“If I could rewind, I'll be a good girl every time.”

A girl needs to be ______. Fill in the blank.

Every Chinese girl has grown up under guidelines to a certain happy ending. Don’t dream, stay quiet. Be sweet, tune it down. When suppression happens out of genuine care and concern, it is difficult to make peace with the natural calling within our soul to break free.

So you end up having a unique generation using their whole life to explore what transition means. We grew up following traditional teachings, yet our exposure to outside culture set our mind free. We are quiet, gentle, and chic. We long for romance and a happy family. However, we also have ambition, force, and dedication.

We are princesses. We are warriors. We take pride in our beauty as much as we do in our abilities. We are unapologetic of our over-the-top girliness and our relentless pursuit of our life’s higher meaning.