On National Day, I rented a hot-air balloon and waited up in the sky for five hours, hoping to celebrate my associate professor wife's birthday. I called Song Yimei 999 times, but she never responded. My body was nearly freezing when I was about to make the 1,000th call. The next second, a post popped up on my social media feed: Guan Chaohai, the male college student Song Yimei sponsored, had shared a photo. I was so furious I laughed, then liked and commented on it without a second thought. Group chats exploded in an instant, everyone gossiping about how I was going to take on this little boy toy. But at the center of all the drama, I simply pressed the call button. “Professor Wang, I'll take the overseas teaching position you mentioned.” As for Song Yimei, I'm done with her. A woman's not worth sacrificing my future for!
