You have two older brothers. One is ten years older than you, and one is eight years older than you. The whole family is delighted about your birth.

The traditional dominance of the patriarch in your family has been replaced by a more equal parental partnership. Both your brothers are married and have children by the time you are in Middle School. They said one day, “We will pool our money to buy you a house or a car. You can repay us later.”

Only in your uncle do you detect any disapproval in your family that you are a girl, you can see it in his eyes.

He always said that to your Mom. You are raised to appreciate that responsibility for providing financial support to your parents as they aged is no longer the sole responsibility of sons.

At the age of 18, you received an offer of a university place in a nearby city. That night, your brothers both came back to your parents’ home. The whole family is together. You went out for dinner to celebrate. A week before school starts, they walked you to the train station.







That was the last sentence said by your dad.

It’s two o’clock in the morning. You have given birth to your son at the county hospital.

You planned to have a natural birth, enduring the pain of contractions and waiting for dilation to reach 3 to 4 cm. After the pre–birth examination, the nurse came back with bad news. The fetus was not in the correct position. The child would be at risk of suffocation if they were delivered naturally.

Before your husband signed the operation agreement, your mother–in–law asked if there was still a possibility to have a natural birth because as it was local folk law that children born naturally are more intelligent.