The Day I Left My Family Behind, I Chose Myself

Qiao Feng knew from childhood that being beautiful and poor was a crime in other people's eyes.

Bullied at school and treated by her family as a "dowry fund" for her younger brother, she made a choice at eighteen: leave and never come back. From the assembly line at a Shenzhen factory to becoming a cross-border e-commerce queen, it took her ten years. Every choice at every crossroads proved that her life needed no one's approval.

Her family favored boys over girls. Her mother was weak, her father domineering, and her younger brother was the family's only "hope." At school, Zhou Meilin led the others in ostracizing her, while the teachers turned a blind eye. At the factory, her supervisor tried to take advantage of her. On her entrepreneurial journey, her competitors mocked her as a "pretty face." But Qiao Feng never knelt. She simply closed her eyes for three seconds, then opened them and made her choice.

Everyone who had bullied her eventually had to bow their heads before her. And it all began on that rainy night, when she chose herself.