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"Based on X" is a collection of short stories written by writer Yu Jingru. It contains eight stories. The people in the stories are around us, or even ourselves: the daughter who has a cold war with her mother, the food blogger who rents a house in a big city, the wife who is increasingly falling apart in a mediocre marriage, the plus-size girl who works the night shift... The author uses a subtle touch to present the various plights of urban young people. In the topsy-turvy day and night, in the hopeless mediocrity, in the insomnia and anxiety, in the loneliness that is resisted and welcomed, the predicament that belongs to us must also be examined and explored by ourselves.

A mental patient has received pure love, a woman holding a baby is still a child at heart, a car repairman covered in oil allows his wife to have an affair, and a laughing and playing boy holds a murder weapon in the dark night. Is the life of ordinary people really ordinary? All kinds of people come and go in a hurry before our eyes. We focus on our own world and never notice them... In the form of novels, young female writer Yu Jingru tries to explore these seemingly ordinary strangers and explore the hidden turmoil of daily life. A picture in her imagination led to her first short story collection "Cousin Anna". She casts her gaze on the memories of her childhood and adolescence, and also on the multiple possibilities of the interaction between character and destiny. Under her calm narrative, what is hidden is the patient management and multi-layered peeling off of the characters.

When spring first came, Lihua was invited to her home by the captain of her class. The captain invited her to eat two plums and then asked her to sit on the sofa while he stood in front of her and changed clothes one by one. Lihua sat uneasily, sucking two plum blossoms in her mouth, rolling them around with her tongue. The two plum blossoms gradually lost their flavor, but Lihua still smelled the refreshing aroma. She couldn't help but bite them with her teeth, but the captain immediately handed over an ashtray and said: "Spit it in!" Lihua was flattered, and even though she was reluctant to let go, she spit it out quickly. Two white plum cores swirled around in the brown glass jar and became immobile after being stained with cigarette ashes.