"What are the criteria for a good daughter?"
"Be obedient? Excellent? Marry well? Or - finally learn to live for yourself?"
Li Jingshu's life was cut in half from the age of seventeen.
In the first half of her life, she was "someone else's child."
Struggling in the sea of questions in key high schools, acting as a meek top student under the expectations of her mother, and locking her dreams in the notebook under the mattress. Until one hundred days before the college entrance examination, her secret collection of poems was torn apart by her mother in public, and her first love was torn apart by death. At that moment she understood: her body and soul never belonged to her.
In the second half of her life, she became an "unqualified woman"
At the age of twenty-six, she refused the prenuptial agreement from her blind date and was scolded as an "elderly leftover who doesn't know what to do";
On her thirtieth birthday, the words "premature ovarian failure" on the medical examination sheet were like an ultimatum - either get married immediately and have children, or lose the qualification to "become a complete woman" forever.
When her mother trembled and wrote "I'm sorry" after a stroke, when the recording of sexual harassment in the workplace caused a storm on the Internet, when Song Ci pushed the egg freezing consent form in front of her and said, "Don't give up yourself for me"...
Purpose: To write about a suppressed life