In the bitter winter of 1960, at the Liu family home on the loess plateau, I was born while my mother suffered a hemorrhage.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on Liu Fanchang, the eldest grandson. No one cared for me, a newborn girl.
Grandfather favored my smooth-talking second uncle, Liu Daqing. My father was idle and easily swayed, often using the family's money to help Liu Daqing.
As a child, I kept telling myself my family loved me, until my older brother married and had a child. All the family's savings, homestead land, and preferential treatment went to Liu Fanchang's family.
I worked hard, scrimped and saved, and gave what I had to support the family, only to hear, “Girls get married sooner or later. They're outsiders anyway.”
Their favoritism, exploitation, and emotional blackmail wore away every bit of warmth in my heart.
Once I finally saw this family for what it was, a family that valued only sons and treated daughters as less than human, I put away all my softness, severed my blood ties with my own hands, and built a life that belonged only to me. The protagonist may appear relatively late; the early chapters mainly focus on the heroine's family.
Very interesting. The storyline is very good.