Last night I was scrolling through short videos and came across one from Yunnan. The woman is only 26 years old, and she’s already had eight daughters. She still wants to keep having children. Her husband’s family is very poor and doesn’t really take care of her. Her parents also tell her not to keep giving birth, but she doesn’t listen. She wants to have a son. Her mindset is exactly the same as the villagers back in my village. I don’t know why rural people are so obsessed with having sons.
I was scrolling Douyin before and came across an idiot influencer. She was pregnant, yet she was still teaching other people how to do the “koi fish stretch” (ab exercises). Later, she went into preterm labor. A bunch of people started cursing her in the comments. After that, her account got banned. She has absolutely no common sense. When you’re pregnant, you can’t do intense exercise, and you can’t lift heavy objects. For someone like her, not having a miscarriage is basically luck. Everyone, please don’t learn from her—your own health and safety matter the most.
Wow, this place is so cool. I was scrolling Douyin today and came across Liupanshui in Guizhou—it's so refreshing. I checked the weather forecast: it's just over 20 degrees. It's more than ten degrees cooler than where we work. It's so comfortable. Too bad I have to work, and I don't have any money—otherwise I'd really want to go to Liupanshui to cool off for the summer.
I was terrified last night and couldn’t fall asleep all night. I was scrolling Douyin and saw something from Shanxi: after a young woman dies, her grave gets dug up by someone, and her body is used to marry a man who died without getting married. Then she’s buried together with that man. The prettier the woman, the easier it is for her grave to be dug up. Life is so painful for women—while they’re alive they have to be given in marriage and have children, and even after they die they still aren’t allowed to rest peacefully as someone digs up their grave.
Every year I go back home for Chinese New Year, and my seven aunts and eight uncles always ask me: For someone almost 30, why aren’t you married yet? I say I don’t want to, but that’s not really it—I just haven’t met the right person. The guys at the factory all dress in styles that are anything but mainstream, and some even dye their hair yellow; we just can’t really connect. As for those who trade crypto, no one seems interested in me. The broke ones think I’m a gambler. The ones with money think I’m too old, and everyone prefers an 18-year-old. These days, finding a partner is harder than finding a class to get into.
When will my followers grow to 100,000? If I have 100,000 followers, can I accept lots of ads every day and then not have to go to work? I don’t want to work. I don’t want to try hard. I just want to lie flat and do nothing.
Today I was scrolling Douyin, and in Hainan there’s a person who didn’t drink Meng Po soup and still has memories from his previous life. When he was three and could already speak, he told his parents, “I’m not your child.” Then he asked his parents to take him to find his mother from his previous life. At that time, his previous-life mother was already over 90 years old. After his previous-life mother passed away, he even went to kneel and fulfill his filial duties. Tell me—how amazing is that?