The more I work, the more I feel sorry for those around me. A girl from a well-off family in high school, majoring in fine arts at a regular undergraduate university. Her family is doing everything they can to send her abroad for a master's degree in water resources, trying to find ways to immigrate, and during holidays, they find her a part-time job that pays 800 a day. She’s also good-looking, practically born in Rome. She has complained to me countless times: she knows a guy from the same school who has a girlfriend, and he keeps secretly asking her out every few days. He restricts her interactions with other men, and what's even more frightening is that yesterday, he was drinking with a group of friends, got drunk, and was video calling her to show off to his friends. That guy’s girlfriend also knows her and they get along well. I told her she’s been complaining to me for a year—why doesn’t she cut ties with him? She hesitated and said, “In case he’s useful to me in the future…” You come from a wealthy family that supports you without expecting anything in return, and you call that pragmatic. Then you tell me that a guy with an ordinary degree, who treats you like an object and isn’t even related to you, might be useful to you, and you keep maintaining this harmful relationship? Are you so insecure about your own abilities that you think you’ll need him to rescue you someday? If his girlfriend found out, what would she think of you? She didn’t answer anymore, and I didn’t plan to persuade her either. All I can say is, maybe she’s also enjoying the feeling that she can attract others to violate morality. But violating morality isn’t a sign of charm; it only shows that the person’s moral standards are low. Raising such a family with such narrow horizons… it’s truly baffling.