Her father hated her, hated her to the extreme.
Ever since she was born, even if her grades were good, it was a pain for her father. Because she was a girl, not a boy, every award certificate she received for her studies was a slap in her father's face. What good was it for a daughter to be capable? It would be better if a son was that strong.
In the Old Xie Family, it wasn't just about favoring sons over daughters, it was about men being masters and women being slaves. Xie Wanying remembered too well, every year during the family's Spring Festival dinner, the wives and daughters of the Xie Family had to eat in the kitchen. Only the men and the sons and grandsons could eat, drink, and be merry at the main table.
She wanted to be a doctor, a surgeon, which was a job only men could do. She wanted to do it for herself, for her mother, for all the women of the Old Xie Family, for all the women in this place who were looked down upon.
"What men can do, I, as a girl, can do the same."
