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A beer dad from a credit investigation gang + a hot soy milk mom with a titanium shovel. The authorities forcibly formed a team. They bickered and solved the case. They were filmed all the way from the vegetable market to an overseas money laundering center. They successfully plundered 300 million black accounts and were even invited to the TV station for commendation!

South Kunlun and North Qilian, the eight hundred miles of vast sea are uninhabited. There have been business trips here, but they are just long ancient roads and faint camel bells, adding a touch of life to the quiet Qaidam. There was trading here, and it was just a simple tea-horse market. There are rich mineral deposits here, but the earth has been sleeping for thousands of years, and the Qaidam Basin is shrouded in a veil of mystery. There is vast land here, but it is virgin land that has not been cultivated for many years. A true and absurd story unfolds in this vast and mysterious land.

"Like Flame Like Ashes" contains a total of 11 novels written by Cheng Ji in recent years. The women in Cheng Ji's works are in a transitional stage where they have bid farewell to the childishness of girls but have not yet fully entered mature women. They have the vitality of vigorous growth and have experienced the fatigue and confusion of the adult world for the first time. They have a more mature and profound understanding of love, desire and life than young girls. In every relationship, they are not the objects of passive waiting and bitter crying. They long for love to happen, endure loneliness, and honestly face their own body desires. Xin Shu, who forgets his old love and goes alone to the party, Xu Xiaoyun, who cheats in middle age, Ning Yuan, who longs for comfort after mastectomy, Zhi Xia, who is looking for her husband's organ donor, Chen Lu, who wants to escape from his original life and travel across the ocean... We can find more or less our own shadows in each of them. The desire for love, the search for self, the rebellion against morality, the fear of loneliness, the addiction to sex, and those greedy, fragile, and mask-failed moments. As Cheng Ji said, this is not just a novel about women and love. With the help of this theme, Cheng Ji uses blade-like strokes to dissect the hidden things in daily life, those corners of human nature that have not yet been reached and illuminated by light. "The characters in these stories face more than just love. Things are rarely what they seem. Love is related to our family relationships, friendships, death, politics, and our understanding of love and freedom."