What Gives You the Right?

Why Me? is an emotional novel about the realities of marriage and childbirth in modern life. The story begins with a wait outside the delivery room, laying bare the real cost behind the fairy tale of love.

Lin Wan and Chen Mo were the golden couple on campus, the picture-perfect match. But after their daughter was born, cracks began to show in their seemingly perfect marriage. During an argument, Chen Mo blurted out, “Why should I have to indulge you?” His words unleashed the emotions Lin Wan had been suppressing for so long: the 280 agonizing days of pregnancy, the pain of labor as her cervix dilated to ten centimeters, the irreversible damage to her body, the endless exhaustion of raising a child, the tradition of giving the child its father's surname, and the gradual loss of her sense of self-worth.

This is no simple love story, but a profound conversation about the cost of childbirth, gender roles, and the nature of marriage. With delicate prose, the novel portrays a woman's physical suffering and loss of identity as she becomes a mother, as well as a man's difficult journey from indifference to awakening.

When love is tested by the realities of having children, and romantic promises collide with the daily grind of caring for a family, how can a couple rebuild understanding and respect amid the ruins of childbirth? Why Me? offers no easy answers. It simply lays bare the struggle: the contributions taken for granted, the emotional debts left unacknowledged, and how two ordinary people learn to truly see one another amid the wreckage.

This is a mirror reflecting the unspoken sacrifices and debts in every relationship. It is also a question: between “Why should I?” and “Why me?”, where can love find balance and truth?