The removal of a county and the establishment of a city, the transformation of county citizens into citizens, and there are many stories hidden in each word. Departure and perseverance in the officialdom, loss and planning in the shopping mall, escape and return in the countryside, and struggle and liberation in love, all are staged on the banks of the Chuanchang River. The novel connects the officialdom, shopping malls, rural areas and love scenes under the name of "stringing together scenes" to narrate scenes of human drama in the urbanization process of Linghai County.