"I got married to Li Zhen's father at the age of twenty-two, and for almost ten years we didn't have children. Initially, it didn't seem like a big deal, because after marriage, I went on to pursue my postgraduate studies and was busy with work. But years later, panic set in as I sought doctors and medicine everywhere, yet many hospitals declared me infertile..."
In those days, twenty or thirty years ago, a woman in her early thirties without children was bound to face the terrifying scrutiny of others.
