Even many times, women themselves believe that the shackles pressing down on them are correct, and then use these shackles as a standard to oppress and exploit other women.
Forcing an educated woman to live in such a backward and barren village is practically the same as taking her life.
The only reason she is still alive is because of a deep longing for freedom.
Even after such experiences, Zhuang Yuanshuang constantly told herself that she would definitely have another chance to leave.
Initially, she refused to eat or drink, using fasting as a form of resistance, but those people were completely unmoved, even calling other women who had been bought back to brainwash her.
It was hard to see any trace of their past selves in these women, as they worked the fields alongside men, their faces towards the yellow earth and their skin darkened by the sun.
