The Z780 virus has reduced the survival rate of female infants to around 10 percent. In the future, the gender ratio is extremely skewed, and newborn girls are handed over to the state to be raised and educated.
Before turning eighteen, girls must strive to excel in their daily conduct and academic exams. Otherwise, they will be among the third who are eliminated and sent to the Third District to work in the service sector.
Girls who pass the graduation exam are granted the right to freely choose an excellent spouse from a pool of candidates. From then on, they can live a life of comfort and luxury.
Derrick keeps a diary hidden under his bed. Its owner is He Huanyi, a girl who earned an outstanding score on the final test. Thanks to her excellent performance, she got to choose a husband whose qualities were ideal in every respect.
As one of those who benefited, she was once grateful for and supportive of a system that erased the differences in women's backgrounds and let them compete fairly from the same starting line.
But after escaping close surveillance and gaining an enviable marriage, what she saw and heard gradually led her to question more.
Why are women born to obey their husbands?
Is our only value to bear children, serve our husbands, and raise our families?
Is this truly fair?
Should we be canaries, or fighters?
[Written in diary format, with a serious tone.]
[The husband is not her love interest; they are married in name only.]
[The heroine grows over time. Some of her ideas early on may be infuriating, but she later awakens to women's rights.]
[An extremely short story.]
Finally, I'd like to recommend my other story, The Modern Crown Princess's Guide to Evolution.
A quiet, easygoing, outwardly gentle but inwardly resilient, handsome-face-loving future master restorer of cultural relics x a stunning, highly flirtatious crown prince who maintains a perfect image with a mask-like smile.
Theme: True equality means everyone is equal, not exploiting one gender to serve another. It also means not using so-called "fairness" to brainwash the exploited, teaching them to willingly support a system that claims to be fair.
The advantage of the diary style is probably that it makes it easier for readers to take on the role of themselves. I couldn't help but curse, the extreme patriarchal society is so unfair! It would be great if the heroine rebelled in the end. Really? A rebellious heroine hahahahahahaha.
The diary novel is very interesting. The author writes the heroine's thoughts very delicately. Whether it is indifference and selfishness or unrequited love, it is very attractive. The diary is also cleverly interspersed with some small life events, making both He Huanyi and He Qing's images fuller.
This He Qing is a true gender equality activist. In the context of the era constructed by the author, I can only say "admire, admire". Btw, it's a good thing that the little angels in Jinjiang are all girls. If only you could be trolled to death by male punchers on Weibo.
I just suddenly understood why Huanyi was like this For her, being docile and obedient is a matter of course, because this is what she has been taught since she was a child, and everyone around her is instilling this idea in her. It can only be said that I am extremely frightened when I think about it carefully.
Such an idea is simply terrifying. This shows how important education is to a person.
I like it very much. Keep up the good work, the author.
This article is so beautiful ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I've read it twice, and I picked it up and read it again today.
Why don't you put a dividing line after the diary ends? It's so uncomfortable to watch.
The writing styles of the two articles are not very similar. I personally prefer your short stories. The setting of the sweet story is quite interesting, and the writing style is also very delicate, but I got over it after reading it for a while (to be honest, the first few chapters were a bit discouraging). I read this article from beginning to end. The writing style has matured a lot. It made me quite depressed. The ending is too realistic. This is how real human nature is. The heroine is really not likeable, but she is very real. The career-minded He Qing was well portrayed and could have been the male protagonist, but there was no CP at all.