"Take having children, for instance. Elder Gao would stop at nothing to compete. Not long after my grandfather and grandmother married, they had my father. Elder Gao was green with envy. He went through several wives; when the first two failed to conceive within six months, he demanded a divorce."
"When the third wife finally became pregnant, both my grandparents thought he would finally calm down. But no—to keep pace with my grandfather, he forced the hospital to induce labor before his wife was even seven months along. In the end, the baby was born frail and skeletal, and his wife hemorrhaged and died."
"After comparing sons, they started comparing grandsons. I am 30 years old this year, and Gao Zhan is 28. Back then, Elder Gao hounded his daughter-in-law to give birth; if she failed to produce a child in half a year, he would make his son divorce her. His son only managed to father Gao Zhan with his third wife. As you know, Gao Zhan was also a premature baby."
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