She possessed the strength to knock someone down with a single punch and made no effort to hide it, brutally beating half to death many of the men she had gone on arranged dates with and disliked...
It would be stranger if Shizuka Hiratsuka could succeed in matchmaking!
There was no helping it. In a country steeped in an atmosphere of "male superiority and female inferiority," girls being overly strong was one of the original sins. Don't think that was alarmist—just look at the Celestial Empire of old. Had it not been the same?
The phrase "a woman's lack of talent is a virtue" had trapped countless girls behind their gates and within their inner quarters. Even when the occasional woman broke free of those shackles and left her name for talent to be remembered by later generations, their lives had often been filled with suffering.
Such as Li Shangyin and Su Xiaomei of the Song Dynasty, Wang Zhaojun and Cai Wenji of the Han Dynasty, Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty, and so on...
Which one of them had not lived out a tragic life bound by the tradition of "male superiority and female inferiority"?
Even Su Dongpo, the great lyricist so admired by people and Su Xiaomei's elder brother, had described his friend's wife as a "Hedong Lion" merely because his friend feared his own wife. He might not even have met that wife himself, relying solely on what people said:
"The Liu family's daughter is rather fierce"...
And so he passed down the derogatory term "Hedong Lion" for over a thousand years.
What supported it was precisely this so-called "male superiority and female inferiority."
Fortunately, the Celestial Empire was a land where dragons rose, so naturally great figures descended upon the world and told everyone, "Women can