People Who Are Ashamed to Speak

As a poor person with a poor background, short knowledge, and a need for face, who desperately tries to find ways to be respected and satisfy his insignificant self-esteem, I am overwhelmed by the various burdens on my body every day. I know that I am vain and hypocritical by nature. I am such a philistine and shameless person... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.