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"So Far Far Away" is one of the "Wending Central Plains" series of key works supported by the Henan Provincial Writers Association. It includes five novellas by the author: "So Far Far Away", "The Secret of the Triangle", "Going to Suzhou", "Reverse Journey" and "How to Make Movies". These novels are keenly aware of the fractures, contradictions and black humorous absurdities hidden in people's complex lives. The author uses a way of defamiliarizing familiar life to share his life experience and insights with readers. They have distinctive original qualities and have won wide acclaim from the literary world.

The protagonist Yu Yang is an ordinary poverty alleviation cadre who goes deep into poverty alleviation in impoverished villages. A series of poverty alleviation work he has done has been misunderstood and faced with many difficulties. He is persevering, focused, and highly concerned about the lives of the several farmer brothers he is assisting. Although he is an insignificant member of the vast sea of ​​people, he uses his own strength and puts in all his efforts just to accomplish something he wants to do. Although the process is difficult, personal destiny is also sublimated, reflecting a kind of "human body temperature".

"Passing Eyes" tells the story of coin collector Shen Guoyi and his disciples' journey of inheriting traditional skills and growing up arduously under the influence of the times. A group of people in the market hurt each other in the endless struggle for material desires. A hidden story of the past life is intertwined with the reality of life, which ultimately forms a strong dramatic conflict and gives people a shock to the soul.

Huaihe Hotel is the protagonist's living place and the stage of his life. Symbolically, the new building of the Huaihe Hotel is a building similar in appearance to the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai. The construction of this giant ship came to a halt, witnessing the prosperity and decline of the Huaihe Hotel's reconstruction and auction. It was stranded for a long time, and finally slowly sailed into the normal channel. The work is divided into nine chapters, like the nine rooms on a giant ship that unfolds and moves onto the stage, interpreting a series of urban scenes where power and lust are intertwined. Although each room tells a different life story, they are inextricably entangled and involved with each other. The protagonist can freely enter and leave various rooms, just like riding in a time machine. The timeline of the novel intersects back and forth, which seems dazzling, but when you close the book, you can find its strict and fascinating internal logic.