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Are you that person who thinks you are kind and harmless, but is actually cold and cruel? "People Who Harm Me" contains eight novels written by Cui Enrong. In the author's words, those relationships that ended silently in sobs, those indifferent and belated disappointments, those indifferent and determined turns and disregards, together build an emotional network that is more complex than the plot of the story. The wife of a prisoner who suffered injustice, the student who was domestically abused, the believer who fled to Africa to practice asceticism, the family members of the victims of the shipwreck, the confidants in the foreign country isolated by the war... The people in the story are wandering on the edge of the secular world, most of them are weak and quiet, harmless but have been hurt repeatedly, and it is difficult to escape the melancholy and pain. Their hearts form their own unique texture with inherent trauma, which cannot be erased or repaired. The perpetrators are often harmless people like them. The comfort and happiness that the world longs for can always be realized after shielding the loneliness and pain of others. Cui Enrong recorded these cruel stories in a gentle style. They exude coldness under the warm sunshine, and reveal great loss in the intimacy. When memories crackle silently, half of the people in the story move forward without hesitation, while the other half stay where they are forever, with only loneliness echoing.

The only full-length novel "Bright Night": I think of the unknown women who once lent me their shoulders. Someone must have lent their shoulders to them. The pioneering short story collection "The Harmless Person to Me": Are you that person who thinks you are kind and harmless, but is actually indifferent and cruel? "People Who Harm Me" contains eight works. The much-anticipated latest short story collection "Even with the Weakest Light": Some people only accompany me for a part of the journey, but their light shines with them for the rest of their lives. "Even with the Weakest Light" is Cui Enrong's latest collection of novels, including a total of seven works. The work focuses on the intense, long-lasting and complex relationships between women. The women in the story fight against similar fates and become each other's support. They firmly carry out mutual rescue and support in many cages that want to oppress and imprison them.

After divorcing my husband, at the age of thirty-one, I came to the seaside town of Xiling alone, where I met my grandmother whom I had not seen for many years. After the embarrassment and silence, my lonely heart got closer and closer, and my grandmother and I became friends who confided in each other. In the old photo album in my grandmother's old house, I found a woman who looked very similar to me, nestling next to my grandmother when I was a girl. Each vivid face gradually came to me from the black and white photos, from the touching letters, from the long memories, through the era when women's life was like a piece of grass and their life was like a piece of grass. The stories that came to me through my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and my mother, their lives replayed before my eyes. Can I reach them now? Just as the countless selves in the past make up the present me, can the present me also see the countless selves in the past?