This is the story of a girl who grew up in an extremely patriarchal family and how she took back her life step by step. It's not a cool article, there's no golden finger, it's just a path taken step by step. Written to everyone in this world.
In 1973, Gong Xu was born in a family that favored sons over daughters in rural Jiaodong. She was the second daughter in the family. When she was five years old, her father casually taught her how to write the character "" - "One stroke and one stroke, the same length, so that you can stand firm." She remembered it. When she was ten years old, she took the two yuan and fifty cents given by her father and walked ten miles alone to register at the primary school in the town.
In the next fifty years, she walked from the Jiaohe River to Daocheng/Jincheng/Beijing/Vienna, growing from the second daughter of a rural doctor's family to a female entrepreneur in her own right. She has seen the wind along the Rhine River and the stormy nights. She studied, ran a business, started a family, raised a daughter, and also learned to say no through repeated requests.
