"So what if I got fifth on the written exam? I rose through the cracks, working my way up from a government clerk to a senior secretary. The day my ex-girlfriend begged me to get back together, I was accompanying my boss to research her divorce case..."
"My girlfriend went ashore to end our relationship, and I was accepted into the system to face the world. Township petitions, bosses' games, undercurrents... This system is a hundred times more cruel than the civil service exam."