"My second boyfriend was a total scumbag. He only approached me to sleep with me." Liang Yanni paused. "Can this air if I say that?"
"Go ahead, it's fine!" Wei Zijin gave her an encouraging gesture. "We'll handle it in postproduction."
"Okay." As though she had been granted imperial authority, Liang Yanni cleared her throat and repeated herself without any prompting from the director.
"He was a complete and utter scumbag. All he wanted was to sleep with me."
"He bragged that he could introduce me to a good job, arrange for me to study abroad, or, failing that, at least get me recommended for postgraduate admission. He said I could take my pick of supervisors at Jiang University."
"How could I believe him at first? How could a graduate student have that much pull? But I saw how close he was with all those professors and teachers at the university, like they were brothers, and little by little, I fell for it."
"Until... he got what he wanted."
"Then he vanished. No answering calls, no replying to messages. He disappeared off the face of the earth."
A sneer curled Liang Yanni's lips. There wasn't a trace of pain in it, only contempt.
"I had to find a job myself. The university held several job fairs, and I didn't miss a single one. I figured that with Jiang University's name behind me, surely I could afford to be a little choosy?"
"And what happened? Reality slapped me until my face swelled."
"The ones I wanted didn't want me. The ones I didn't want didn't want me either!"
"Eventually, I wised up. I stopped sticking to campus and went to every job fair in the city. I practically ran my legs off and talked my lips raw."
"Only then did I