The woman remained silent for a few seconds and then shook her head decisively.
"I want the entire central region to witness this, since I've chosen to go live, I won't worry about how many people see me in my dire state."
"My parents, my cruel mother-in-law, my unreasonable in-laws, even if they ridicule me, I won't hear it, I'll let them laugh."
"All I want is for my daughter to get well, and then we can go live in Wencheng together."
"I'll take care of my daughter, watch her grow up into an adult!"
"I do not intend to stay in this town. My final destination is Wencheng. So, Miss Gu, please help me go live to the entire central region."
Gu Sang opened her mouth slightly, amazed at the woman's clarity.
She suddenly felt that her endeavor to go live to the past was entirely worthwhile.
To be able to change the fate of so many people!
To have an accepting and equal Wencheng.
It might not be mature yet, but it's enough, enough for these women who dare not step into the realm of freedom, to take the bravest step!
"Alright, think carefully about what you want to say tomorrow. It's getting late today, make sure to rest well."
The woman nodded firmly, her gaze fixed on the disappearing screen.
She once cared so much about her reputation, for the sake of being a 'good wife', for praises from her husband and mother-in-law, she gave up everything.
Before her marriage, her mother told her that marrying well, having children, keeping her husband happy, were the best — that all honor rested on her husband's shoulders.
But, at the end of it all, she realized that happiness is not something given by a man.
The woman placed her hand on her daughter Niu Niu's forehead with anxiety and anticipation, trying to soothe her fever, "Niu Niu, we just need to make it through tonight."
"I believe in Miss Gu, and I also believe that there are many women like me in the world, with no other choice."
"I believe that people will empathize!"
The next day.
Gu Sang woke up early in the morning. When she started the live broadcast, it was already noon on the other side, when the sun was scorching hot.
Once the live broadcast began, numerous people spotted the sky and hurriedly left their homes to take a better look.
Street vendors occasionally looked up at the sky, and then back at their goods.
Farmers working in the fields glanced up once, and then returned to their work.
After all, the voice from the sky was so loud, they could hear it just fine.
Only the children had the leisure to make noise while looking up at the sky.
"Today we have a special live broadcast, a broadcast from a woman of your era."
"Without further ado, I'll hand the time over to her!"
As Gu Sang finished speaking, the sky suddenly darkened.
The next second, the scene in the sky changed.
The screen clearly showed the woman's surprised and astonished face to the entire central region.
Ancient people wouldn't be able to see Gu Sang, as she had hidden her image and enlarged the woman's image on the screen.
The woman didn't react until she heard Gu Sang's voice, reminding her:
"The live broadcast has begun, you can speak now."
To prevent any trolls from ridiculing the woman during her speech, or her friends and relatives talking her down, which could destroy her hard-earned courage all over again,
Gu Sang preemptively blocked the comments on her end.
And so...
The woman could only hear Gu Sang speaking to her. She couldn't hear or see anyone else.
As soon as the woman's face appeared on the celestial screen, the neighbours rushed to notify her husband's family.
"Ah, Gui Lan, come out quickly. Isn't this your daughter-in-law? How did she get up to the celestial screen?"
In the neighbouring village, the woman's parents were working in the fields. Suddenly they heard their daughter's voice. The mother looked up, shocked to see her daughter on the celestial screen.
"Old man! It's - it's our daughter--"
Days ago, they had received news that their daughter had been abandoned.
The mother was so angry she nearly fainted.
The entire family was disappointed in the woman.
Similarly, the father glanced at the sky, immediately lost his temper and yelled:
"What's there to look at? I don't consider her my daughter anymore. How dare she run away with another man! If she dares to come back, I'll break her legs.”
Having previously been informed by their daughter's mother-in-law that their daughter had run away with another man, they were shamed.
The entire village knew their daughter had run off with a strange man. As the woman of the village who had been abandoned, she caused the entire family to hang their heads in shame.
Seeing his own daughter now, the man felt only anger. He even wished he could retrieve his daughter and drown her.
The mother, seeing her husband's cold indifference, didn't dare say any more, only muttered bitterly: "It's a calamity."
"Why can’t they just live a simple life? Why the chaos?"
"This isn't like modern times. How can a woman who's been divorced get married again!"
At the moment when parents were indifferent and even showed disgust to their own daughter...
The woman began to speak.
She first spoke about following her parents’ orders to get married, then about the time her eldest daughter was abandoned by her mother-in-law.
Hearing this, the mother-in-law immediately yelled from beneath the celestial screen:
"You shameless fox, keep on talking and I'll tear your mouth apart."
"You gave birth to a daughter first, clearly you didn’t want her, asked me to find her a good family, and now you accuse me?"
Others in the village, with neutral faces, advised: "Forget it, calm down, teach her a good lesson when she comes back."
People in the village have more or less done similar things.
In these times birth control was unheard of.
You gave birth and raised them. If they didn't survive, they died.
Especially for daughters, too many were given away or drowned at birth.
Seeing the neighbors on her side, the mother-in-law immediately cried:
"Why did I let a woman like this into my family, and now she's left with another man."
People comforted her with understanding, but whether there was schadenfreude in this comfort was unknown.
In any case, the woman couldn’t hear these false accusations.
The woman quickly got to the topic, the day she took her daughter and left.
Some women, who were originally thinking the same thing, when they heard that the woman dared to take her child and leave alone without her parents' support...
Didn't she fear to meet bad people?
Didn't she fear...
When the women admired and longed for the woman to live better with her children than before, the woman’s topic took a dramatic turn.
Living on the streets with her child, struggling to keep them both fed.
No one would hire her because of her child.
Her child fell ill...
As the story unfolded, many women silently dabbed at their tears.
From the woman's tales, they could foresee the terrible circumstances they would face if they dared to leave their paternal homes.
