Her father hated her to the extreme.
Since she was born, no matter how good her grades were, she was always a pain to her father. Because she was a girl, not a boy, every time her academic award certificate was a slap in her father's face. What can a daughter do with such ability? It would be better if a son was so strong.
The Xie family is not just patriarchal, men are masters and women are slaves. Xie Wanying remembers very well that every year during the Spring Festival, when the whole family had a big meal, the daughters-in-law and daughters of the Xie family were not allowed to eat at the main table, but had to eat in the kitchen. Only the men, sons and grandsons could eat, drink and have fun at the table.
She wanted to be a doctor, a surgeon, a job only men can do, in order to stand up for herself, her mother, all the women in the Xie family, and all the despised women in this place.
Whatever you men can do, I, a girl, can do as well.
Xie Wanying looked into her father's eyes with a stern gaze.
Xie Changrong couldn't help swallowing saliva in his throat: "How dare you glare at your father!"
Xie Wanying turned around without saying anything.
Seeing this, Hsieh Chang-rong raised his hand.
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"Don't hit her, why are you hitting her!" Sun Rongfang grabbed his arm.
"You raised this child, this is a rebellious child. She will glare at her father now."
"She didn't—"
"Why not? I've made it clear to you and your daughter. If she can't get into college this time, get married!"
"What do you mean she can't get into university? Yingying has always had good grades." Sun Rongfang was so anxious that she jumped up and down, her voice hoarse and she was about to cry.
Seeing his wife about to cry, Xie Changrong suddenly became happy, feeling that he had turned the tables: "I know she will never pass the exam. You will cry loudly then. And then you must listen to me and my dad and get married."
After saying this, Xie Changrong raised his head and walked out the door triumphantly.
Sun Rongfang whimpered and sat on the chair, rubbing her eyes.
Taking out the Sunkist orange, Xie Wanying cut it and gave it to her mother to eat: "Mom, let's eat it ourselves. Don't give it to others. Don't pay attention to what they say."
Sun Rongfang was in no mood to eat. She just knew that everyone said her daughter would not pass the exam.
"Mom, take a bite. You have to believe me. If Dad doesn't give me money to go to school, it doesn't matter. I can work to earn my own tuition." Xie Wanying squatted down in front of her mother and put the orange to her mother's mouth.
Xie Wanying stuffed an orange into her mother's mouth.
She knew that her mother had a very difficult life, so she had to change her own and her mother's fate and change her mother's status in the family.
After seeing her daughter's eyes, Sun Rongfang couldn't recover for a long time.
The next few days before the college entrance examination seemed calm at home, but everyone knew that this was just the prelude to the storm.
The night before the exam, Xie Wanying was flipping through a medical surgery book that she kept at home with a flashlight.
The book cover was tattered and had been eaten by insects. This was brought back by her mother when she was sent to the countryside as an educated youth. Sun Rongfang was once sent to the village health center to help as a health worker. She also thought about studying medicine, but later she met her father and her dream was gone.
She decided to go to the capital to study medicine with this book.
When she put the book under her pillow to sleep, she had a dream. In the dream, the knowledge in the book became a reality, a clear surgical scene appeared in front of her eyes, and the scalpel in her hand moved by itself.
When I sat up from bed in the morning, last night's dream was still clear to me.
Was this - was her rebirth giving her some new skill? Xie Wanying looked at her hands and fell into deep thought.
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