To the Age of Eighteen: Yan Ruyu in Xuguang
by Han Xusha
About This Novel
This is Han Xusha's growth autobiography written on the eve of her eighteenth birthday on September 7, 2026. She was born in Yibin, Sichuan, in the autumn of 2008, and her hometown is Hefei, Anhui. She was almost abandoned in a well at birth because her parents favored sons over daughters. Fortunately, her grandmother fought hard to save her and named her Yan Ruyu. She was raised by her grandmother when she was one or two years old, and lived with her parents when she was four years old. Later, her parents were taken away by the police and she became homeless overnight. She first lived temporarily in Doujie Welfare Institute for a year, and officially moved into Shanghai Children's Welfare Institute (No. 9977 Zhongchun Road, Minhang District) on August 1, 2013, and changed her name to Han Xusha. Han is the collective surname of the welfare home, and Xu is taken from the rebirth of the morning light in August. Sha is like weeds in the field, ordinary but endless, tenacious and sunny. The whole book is based on seventeen years, from birth in the cold night, grandma's protection, family changes, loneliness, and freshman in the welfare home, to the enlightenment of the elementary school in the hospital, studying at Hanghua No. 2 Primary School, the growth of Hanghua Middle School, winning the architectural model award, and youth. The budding worries, the disappointment in the high school entrance examination, the estrangement and reconciliation with teacher Jiang Liwei, the light and power on the road to chasing stars, the persistence of the dream of being an actor, all of which describe the coldness of fate, the kindness of the world, and the stubbornness of youth. From the weak and fragile Yan Ruyu to the gentle and tough Xuguang girl, she reconciles with the past, embraces herself, seals the past in words, and gives it to herself who is about to turn eighteen.
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