions is extremely difficult, with less than a 1% chance.

Most people are just Runtu.

When Runtu was young, he was also a heroic youth, with light in his eyes. He liked to swagger around with a trident, pretending to be like Poseidon, the sea god. But after reaching middle age, he would only shyly address others as “Master.”

So the probability of someone’s personality staying unchanged their entire life is not as high as you might think — at least not 100%, as many believe. It’s probably no more than 50%.

Now think about it: two men, one with hard conditions and one with soft conditions. If you choose the latter, what are the odds?

Without true love, if you choose the man with soft conditions, he has less than a 1% chance of ever gaining those hard conditions. But if you choose the man with hard conditions, he has a 50% chance of also possessing those soft ones.

How many women complain in real life that they chose a man because he was sweet-talking, hoping he’d later become wealthy and still charming — only to find that after decades of marriage, he has neither money nor sweetness?