Equality Is Extraordinary

In the early 1980s, in a northern village, an ordinary couple had two completely different children. The elder sister Zhao Lan grew up in the cracks of patriarchal preference, eating the roughest food, doing the most tiring work, and enduring the most silent grievances; the younger brother Zhao Mingzhu was held in the palm of the hand, growing up in a honeypot and favoritism, and had a smooth journey. Destiny gave them very different starting points, but it did not determine the end of their lives. Zhao Lan maintains her kindness in suffering and catches the glimmer of light in indifference; Zhao Mingzhu loses her way in good times and stumbles in society. This book tells a story about equality, suffering, growth and redemption: We cannot choose where we are born, but we can choose how we live; We are born ordinary, but we can live with equality and dignity. Being born equal is the foundation of the soul; An ordinary death is the way back in life.