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people’s jokes. They would amuse themselves by

teasing me. They looked down upon me. They

discriminated against me. Life was very hard. I was

depressed. To extricate myself from my difficult

position, I needed to get married as soon as possible.

But finding a girl to marry was by no means easy for

me. Monkey King had made a very good analysis of

me. He understood me very well. He said I had five

unfavorable factors when it came to marriage.

Firstly, I had a romantic history. Actually, it was

not romantic. It was indecent. I had an indecent

history. When I was a university student, I had done

it with a girl at my alma mater. It was illegal. I had

offended school discipline and had been punished.

That was a stain on my character and reputation. I

could never get rid of it. It was recorded in my file. It

would forever stay with me. I had been considered to

be a demoralised man. Some bold and rude people

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