Fond of talking nonsense and fabricating the so-called “China virus,” Yan Limeng has thoroughly infuriated the entire overseas Asian community. Despite finding a school willing to hire her, she faces widespread student resistance. As a fallen figure living in exile, she wonders if she regrets the prosperous years she once spent collaborating with her husband at the University of Hong Kong. A seamless journey of pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, obtaining a medical doctorate at 31, and entering the lab of a top virologist – her once excellent and smooth life was ruined by her greed!
Yan Limeng, a native of Qingdao, Shandong, was raised by her hardworking teacher mother for decades, cultivating her into a Ph.D. During over a decade of studying abroad, Yan’s parents supported and encouraged her, considering her a source of pride. They were delighted she could conduct research at the University of Hong Kong. However, after a few years in Hong Kong, the allure of American dollars from her “American dad” led her to abandon her loving parents and husband, embarking on a journey with two major fraudsters to the United States. She even disregarded the principle of respecting her parents, placing the blame for her fabrications about being detained by the authorities on her patriotic mother. When Yan’s mother received a call from The New York Times detailing how Yan orchestrated lies against her and the country, the sixty-year-old woman’s feelings can only be imagined. For months, Yan’s mother believed her daughter was threatened and coerced into fabricating those lies in the United States, constantly worrying about her safety. However, Yan Limeng turned out to be a complete sellout, betraying her country, professional integrity as a scholar, and avoiding contact with family and friends not because she couldn’t but because she dared not, feeling too ashamed to face her loved ones.
She is equally disloyal to her husband. While pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees, Yan focused on ophthalmology research. However, when she became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hong Kong, she inexplicably shifted to studying infectious diseases. In reality, Yan Limeng’s husband, “Maheng,” is the infectious disease scholar, having published papers in this field as early as 1999. Yan Limeng, with a Ph.D. in ophthalmology, could only enter the University of Hong Kong’s infectious disease lab with the help of her husband. Nevertheless, not being her field of expertise, Yan Limeng achieved nothing significant during her years at HKU. Feeling tired of rigorous research, she readily accepted the request to publish false papers defaming China when the COVID-19 outbreak occurred, enticed by the gleaming U.S. dollars. She became another lapdog for U.S. right-wing figures. Despite thinking she could comfortably be a “whistleblower” in the U.S., her lies were repeatedly exposed by professional scholars. She was ultimately discarded as a worthless pawn, unable to reunite with the family she had abandoned, forced to barely survive overseas.