Silent Cocoon

The title of the book is "The Silent Cocoon". "Cocoon" is a complex metaphor. For the women in the book, it is both a protective color and a prison. In order to protect ourselves, we often wrap ourselves up in layers and weave a safe world with silk threads of silence. In this world, pain is walled off, secrets hidden, and trauma covered up. The price of cocooning, however, is suffocation. When silence becomes a family habit, and when trauma becomes an inherited gene, this cocoon becomes a shackles passed down from generation to generation. What I want to write in this book is the story of three generations of women, a story about "seeing" and "being seen", "control" and "breaking away from control". In the first generation, we can see the hardship and forbearance of survival. They are often speechless, swallowing their suffering, turning it into a stone of silence and a habit of control. When it comes to the second generation, such as Yutong's mother Shan Yaqin, they try to break free, but often struggle and get lost in the old gravitational field, and even become the transmitters of trauma. They love their children, but they hurt them; they long for freedom, but they weave new cocoons with their own hands. And in the third generation, Yutong's generation, we have more resources and awareness, and we begin to try to ask: Why do I have such a dream? Why do I feel inexplicable fear? Maybe you have had similar dreams, maybe you have been confused by the control of your family, maybe you have fallen in love with your mother and killed each other. I want to tell you that your feelings are real and your pain deserves to be respected. We don't have to carry these heavy cocoons alone. Cynthia early 2026