Although Zheng Manxi now had something of a "support system," she never believed that this meant she could quit working and simply live off a man. Given the financial resources her younger man had demonstrated, she could certainly afford to lie back and take it easy, but she felt she needed a job no matter what. Her university teaching position was still a highly respectable career, and she didn't want to buy him a birthday gift using purely his money. Even though her self-esteem had steadily eroded, holding onto her job remained essential.
If her parents came here, they would inevitably go to the university. She knew her parents were capable of anything, and she could easily anticipate their rhetoric: they would accuse her of being unfilial, claiming they had raised her through untold hardships only for her to abandon them in their old age, embellishing the story with every detail of how heartless she was. By then, not only would her polished image as an urban professional collapse in front of colleagues and students, but she might even lose her job.
Even if she were entirely in the wrong, people only believed what they saw. Especially since she dressed sharply and elegantly, many people assumed her family background was quite good. Furthermore, there were always idle colleagues who envied her beauty and spread rumors behind her back, and they would undoubtedly seize the opportunity to amplify the gossip. She didn't believe that justice naturally prevailed in people's hear…
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