Shen Zhaoning is a partner at a Shanghai law firm, specializing in the protection of women's rights. I have taken on countless domestic violence, divorce, and custody cases, and I have seen too many women who were bullied, mustered up their courage, and then chose to withdraw the case at the last minute. She thought that laws and evidence were weapons. Until that rainy night, a car accident threw her into Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty eight hundred years ago.
When she woke up, she was lying on a wooden bed in a humble house, wearing old coarse clothes. The original owner of this body was also named Shen Zhaoning. His father, Shen Huaishan, was originally a scribe in Lin'an Prefecture. He offended the powerful by writing petitions for the poor, and died in depression after being dismissed, leaving only the words "unwilling". The mother cried out her tears, and the neighbors sighed and shook their heads. The original owner himself threw himself into the river.
She took possession of her body. You have to bear her debt.
In this era when "women are not allowed to go to court", Shen Zhaoning found that there were more women complaining about injustice than she had ever seen in the law firm - those whose dowries were forfeited without refund, those whose children were pawned but not returned, those who were widowed and whose property was taken away by their clans. Their grievances were not complicated, but no one wrote a piece of paper for them that could be handed into the government office.
Shen Zhaoning picked up his pen. She used a bald-tip brush left behind by the original owner's father, and she wrote the logic that she had carved into her bones after five years of fighting in modern times. When she submitted the petition on behalf of the first woman, she just wanted to pay off the unfinished business for the original owner's father. Later, more and more people came to see her. Later, she stood outside the Yamen of Lin'an Mansion, looking up at the door that she was not qualified to push open.
Someone asked her: You are a woman, what are you fighting for?
She said: It's not a fight. It was their voices that were too soft. I just shouted it out for them.
Purpose: Through the story of the heroine fighting for the rights of disadvantaged women in ancient times, the significance of exploring the law is not to punish, but to give a voice to every suppressed voice.
