Un-Love: “The Man Rules” Falling (7) (Study.1)
- TwoJays MyEye
- Feb 26
- 4 min read
Updated: Apr 5
Maya discovered two books side by side on a peculiar shelf—one glowing with the steady blue light she had come to associate with Jeff's unwavering love, the other absorbing light like the volumes in the Hollow Archives. When opened together, they created a curious mathematical paradox: identical patterns that yielded entirely different results. This peculiar phenomenon. has always been, but now with the persistence and influence of social media, particularly on human spirits, has made this phenomenon more frequent. Instagram. Damn.
"What am I seeing?" she asked, bringing both volumes to the Librarian's desk.
The Librarian's form sharpened with interest as she examined the books. "Ah," she said, her voice carrying the wisdom of countless observed relationships. "You've found one of the most fascinating contradictions in the Library—the calculus of focused love versus hollow perception."
She opened the glowing book first. "When a man truly loves a woman, his attention creates a specific kind of geometry—observe."
The pages revealed intricate patterns of laser-sharp focus, where all equations inevitably calculated back to a single point. The mathematics showed how a truly loving man's thoughts, actions, and choices orbit around the woman he loves with precise gravitational certainty, even when external variables temporarily draw his attention elsewhere.
"This is the mathematics of genuine devotion," the Librarian explained. "Note how his attention may briefly calculate other problems, but his core equations always return to her with perfect consistency. His love creates a mathematical constant that influences all his other variables."
Then she opened the dark volume, and Maya gasped. The patterns were almost identical—the same focused attention was visible, but the geometry was interpreted it differently.
"And this," the Librarian continued, "is what happens when a woman who doesn't value herself observes those exact same patterns. Her hollow mathematics transforms his focus into something unrecognizable to her."
Maya studied the dark patterns. "But they're the same actions. Why do they calculate so differently?"
"Because of this." The Librarian reached into the shadows behind her desk and extracted a thin volume bound in darkness. Its title shifted as Maya tried to read it, eventually settling into words she could comprehend: "The Man Rules."
"This comes from the deepest section of the Hollow Archives," the Librarian explained. "It contains broken theorems passed down through generations of women who were taught to misinterpret love's geometry."
She opened the dark book, and Maya saw equations that deliberately mistranslated variables: attention became control, protection became restriction, focus became obsession. Every loving action was recalculated, and therefore perceived, through flawed constructs that rendered genuine connection impossible to recognize.
"A woman born of the Hollow Archives inherits these calculations," the Librarian said, tracing the distorted patterns with her finger. "She learns to apply these broken equations to her relationships, transforming even the most focused love into perceived neglect. It is possible to unlearn them but very challenging. It’s like walking, it’s hard to unlearn to walk, especially if you’re walking in step with someone who lives you.”
She turned to a page where the patterns briefly aligned before diverging dramatically. "See this point? This is where his laser focus and her hollow perception briefly synchronize before her inherited mathematics forces a misinterpretation. His devoted attention becomes smothering in her calculations. His consistent return to her becomes predictable boredom. His prioritization of her becomes something she must reject to prove her independence."
"That's tragic," Maya said, watching the beautiful patterns of love transform into geometries of rejection and misunderstanding.
"Yes," the Librarian agreed. "But there's hope in these equations too. Look what happens when we introduce a new variable."
She touched both books simultaneously, and a fresh pattern emerged between them—an entanglement of self-value and intensive self-reflection that creates a bridge between the disparate calculations.
"When a woman begins recognizing her own worth, she develops the ability to see through the hollow she inherited," the Librarian explained. "Interestingly, some of these 'Man Rules' can actually accelerate this process if she learns to invert them properly."
"How?" Maya asked, fascinated by the transforming patterns.
"The hollow mathematics teaches women to expect disappointment, to anticipate being undervalued. When a man's genuine focus defies these expectations—when his actions consistently contradict the broken equations—it creates anomalies she cannot ignore, but this requires and extreme level of self-awareness, very hard."
The Librarian demonstrated how these contradictions could create fractures in the hollow patterns, allowing new light to enter.
"Each time his focused true love disproves a 'rule' she's accepted as truth, it creates an opportunity for recalculation. If she simultaneously recognizes her own value, these moments can transform her entire understanding."
"So the very rules designed to keep her in darkness can become catalysts for her recognition of light, and the Threads of Light that create connection,” Maya realized, watching the patterns evolve.
"Precisely," the Librarian nodded. "A woman who begins valuing herself develops new sensitivities—she can distinguish between genuine focus and hollow imitations. She learns to recognize when a man's calculations consistently center her versus when she's merely an occasional variable in his equations."
Maya watched as the patterns from both books gradually synchronized, creating harmonics that resolved the previous contradictions. "And when she values herself while recognizing his genuine focus..."
"…They create a new geometric patters entirely," the Librarian completed, showing how the combined patterns generated extraordinary beauty and complexity. "One where his focus is neither misinterpreted nor taken for granted, but recognized as the genuine constant it is. And where her self-value enhances rather than rejects his attention."
The patterns pulsed with increasing brilliance, eventually creating results that transcended both original books—a theorem that proved how self-value and loving focus, when properly aligned, create equations that the Hollow Archives cannot comprehend or contain.
"This," the Librarian said, her form momentarily aligning with this radiant geometry, "is why the geometry of the heart can never be permanently corrupted. Even the darkest calculations can be rewritten when love and self-worth discover their shared variables."
The patterns settled into a steady, harmonious glow—a perfect geometry where laser focus and self-value calculated each other with flawless precision, proving theorems about connection that even the Hollow Archives could not permanently deny.
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