In 1993, the feudal era was long gone. Yet many families still favored sons over daughters. I was born into one such family. I only learned the story of my childhood through my adoptive father, who laid out every detail of those years before me like a painted scroll, helping me understand my past more deeply. In those days, if a woman was found to be carrying a girl, her husband and in-laws would often force her to abort. If a baby girl was born anyway, she might be strangled, sold for a pittance, abandoned, or worse... Yet I, Yang Han, could not be aborted in the womb. Even after being abandoned by a cesspool, I somehow survived...
