Youko has three fathers and two mothers, and the family has changed seven times in seventeen years. But she felt that she had not suffered anything, which surprised and puzzled many people with family changes. Children who normally have step-fathers or step-mothers will feel that they are miserable, which is already a mindset that has been indoctrinated since childhood.
Yuko's biological mother died when she was 3 years old and lived with her biological father until elementary school. Dad remarried for a few years, because of work, he went to Brazil, and Youko lived with her stepmother, Ewha's sister. Sister Ewha married her twice, and finally Ewha's sister chose to disappear, while Yuko lived with Uncle Moriya and Youko and her last father until high school.
This is the story in the famous Japanese novelist Maiko Seto's "The Baton of Love", and the heroine is a 17-year-old high school student Yuko. She has come to 3 families and experienced 7 family changes, but she is still loved and has the ability to love herself.
The book became the No. 1 of the Japan Bookstore Awards, reprinted 14 times in half a year, sold more than 14,000 copies a week, and was well received on the website. The film of the same name, starring a number of popular A-list stars, including Nagano, Rimi Ishihara, and Kei Tanaka, will be released on October 29, 2021. This is the "family novel I want to see" by hundreds of thousands of readers after "Family of Thieves".
The author is the famous Japanese novelist Maiko Seto, who became a middle school Chinese teacher after graduating from university, and resigned at the age of 35 due to physical reasons. At present, there are 30 works, 5 novels have been adapted into films, and the awards are continuous. Up to now, her writing is delicate and warm, so that readers can feel the gentle side.
The reason why this "Relay Baton of Love" is so popular is that everyone in the book has characteristics, and is kind and gentle, loving Youzi from everyone's point of view, and Youzi is loved by several parents.
Because of her love, Youko in the book is full of positive energy and radiant.
Her first choice was whether to follow her father to Brazil or stay in Japan to live with Ewha's sister. At that time, she was only in elementary school, and she made a particularly big choice in her life. She lives happily with Sister Ewha, who is always full of enthusiasm, fashionable and beautiful.
Although Youko regrets it when she grows up, because the choice at that time only considers friends and ignores family affection, Youko has a clear understanding of herself. Whether it is her feelings for her friends or her own future, she has made the right choice.
After all, friends are not eternal, but there is only one biological father who raised him.
Although ignored by friends, it can not affect learning, and friends cannot guarantee their future.
Even if I followed my father to Brazil, there would be a different loneliness that would plague me. The only thing you can do now is to live the life in front of you.
Youko is calm most of the time, but after all, she is a child in her 10s, so she sometimes becomes sensitive.
For example, with Uncle Moriya because of a piano thing, getting along with each other has become cautious. So it will also confuse her: it is precisely because they are not related by blood that they are more desperate to play the role of good parents. The sense of distance that ordinary families do not have always haunts me.
She has always felt that because of her own reasons, uncle Morimiya has a burden, after all, he is not related to Youko at all, but was given to Morimiya by his stepmother Ewha sister to let him take care of the person. Therefore, sometimes she does not ask too high a demand, and will say to Uncle Moriya: Sorry, is it more disgusting to you; you have done enough for me...
But love is all mutual. In "The Baton of Love", we feel the importance of this intimate relationship. For Sister Ewha, because of Youko, she feels that her tomorrow is full of more possibilities and future tomorrow. After becoming a parent, the future will also double. Don't you think it's great to have two copies of tomorrow?
Uncle Morimiya became self-aware of yuko's arrival and was full of hope for life. Moriya is a top-notch college student at UTokyo and works for a first-class company, but Yuko makes him love life even more.
As Maiko Seto mentions in "The Baton of Love", what really makes people feel happy is not when weaving joy with whom, but when handing the baton to a vast future full of unknowns.