I’m Going to College: I Break the Chains and Escape the Cruel Den

【This isn't fiction. These are countless girls waiting for daylight. Any one of them could have been one of us!】 At six, her own mother shoved her head into a bucket of urine. At thirteen, she was chained up in a pigpen. At seventeen, she cut through the chain and fled into the mountains. This isn't a horror movie. It's Lin Xiaoman's everyday life. In a mountain village where sons matter more than daughters, her father drinks, her mother is deranged, her little brother is treated like royalty, and she's treated like livestock. To save money for her brother's tuition, they forced her to quit school. But she secretly hid her textbooks and studied by candlelight in the pigpen, because she knew that the college entrance exam was her only legal way out. On her escape, her adoptive father chased her for hundreds of miles, declaring, “Even if I die, I'll die at home.” The villagers jointly reported her, saying she'd “brought shame on the whole village.” When she found work, her boss confiscated her ID, intending to sell her to an old bachelor... But this penniless girl fought her way through seventeen years to achieve the most brutal reversal imaginable: from a “useless daughter” chained in a pigpen to a student admitted to a top university. She's no feel-good power fantasy heroine. Every step she takes is paved with her own blood. This is what a true “female lead” looks like: no golden finger, just a heart that refuses to kneel. No benefactors to help her, only countless moments of gritting her teeth in the dark. 【On day 2,379 of her escape, her acceptance letter arrives, and the entire internet breaks down in tears】 …