On the morning after his eighteenth birthday, Meng Liuguang, a high school senior, woke up to find himself lying in a strange woman's bed.
When an educated modern man transmigrates into an ancient matriarchal world, he struggles, resists, grows numb, and submits. Over the course of his life, he is a prisoner, a concubine, a courtesan, a wife, a slave, a consort, and an empress. He experiences the oppression and suffering women have endured for thousands of years, and finally comes to a profound realization.
Feng Shiliu: "Equal rights for men and women? You believe that kind of nonsense?"
Meng Liuguang: "You don't believe it? But my hometown is a place where men and women are equal."
Feng Shiliu: "Then answer me this: in your hometown, are there more men or more women?"
Meng Liuguang: "A few more men."
Feng Shiliu: "How strange. Women naturally live longer than men. If no one interfered, then by all reason there should be more women overall. Why, then, are there more men in your supposedly equal society? Let me ask you something else. You keep saying that men and women in your hometown have equal access to education and jobs. But among the leaders in all walks of life, are there more men or more women?"
Meng Liuguang: "More... men."
Feng Shiliu: "And among the emperors and rulers throughout history, and the officials filling the court, are there more men or more women?"
Meng Liuguang: "It seems like mostly men."
Feng Shiliu: "And among newborns each year, how many take their mother's surname? How many take their father's?"
Meng Liuguang: "Almost... all of them take their father's surname."
Feng Shiliu: "Oh, so that's what equality between men and women looks like."
Theme: Put men in women's shoes, and they're really no different from women.
A very good article. There are a few particularly touching points. The first one is: the male protagonist in the article has really been suffering since he traveled through time. In the end, only one Suiyue truly loved him and was willing to sacrifice for him. The other women, no matter who they were, just pushed him from one abyss into another. Maybe this reflects that men are unreliable in real life, but sometimes the friendship between girls is more reliable? The second point is that many people in the comments are saying not to feel sorry for the male protagonist. If you read the female protagonist, why do you still feel sorry for the man? In fact, I want to say, which of the treatments Meng Liuguang received in this article is not what women are experiencing in real life? I feel sorry for the male protagonist just because I empathize with him and feel sorry for what he has experienced. Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, it is wrong to be treated like this. What hurts is the person who encounters this kind of experience. There is no distinction between men and women. The third one is that I feel that this article is not finished in a sense. Where did Meng Liuguang go after he jumped off the stage? Did he return to modern times or did he really end his life? What is the future of the female Yin Kingdom? What about the subsequent development of Feng Shiliu and Wei Zijun? I hope the author can briefly describe these in the extra chapter, even briefly, to truly bring this article to an end and bring it to a close. The fourth is that the author said that the purpose of this article is: "Put a man in the position of a woman, and he becomes a woman." I agree with this point of view. Men are even more observant than women, and are more likely to recognize reality and accept being humble. Perhaps this is their nature. But through this article, I also discovered another interesting point, that is: "When a woman sits in a man's position, she also becomes a man." For example, of all the female characters in this article, the most classic ones are Feng Shiliu, Wei Zijun and Wu Er. Feng Shiliu once dreamed of building a country where everyone is equal, but after knowing the truth, he threw the dream away and chose to oppress men to the extreme; Wei Zijun pushed his men into the abyss time and time again and even forced him to death for the sake of official career; Wu Er has a strong womanism, nostalgic for his first love, taking it as seriously as anything, while accepting male favors in one house after another... If these behaviors are changed, isn't it what men did to women in ancient times? So it is this system that we need to resist, not just men. This is a conflict between classes, a conflict between beneficiaries and the oppressed, not just a conflict between men and women. It's just that in real life, most men are the defenders of this system. When women sit in men's seats and become the beneficiaries of a system, who can guarantee that women will not choose to continue to protect their own interests like men in reality? None of the women in the Onyin Kingdom helped men to overturn the system of female superiority and male inferiority that benefited them (women). I guess men in real life think the same way. People are selfish. As long as they benefit from it and are not the oppressed party, what does equality and inequality have to do with them? The last point is that from the beginning to the end of this article, I don't feel that Meng Liuguang has been domesticated into a so-called "woman". He just has no way to resist and can only accept it. His spirit and his soul were never completely tamed. Of course, although he suffered all this, his experiences over the past ten years still did not make him realize that "modern society is unequal to men and women", which is also a bit ironic. This can be compared with what I said in the previous paragraphs. Humans are really magical creatures. As long as they are the one who benefits, they will not understand the oppression suffered by other groups, nor will they have the awareness to speak out for this group. I feel that this article is ironic. I don't know if it's just me or others who feel this. In short, this is the best article I have read recently. Thumbs up to the author!
After much deliberation, I wrote a long review and sent it to the author and some sisters in the comment area. What attracted me most about this article was the author's intention, and then the growth stages of several male protagonists. If I had known, I would be really curious about how a modern man who has traveled through time and is a heroine can still be the queen after experiencing all the hardships. As for the male protagonist, I really hated it at first. A high school student who enjoys the benefits of a patriarchal society, who thinks he is good to his sister actually reveals his deep-rooted "misogyny". (As a digression, I have to say that misogyny is the norm in today's society. Even we, as women, are misogynistic unknowingly - if you curse someone, use "C you" "Mom" or insulting words similar to "mom". If you are trying to identify green tea and brush aside, then you are misogynistic. After all, male compatriots never identify male attributes. Thinking of this, they are really united.) But later on, I gradually sympathized with and even fell in love with the male protagonist. He refused to accept that servants were inherently inferior, and worked hard for Sui Yue. When I saw Wu Er die and wanted to take revenge, I realized that he was actually a good boy, and the author gave him a way to eliminate the pain of pregnancy and childbirth during menstruation. The setting allows him to endure almost all the pains suffered by feudal women. In the opening scene of the iron chain, surrounding dignitaries and barking like a dog, he really stepped on his dignity in order to survive. If it were me, I might have committed suicide before I even arrived at Wu Er's mansion. This is what I admire about him very much. It's really amazing that he still doesn't go crazy after encountering disasters one after another after falling from the clouds to the bottom. Regarding the female characters in the article, I only have a favorable impression of Feng Shiliu and the Prairie Princess. This favorable impression is based on their great ambitions. In view of Shiliu's idea of "everyone is equal and the world is unified", I praise her as a pioneer and a wise king. The Prairie Princess endures humiliation and bears heavy burdens to serve the country and the people. I hope she can become the Queen of the Prairie in the future. Regarding the author's intention, "When a man is placed in the position of a woman, he becomes a woman." - This is of great social significance. You must know that apart from the different body structures caused by chromosomes, men and women are only unequal in the rights granted by society. Because the strength is naturally smaller than men, women are naturally weak. From my point of view, if the strength of men and women were equal, there would probably be no need for a feminist movement. They would have been equal eight hundred years ago (power is fists, and fists are the capital of speech) Finally, I want to say that in fact, when I saw a comment, some sisters said that if you feel sorry for the male protagonist, you love him. I really don't agree. I completely disagree with this sentence. It is obvious that the male protagonist lives like a real woman, but just because he can't have children, do I love him? True love for men is misogyny and servility. If you sympathize with a woman who respects men and also love men, then the world will be really ridiculous. I like to see women becoming self-reliant and freeing themselves from the shackles of gender to live a prosperous life. I also want to see women who are stuck in the quagmire and respect men climb out of the abyss. There is no conflict at all.
Regarding this article, I am more focused on expressing my thoughts rather than telling the story, so when the protagonist from the first perspective dies, there is nothing behind it. There is no need to explain the endings of other characters, because it doesn't really matter what the endings of those supporting characters are (this article only). So I personally feel that this article is more of a thought book than a novel. Readers only need to remember the thoughts, not the stories. After all, the stories in the book are happening in life every moment, in you and me.
I have read this novel twice. It is really unworldly and very beautiful, especially the exhausting life after getting married, the quarreling of the wife, the death of the child, the murder and arson for Zhen Lian, being sent to a prison car, the attitude of the Zhen family, the powerlessness of Wei Zijun, etc. I will listen to the song Destiny in Lanling King and watch it together. It is very sad and has a poignant feeling, and the feeling of sorrow is greater than the death of the heart.
This ending... Is hard to comment on. I can only say that the male protagonist is really disgusting, and he will still be so disgusting even after his death.
In other words, when you can only rely on others, and the person you rely on is a reliable person, your life will be good. It's a nightmare when you can only rely on someone else, and the person you're relying on is a fool. In this world, the male protagonist can only be forced to rely on others, work hard to defeat himself all the way, and work hard until the end, relying on a woman who seems to be the most capable, forward-thinking, and morally up-to-date woman in the country. Then a few years later, she discovered that her humanity was still corrupted and changed by power, and she still lost her true heart in power. Therefore, I have lost interest in other people in this world and even this low-life world.
Wow, the male protagonist is so cool. Sure enough, jade becomes more beautiful after going through hardships, but these hardships are really too hard to swallow.
In the end, only Shuiyue is the true love
There is no one of the most beautiful novels about women that I have seen so far. We are also people in the 21st century. Some people are fighting, waking up, and freeing themselves from pain, while some people are still pretending to sleep. No matter how beautiful the golden cage is, it cannot change the fact that it is a cage. In 2023, I hope there will be less spoiled wives and more sober and happy sisters. Come on
When will the new article be published?