Chapter 1637: Chapter 1637: The Secret of Black Hair
Women who can bear several children are very fortunate indeed, even the government will commend them, awarding the Birth Contribution Prize, along with a generous monetary reward.
Even advanced medicine cannot solve this issue, so, over the past three hundred years, the world’s population has not significantly increased; instead, it has diminished by a quarter.
This is the tragedy of an era and a global issue, thus countries worldwide are encouraging childbirth, and women’s fertility has become a focal point.
Madam Roland looked at Yiyi with a bitter smile, her beautiful, profound eyes filled with deep sorrow and helplessness.
Due to the heavy responsibility of reproduction, the standards for evaluating women ironically are not based on their abilities, character, or even appearance, but rather their fertility.
Women with high fertility, who can give birth to healthy offspring, are the ones admired by society, respected women, pursued and cherished by many men.
While infertile women are viewed as naturally disabled, seen through colored lenses in this fertility-first world, they suffer from invisible discrimination.
Even the government exacerbates this discrimination. Every mature woman, upon reaching adulthood, must undergo a comprehensive physiological examination in a hospital. Those with high fertility indices will receive encouragement to reproduce from the government and plentiful subsidies, gaining access to premium resources in social life, work, and education.
In such a distorted society, men, seeking quality offspring, naturally pursue women with high fertility.
Yet they do not have medical machines’ eyes to see at a glance whether a woman has high fertility or not.
Under the influence of this long-standing demand, it was claimed that some authoritative institutions discovered that a woman’s fertility is heavily related to the depth of her hair color.
Allegedly, after a century of sample surveys, they reached a conclusion that the darker the hair color, the richer the hue, transitioning towards black, the stronger the fertility. Conversely, women with lighter hair colors generally have weaker fertility, or are even infertile.
Such quantitative judgment standards have cultivated a social craze that the darker the hair color, the more welcome the woman is among men.
Yet black hair, a hair color not rare centuries ago, gradually disappeared among women following a calamity. Mutant hair colors like red, silver, blue, etc., became prevalent, leaving a void of this purest hair color, although some men still possessed it, their numbers also very few.
Because of this miraculous reason, this girl’s silky black hair alone, captured in a single photograph, caused such a sensation.
Because it truly is a miracle.
"Du Le, what should we do with her? Hand her over to the government? Such a sensitive presence, I fear we won’t be able to protect her," Madam Roland asked.
Professor Du Le shook his head, "Handing her over would probably ruin her entire life, and who knows what tool she’d become. Let’s wait till she wakes up, learn about her origins, and secretly send her back!"
These spouses are cautious and wise people, vaguely sensing that Yiyi’s arrival would stir a significant upheaval.
Yet upon seeing this unconscious, pitiful girl, they ultimately couldn’t harden their hearts.
Yiyi, due to being shot, sustained severe injuries and has remained in a coma.
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the incident, on the western coast of the Aus Empire in the open sea.
