This is a healing novel about suffocation and breathing, shackles and keys.
23-Year-old Lin Wan is trapped in a double cage:
A family that favors boys over girls - her value is just a "report card" to be cashed;
The other is a "cramming" education system - she has studied for 23 years, but has never experienced the warmth of knowledge itself.
When she was forced to take the postgraduate entrance examination to repay her "parenting debt", her spirit was almost broken:
"I had to take the test, but I really didn't like studying."
"I'm not a nice person and I don't even want to go on."
Until a chance encounter, she began to try a "small and silent resistance"——
Steal fifteen minutes every day and do something absolutely useless but makes your heart beat.
Look at the clouds. Paint the stove. Write a poem.
On the title page of the nursing textbook, I wrote in pencil: "Knowledge should be wings, not shackles."
On the snowy night when she failed the postgraduate entrance examination, she thought the world would collapse.
But I didn't expect——
The door that had never been locked was finally pushed open by herself...
Intention: ① A person's value should not be determined by the functions he or she provides (achievements, income, pension). ②Real breakthrough often begins with loyalty to one's tiny self. ③Allowing yourself not to be "kind", not "positive", not "grateful" is the beginning of self-acceptance.