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If I was really given some more time, I would live my life differently. So that you don't die like an animal that gets hit in the head with a hammer, be prepared to not be afraid next time. Let the hottest, truest, and clearest thing in my heart be released. Towards the terrifying and ruthless world, towards a life that could inadvertently abandon me at any time. First, light the fire, and then watch it with all your strength until it burns out.

This book consists of eight novellas and short stories. Water and fire, softness and sharpness, spring and winter, plants and iron, Han Jiang discerns the momentary feelings and impressions in these conflicts, depicts the expression of fate with beautiful and vivid language, and shines with dazzling light when probing the dark side of the relationship between people. The short story collection focuses on the "lower class" people, and each protagonist seems to be wandering "like an orphan in a hopeless world." They walked out of hotel rooms in remote towns, rooms at the end of examination hall corridors, dark basements or the end of corridors in multi-family houses and high-rise apartments, passed through dark staircases and alleys without streetlights, and walked into the busy and tiring city streets. However, even if they leave many tired people and unhappy cities and come to live in remote seaside or marginal port cities, they will eventually return to the city. This is their fate. They are surrounded by urban noise, pollution and complex interpersonal relationships, but there is no paradise or mother that can tolerate and comfort them. Paradise and Mother exist only in dreams or on the other side of death. The world they live in is their father's world, an evil and cold world. There is the real world, full of snakes, numbers 13 and 4, and cold iron products. The characters in Han Jiang's novel will be reborn there.

As night falls, darkness is like a soul with disheveled hair, soaking the black mountains, mixing with the black rivers, and sinking into the vast surface. The once hot and noisy city under the sun, the city boiling with countless battles, conspiracies and encounters, now lays out long and lazy bodies in the cool darkness of a sarcophagus. The lights at night looked like cheap gems buried together in the tomb. On such nights, the characters in Han Jiang's works leave, abandon, wander, and fall, missing things that are not available in this world on the verge of death.

This set contains 5 works by Han Jiang, namely "Vegetarian", "Aphasia", "Put Dinner in the Drawer", "White" and "Plant Wife".

In order to escape the violence from her husband, family, society and the crowd, she decided to become a tree. In the eyes of Yinghui's husband, Mr. Zheng, Yinghui before her illness was an ordinary woman: neither tall nor short, hair neither long nor short, plain in appearance, dressed in ordinary clothes, docile, plain and quiet. Just as he hoped, Yinghui perfectly played the role of an ordinary wife-taking care of the housework and serving her husband, just like thousands of traditional women. However, after a nightmare, the wife suddenly began to refuse to eat meat and refused to prepare meat dishes for the family. In the end, she began to reject her "human" identity and regarded herself as a plant, a plant that only needed sunlight and water and refused any food or communication. And as her passive rebellion manifests itself in increasingly extreme and horrific forms, scandal, abuse, and alienation begin to spiral her into her fantasy space. In a complete metamorphosis of mind and body, her now dangerous endeavors will take Yeong-hye-impossibly, ecstatically, tragically-away from the self she once knew.