Suspension instructions
Let me officially tell everyone: this article has been stopped and has been completely revised. It is completely impossible to continue writing at this stage.
In the context of feudal patriarchy, the heroine's opponent can only be a woman who, like her, has been stepped on by this society and has no way out. The women in the harem are an inevitable existence for her, but in order to push forward the plot, I personally nailed one poor woman after another to the villain pillar, poured dirty water on them, created scandals, and forcibly molded them into enemies. Empress Cao, Gao Taotao, Zhang Guifei... I wrote them all as narrow-minded, vicious women who only compete for favor.
My original intention was to write about the heroine breaking through and being an umbrella for women of that era, but now I see clearly: I am not writing about awakening at all, I am discrediting all women who are struggling to survive. I described their involuntary actions as love brains, and simplified their struggle for family and survival into the stupidity of revolving around men. I was meaner and arrogant than anyone else.
My heroine is not sober at all. She is standing on the moral high ground and looking down at the people in the quagmire. She is so fake that it is dazzling. I don't want Concubine Zhang to die, and I don't want to make up a bad drama about her snatching her son and dying tragically—does she really want to? She was simply driven to a dead end by the times.
As I write this, I just feel sick: I have become an accomplice of male power. I write about women from a man's perspective, use patriarchal logic to fight against women, and use the most despicable way to use women's pain as a stepping stone to the plot. I wanted to write about the heroine breaking the shackles, but what happened? Instead of smashing the wall, I used the bones of other women to build it thicker and stronger.
I was like driving a car on a rampage. If I wanted to move forward, I had to run over every female body. This is not creation, this is violence, which completely deviates from all the original intentions of my writing.
I am not capable enough and my writing power is not strong enough. I stopped writing and reconstructed until I could truly respect every woman I wrote, instead of treating them as sacrifices. It will not be updated until it is corrected.
Mission: I wish all girls to be confident and ambitious
