In 1981, a pair of twins were born in a county hospital in southern Sichuan.
Her sister weighs eight pounds, while she weighs five and a half pounds, half an hour later than her sister. She was once criticized for being "fearful that she won't be able to feed herself."
When she was four years old, her elder sister lied to her in order to compete for snacks: "You were picked up by our family in the garbage dump at the back door of the hospital, and your head is full of flies."
She cried and had low self-esteem for many years.
She ran all the way from a leaky, quasi-dangerous house in a rural town to a cubicle in an office building in Chengdu. She knew that a girl without an umbrella couldn't lie flat. She has proven and lived her life to be "viable" in the eyes of others.
Many years later, she took her daughter back to that small town and told the child stories about her mother's childhood.
