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"Rare Things" is a collection of novellas written by Chen Jiejie, a young writer born in the 1980s. "The Fish Chaser from the Wind Tower", "Rare Things" and "The Shy One on the Sidelines" are included in it. The protagonist of the three novels is Dai Qingtao, a middle school Chinese teacher. He lives in a prosperous city, but also has a background of running away from a county town full of "hate". His life circle seems stable and worry-free, but his emotional world is shaky and fragile. The novel reveals the spiritual situation of the new immigrants in Shenzhen who are "floating without roots" and writes about their true cowardice, desire, hardship and struggle.

This book is a collection of short stories, including 20 excellent short stories. The subject matter involves rural areas, cities and other fields. The author uses delicate brushwork and compassionate feelings to write about the persistence and betrayal of the countryside, the vanity and anxiety of the city, and creates vivid characters in the novel. The stories are wonderful, the writing skills are sophisticated, and the emotions are delicate. The entered novels have been published in major literary journals across the country, and some have been selected for inclusion in various annual anthologies, attracting much attention in the literary world.

"You Don't Know Which Way the Road Turns" is a collection of six short and medium-length novels by Shenzhen young writer Chen Jieyou, including "You Don't Know Which Way the Road Turns", "Birds on the Way Back to the Nest" and "Miss Pi". In this collection, the writer writes about the rural society in southern China that he is familiar with, the human world full of oyster flavor, and also writes about the great changes he has observed in urban and rural areas, and the realities and contradictions faced by the transforming society. He is a social observer hidden behind the novel, a country urchin, a middle-aged man who cannot return to the county town, and a female fortune teller who travels north and south... He connects three life scenes of countryside, town, and city, and expresses what he experiences, sees, and thinks gently and persistently.

Lu Aijun came to Shenzhen, and his classmate Luo Daqiang drove a truck to pick him up at Xixiang Passenger Terminal. They were classmates in elementary school. Luo Daqiang dropped out of elementary school after six years, and now opened a scrap collection station in Xixiang and worked as a small boss; Lu Aijun continued to study, and by the time he reached high school, he was already overwhelmed by math and had a headache from mathematics, but his father would not let him drop out of school. Lu Aijun's father is Lu Dayong. Lu Dayong said: "I want to go out to work at such a young age. Do you think I have never worked? When I was working in Shenzhen, you were not even a shit..." His father always kept talking further and further. Lu Aijun annoyed him more than math. Instead of annoying his father at home, it would be better to bother him with math at school.

The novel uses the growth of Shan Qinghai, a young man with a simple heart, kindness and ignorance, as a clue to string together six independent but interrelated social cases: "The Story of Bean Juice", "The Story of Fear of Light", "The Story of Escape", "The Story of Infiltration", "The Story of Gunshots" and "The Story of Matricide". The story takes "escape-return" as the main line and is fan-shaped. It radiates other characters and stories, tells the incredible destiny and life in the process of growing up, expresses people's helplessness in reality, and spiritual salvation, and expresses thoughts on human nature through the characters, panoramically expressing the life style of this era, and showing the vastness and diversity of contemporary life. Six intrinsically related stories, that is, six cases with different reasons, intersect in time and space, and represent six different ways of living and destiny of people in the current society. The focus of the work is not on the complex narrative of the case itself, nor on the pretense of mystery, but on the description of the characters' psychological twilight and the strangeness of life's destiny.