Introduction to the novel "Xiao Nuan's Half Life Shadow"
The heroine Xiaonuan was put into a bamboo basket and abandoned at the entrance of the village by her biological parents when she was just born. Her childless grandparents took pity on her and took her back to the countryside to raise her. The whole village knew about her life experience as an abandoned baby since she was a child. Rumors and rumors grew up with her, creating an indelible inferiority complex and a please-pleaser personality in her bones.
During her schooling, her classmates arbitrarily excluded and ridiculed her for her unknown background. Her low self-esteem trapped her in her study status. Her grades were always lagging behind, and she lived in the eyes of others with contempt for a long time. In her first relationship as an adult, she devoted all her humble efforts, but only received her boyfriend's indifference and consumption. After seeing the reality clearly, she reluctantly broke up and went to the city to work alone to make a living.
During the years of wandering alone, her original trauma made her afraid of intimacy and did not dare to express her sincerity easily. Until she met her current boyfriend, she was short of love and seized the rare warmth. After living together unmarried, she unexpectedly became pregnant and entered the life of her husband's family. The powerful parents-in-law always looked down upon and interfered in trivial matters of childcare, while the husband would only advise her to be patient when something happened. The two had conflicting views, and their communication was reduced to endless quarrels.
Xiaonuan, who has become a stay-at-home mother, is stuck with trivial household chores all day long and is reluctant to get her certificate. She is reluctant to let go of her young children and is trapped in a suffocating marital strife. The shadow of her abandoned childhood buried deep in her heart kept harassing her repeatedly. Even though she had been meek and tolerant for half her life, no one truly understood or supported her. Throughout her life, the scars left by her youth could not be completely healed. She could only bear the pain caused by her life experience, studies, emotions and marriage alone, and spent half her life full of regrets amid endless self-pull.
A very true story.