By Xu Hong When I was a child, my mother often took me to witch doctors in the nearby villages to burn incense, asking them to bless our family with peace. After I got married, I learned that my husband’s family had worshiped witch doctors for more than twenty years. They worshiped the statues of […]
By Xiaoyi Before I got married, I always saw the sisters-in-law in my neighborhood argued with each other over trivial family affairs, and even created a widespread uproar. I thought: It is often said, “A tree lives with its bark; a man lives with his face,” and “Don’t wash your dirty linen in public.” When […]
By Cheng Shun The Death of My Neighbor Evokes My Memories At past 8:00 p.m. on a midsummer evening, my neighbor Wang Ke’s wife rushed to my house with a phone in her hand, and said, “It’s high time that Wang Ke should be home, but he still hasn’t arrived yet. I’ve phoned him so […]
Before I got married to my husband, he caught a rare incurable sequela, severe sinus bradycardia, after a serious disease. As he grew older, his heartbeat grew ever slower. After marriage, his condition worsened increasingly, and he developed dizziness, widespread limpness, chest pain with his lips cyanotic due to severe insufficiency of blood supply. When […]
By Zheng Xin After Spring Festival, I found a job of sewing buttons and packaging in a small privately-owned clothing factory. In order not to miss meetings, I told the boss that I was to do piece work on a flexible schedule and get paid according to the amount of work I did. And my […]
By An Hui Having an Inferiority Complex About My Plain Appearance I used to be a very inferior girl. Whenever I saw beautiful and elegant girls on TV or in magazines, I was consumed with envy. Then, looking at myself in the mirror: Ordinary appearance, normal figure, and yellowish teeth, all these caused the sense […]
Before I got married to my husband, he caught a rare incurable sequela, severe sinus bradycardia, after a serious disease. As he grew older, his heartbeat grew ever slower. After marriage, his condition worsened increasingly, and he developed dizziness, widespread limpness, chest pain with his lips cyanotic due to severe insufficiency of blood supply. When […]
By Han Xiao When I was a child, I had a short fuse, angering more easily. Once, my father said a classmate in my class was into study, while I could not come up to her. I became angry right away, saying, “You can regard her as your daughter if you think she is excellent. […]
By Zheng Xue I used to think that, after going to college and getting a good diploma, I would then be able to find a good job and live a good life, and that this would also mean that I would have a good destiny…. But things didn’t quite turn out this way … I […]
By Du Juan I was born into a poor family in a rural village. Since I was a child, I lived a tough life and was looked down upon by others. I sometimes did not even know if I would have my next meal, let alone snacks and toys. Since my family was poor, when […]