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"Maling Road" is a novel that fully reflects the writer's extraordinary historical imagination. The novel centers on two objects, the silhouette play that has disappeared in the depths of history and the opera "Maling Road" that has been sung from ancient times to the present. It tells the story of the ups and downs of the protagonist Ding Rucheng's fate. Ding Rucheng's life is exactly like the story told in the opera "Maling Road". Ding Rucheng's biological mother Yu Xiangzhi is an excellent opera actress and especially likes to sing "Maling Road". Ding Rucheng grew up listening to his father and mother singing this opera. The novel contains both realism and imagination, and the two intersect to bring readers a novel reading experience.

"Midnight Book" is a collection of short stories and short stories by writer Hu Xingxeng, which includes seven of his new works. These stories unfold their plots in a suspenseful way, with a surreal, weird and mysterious quality. They use "night" as a link to connect different life fragments of different characters, and deeply explore themes such as human nature, memory, loneliness, family, life and death. From contemplation on death events to entanglements in family relationships, from the hidden pain of youth to lifelong regret, each story in the book outlines the subtle changes in the characters' inner world with delicate writing. Through profound observation of daily life, the author shows people's different attitudes and choices when facing life challenges, revealing the intricacies and barriers between people in modern society. The language of the novel is mature and sophisticated, the plot has ups and downs, and the way the story unfolds is full of cinematic feel.

Xiao Jiu, a boy whose parents both work in funeral parlors, hates this unlucky profession, but eventually becomes an undertaker by accident. Life and death are lessons. What insights did Xiaojiu gain on the lonely road of seeing the deceased off? When leaving Dancheng, Xiao Jiu thought that he would say goodbye to the funeral home in this life. After he was released from prison, he became more and more eager to live in a completely unfamiliar city. The train station is a place where the city stays up all night. The iodine tungsten lamp at the top of the waiting hall illuminates the station square that is still noisy at night.