
Shackles of the 21st Century
by Guo Xiaobei
About This Novel
Born in 2004 in a family that favored sons over daughters, she was dependent on her mother who was also not valued. She listened to her grandfather slandering her mother since she was a child but chose to stay silent. It was not until she was awakened by the atmosphere of freedom and equality in college that she began to learn to refute the feudal ideas at home - her grandfather said that only women could wash the dishes, and her father stopped her from going out with ridiculous reasons. The whole family always compared her and her sister with others, but never thought about their own problems. In this family where "tolerance" is regarded as a woman's duty and the younger generation is suppressed by moral kidnapping, she gradually sees clearly the shackles of her thoughts and is determined to break free with her younger sister and not repeat her mother's mistake of "forbearance becoming an island". This is the story of a girl's awakening and struggle in a suffocating family environment in the collision of old and new ideas.
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