"You have a Ph.D.?" Shen Yibin's eyes went wide. He looked Dong up and down, left and right. Dong had dark skin and a muscular build that strained the fabric of his clothes. He didn't look anything like a highly-educated professional with a doctorate! He looked more like a bricklayer.
"I do. What, I don't look the part?" Dong watched Shen Yibin with a half-smile. "Should I go dig out my doctoral diploma and show it to you?"
"No need." 'Man, they say a biology degree will ruin your life, and it looks like zoology is just as tragic,' Shen Yibin thought. 'Given Dong's age, Ph.D.s must have been a rare breed when he graduated, right? Logically, shouldn't he have become a leading academic or a partner at some company? Instead, he ended up in a poor, backwater place like the Yunzhong City Zoo. How depressing. Right, if I ever have kids, I'm definitely not letting them study zoology.'
