Dong Siyue also advised, "Qingqing is right. You're only in your early thirties, have a respectable job, a master's degree, and are not bad-looking. You can definitely find an excellent man, better than that bastard Yu Shaoning."

Lu Ziqun shook her head, lacking confidence, and said, "I'm not that good. I'm not good-looking, I'm not a local from Pingjiang, and I don't own a house. What good man would want me? Marrying a bad man would be even more exhausting."

She might as well stay with Yu Shaoning. At worst, they can just be business partners. Yu Shaoning can protect her dignity, and she can just pretend to be single, not spending Yu Shaoning's money and not getting involved in his affairs.

Ye Qingqing frowned. Lü Ziqun was much more insecure than when she was in school. The Lü Ziqun of the past was confident and enthusiastic, but now she was insecure to the core. She wondered what she had been through all these years.

"Ziqun, you used to be the confident and cheerful Squad Leader Lü, unafraid of anything, no matter how difficult it was. Why are you so timid and hesitant now?"

"Yes, you've changed so much. You used to be so intolerant of infidelity, but now you can actually tolerate your husband's cheating." Dong Siyue's words were a bit harsh; she truly didn't understand Lü Ziqun's thinking.

Lu Ziqun laughed self-deprecatingly, "I didn't know my own limitations before. After entering society, I realized how foolish I was. Don't be fooled by my postgraduate degree and university teacher status. In many people's eyes, I'm nothing. Just a girl from a small county town, not good-looking, no money, no house, no support. Local men look down on me, and men from other places despise me because I can't help them. Ha... I'm so tired of blind dates these days. I'm really exhausted."

During her postgraduate studies, she focused solely on her studies and paid no attention to anything else. After graduating and staying on to work at the university, she was already quite old and began to consider marriage. Colleagues and friends enthusiastically introduced her to potential partners, both local and from out of town, and she went on all the blind dates. However, reality dealt her a harsh blow.

Local men with better financial conditions, even those with lower education levels, look down on her ordinary appearance, thinking she looks too old and doesn't know how to be charming. Even during blind dates, she can sense their disdain.

The local men who were interested in her were not well-off; their houses were cramped, their education was only associate degree, and their jobs were not satisfactory. They didn't look down on her, but Lü Ziqun looked down on them.

After suffering several setbacks, Lü Ziqun stopped going on blind dates with local men. She lowered her standards and started looking for men from other places who were highly educated and worked in Pingjiang, just like her.

But despite her beautiful dreams, reality dealt her a heavy blow; those men also looked down on her.

Because she wasn't a local of Pingjiang, she didn't own a house, and she was all alone in Pingjiang without any help. Those outsiders only wanted to find local girls from Pingjiang, even if they had lower education levels, so that they could avoid working for thirty years.

Lu Ziqun sighed, "You don't know, after graduating with my master's degree, I went on more than thirty blind dates, sometimes ten or more a month. Every time it was unsatisfactory. The good ones didn't like me, and I didn't like the bad ones. Although there were some people who pursued me, they were all out-of-towners like me, struggling to make it in Pingjiang, and their looks were really not good. I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, I just want to find someone good-looking so that when we have children in the future, we can change our genes and not have children like me who are ordinary."

Therefore, as soon as Yu Shaoning appeared, she married him without hesitation.

No man had ever pursued her as handsome as him before. Even though he was divorced, unenthusiastic, and showed no love in his eyes, she still married him because of his good looks and because Yu Shaoning could help her in her career.