"Don't despise your mother for being dirty... getting yourself dirty means having money to spend. Isn't that great? How many people... for the sake of making money in a dignified manner, lose their dignity and fail to earn money."
"We are poor people; we are born to be the playthings of the rich."
From a young age, Xiaoxing often heard such words.
It seemed like her mother was educating her, yet it also felt like her mother was talking to herself, comforting herself.
Men always came into their home. Some of them left hastily after certain matters were over.
Some men would say, "You are so beautiful, why don't you do a respectable job?"
When men sighed like this, her mother would weave various stories, describing how tragic her own past was.
In the early years, she had been an actress under Tokei Dohbeni, specifically shooting those abusive films. Her stage name was Akiyama Rika.
