Xu Shenghua lost her job. More precisely, Xu Shenghua graduated.
From starting primary school at age six to earning her doctorate in philosophy at thirty-two, Xu Shenghua had spent a full twenty-six years studying!
Yet this distinguished woman with a doctorate, this scholar with knowledge enough to fill five carts, could only return to her rural hometown after graduation and wait to inherit her family's failing business, worth hundreds of millions. She would also have to wait to be "married off" to the live-in son-in-law her parents had chosen for her!
Good heavens! What a ridiculous joke! What era are we living in? How could something so horrifying and feudal still happen?
Xu Shenghua refused to accept it. She would change her name and identity, run far away, and get herself that fresh young hunk who looked so easy to handle!
Theme: A tribute to Flannery O'Connor
