Duan Rou also knew she had been hopelessly stupid back then. She lowered her head, utterly remorseful.
"Anyway, I muddled along in that three-person relationship for ages. Then one day, I saw that son of a bitch out spending my money on food, booze, prostitutes, gambling, and picking up women everywhere."
"I finally realized this wasn't love at all. It was a ridiculous melodrama about an idiot being deceived by a scumbag, brainwashed by his sweet talk every day until her whole worldview was warped. So I walked away."
"That should have been the end of it, but... after we broke up, that guy kept pestering me every day, threatening and blackmailing me with those bedroom photos, demanding money every single day!"
"Once, twice, ten times, twenty times, a hundred times, two hundred times! It never ended! He treated me like an ATM!"
"But I didn't dare refuse. I had my pride. I was afraid of being humiliated. Besides, I got another boyfriend later, and I was even more afraid he'd find out how ridiculously stupid I'd been. My second boyfriend treated me well, really well. I didn't want him to know the truth, dump me, or look at me differently!"
"So I gave Pi Chenning money, over and over and over! Thinking back now, maybe I handed it over so easily because he never asked for much at a time. A few thousand, ten thousand or so-that was just my daily spending money."
"I muddled my way through college like that. Thanks to Pi Chenning, my second boyfriend and I still ended up breaking up. Then I finally snapped. I hated his guts. No matter how he threatened me, I just stopped giving a damn. I refused to give him any money."
"And I told him, 'Post them if