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"Twenty Years of Prosperity Dream" is based on the experience of Guangdong Customs Secretary Zhou Yongyou from prosperity to failure in 20 years. It is a work that describes real people. The work revolves around the narration of the protagonist's twenty-year prosperity finally becoming a dream, and unfolds the description of the vast social life in the late Qing Dynasty, from the imperial court to the people.

"The Rise and Fall of an Official" takes Yuan Shikai as the protagonist and describes political events such as the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, the Reform Movement, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Constitutional Struggle. It shows Yuan Shikai's ups and downs in the officialdom from his rise to power. It profoundly exposes and criticizes the shocking darkness and corruption of the imperial court and officialdom in the Qing Dynasty at an important historical juncture of national life and death.