The Wenhao system helped me become a killer

Mikako and the other two were fascinated by Fu Jiuyue's soft and emotional reading.

At this time, most newspapers and magazines were written by men, and most of them focused on these major events. People with lofty ideals were also calling for change and to become stronger and richer.

At the same time, the liberation of women was also a slogan that was shouted loudly. Men began to have new demands and expectations for women, requiring them to start to step out and have independent abilities.

China has been a patriarchal society for thousands of years, after being a matriarchal society. Although the status of women has risen several times, such as when Emperor Wu came to power, it was soon counterattacked. In particular, feudal ideology reached its peak during the Qing Dynasty, and the oppression of women was even deeper.

In the early days of the Republic of China, men's braids and women's feet were proposed at the same time, but what was the result? In ten years, the braids that were related to their own interests were almost completely cut off, except for some really stubborn old feudalists. But what they defended was not the braids, but the dignity and power of the Qing Dynasty.

What about women's bound feet? People with insight only made dry appeals, saying that the biggest change would also be harmful, and that women with bound feet should not be married. However, those women who could not change were sacrificed in the tide of the times. There were countless women like Grandma Shen.

Even so, in remote rural areas and underdeveloped areas, as long as men's deformed aesthetics and twisted psychology remain, foot binding, an almost perverted harm to women's bodies and minds, will not stop.

Shen Wenjiao's novel directly reveals the difficulties and sufferings of women, the oppression of the whole society, the struggles of the elder sister after she submitted to foot binding, and the various oppressions faced by the younger sister after she resisted.

To be honest, when Mikako first saw the title of the manuscript in Fu Jiuyue's hand was "Twin Flowers in Bloom", she thought it was a romantic novel written by Shen Wenjiao when she was bored and imitated what she saw in the newspaper.

She looked curious but actually didn't take it too seriously. However, as Fu Jiuyue read on, Mikako's eyes became redder and redder. She sympathized with her sister's experience and admired her sister's slowly becoming firmer determination.

Mikako thought of her own mother, who was very smart and capable, and did not have her feet bound, but in fact was trapped at home just like she had bound feet. The status of women in Japan was sometimes even lower than that of Chinese women, and they were like an asset that men could show off.

"What's next? Has your sister found a job? Will your sister decide to unbind her feet?" Mikako looked at Shen Wenjiao and asked. She urgently wanted to get some kind of confirmation that there was hope.

Mikako never said that her family had given her a final ultimatum: after graduating from Meihua Primary School, she would return to her country to attend a bride-training school, and then get married in accordance with her family's requirements to build connections for the Fujiya family.

"To know what happens next, please listen to the next episode." Under the pressure of the other four people's eyes, Shen Wenjiao firmly kept it a secret. Could she say that she was still revising it!

In her first version, the elder sister did not have a good ending, which was very sad. But now, after slowly revising it, Shen Wenjiao wants to give these women of the old times a direction, a chance to be self-reliant and take control of their own lives again, and a bright and beautiful future.

Simply put, there is no follow-up after the major revision! This time, I only brought the first 50,000 words, and Shen Wenjiao also wanted to collect everyone's opinions.

"You have to write quickly, okay~" Mikako glanced at the manuscript in Fu Jiuyue's hand reluctantly, and Fu Jiuyue was so scared that she hugged her.

Shen Wenjiao's face was full of black lines. Big sister, you still need a real person to urge for more updates!

"Yeah, as long as there are people reading it, I will definitely write it carefully until the end. It will probably be more than 200,000 words! I've already finished a quarter of it~"

Shen Wenjiao was not famous at all and was still a complete newcomer. Most newspapers would not accept her unfinished manuscript. Otherwise, Shen Wenjiao would not have thought of bothering Fu Jiuyue!

Lilith and Michelle did not have as many feelings as Mikako and Fu Jiuyue, but they were also curious about the various details of foot binding in Shen Wenjiao's article. Shen Wenjiao revised this paragraph several times before she finally made it a pair of tears. The cruel and bloody description in it made people feel terrified and numb all over, and made people vaguely feel that they were also experiencing the torture.

"Oh my God~ Jiaojiao, what kind of hobby do men in your country have?" Lilith curled her lips, looking down on this distorted aesthetic.

"Yes, it's so bloody and cruel!" Michelle felt a little ashamed when she thought of the ladies who walked on their broken toe bones at the banquets she occasionally attended. She had laughed at them for pretending to be slow!

"Jiaojiao, I will take the manuscript back today. I guarantee that my uncle will like it. You write really well, but, Jiaojiao, what's your pen name?"

Fu Jiuyue flipped through the manuscript but couldn't find the pen name, so she looked at the stunned Shen Wenjiao curiously.

Just like the historical celebrity Mr. Lu Xun, in fact, the two words "Lu Xun" are just one of his pen names and also the most famous and widely known pen name. His original name was Zhou Shuren, and his pen name was Yucai.

Shen Wenjiao didn't dare to pick a name randomly, what if one day she would become famous enough to appear in textbooks? People always have to have some dreams~ But when I looked at it, it turned out to be Shen Wenjiao, whose pen name is Fish Who Loves Cats. Well, that would be a real social failure.

In fact, there were many pen names during the Republic of China period, and some masters had many pseudonyms, and some names did not match their gender! For example, Mao Dun was once called "Ms. Fengxu", Guo Moruo was called "Anna", Zhou Shuren was called "Ms. Pingyun" and "Ms. Biluo", etc.

So the pen name is neither important nor particularly important.

"I've thought of several, but none of them are satisfactory." Shen Wenjiao rubbed her fingers, her tone a little weak.

"Then can I help you pick one?" Oh, she couldn't write, but she could help pick a name! Fu Jiuyue suggested with shining eyes.

Now, Mikako and the other two who were discussing the plot nearby also became interested and actively asked to join in.

"Wangshu" is an elegant name for the moon, which is elegant enough, but it really doesn't match Shen Wenjiao! Most importantly, it doesn't match the novel "Double Blooming Flowers"!

"Autumn Water" Haha, I still think that autumn water and the sky are the same color, and the setting sun and the lone wild goose fly together! Shen Wenjiao looked at Lilith who proposed this pen name speechlessly.

"Descendants of Qinglian" was proposed by Fu Jiuyue, who has some literary ideas.

"Free New Woman" Haha, Shen Wenjiao rolled her eyes. Did Michelle forget the Statue of Liberty in the United States? It sounds like they are almost the same name~

After a heated discussion among the five people, they finally decided to name it "Baihua".

Fu Jiuyue silently glanced at Shen Wenjiao, who didn't seem to say much, and thought of a poem in her heart.

"When the autumn comes on September th, I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom. The fragrance of the sky spreads through Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor."

(This poem is "Poem on Chrysanthemums after Failure" by Huang Chao, the leader of the peasant uprising in the Tang Dynasty. It implies that once the peasant storm comes, the corrupt Tang Dynasty will immediately become like "hundreds of flowers" encountering frost, turning into withered branches and fallen leaves. Through the image of chrysanthemums, it expresses the firm belief that the revolution will win and the vision of a better world in the future.)