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In the ten years since he entered social work, Huan Yan has traveled extensively in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Shanghai, Beijing and other places. He has worked as a courier, night shift picker, convenience store clerk, security guard, bicycle shop salesman, clothing store salesman, gas station refueler... He has turned his daily life and the hardships of work into a sincere self-narration, recording the hard work, selfishness, warmth and integrity of an ordinary person in life. A year of picking goods at night in a logistics company left a deep physiological mark on him: "This job can also make people have bad tempers. Because of long-term late nights and overwork, people's emotional control will significantly decline... I already feel that my brain is not working well, mainly because my reactions have changed." He became sluggish and his memory began to decline." During the two years of delivering express delivery in Beijing, he "viewed himself as a delivery machine earning 30 yuan an hour. He would become angry and frustrated if he could not reach the rated output value"... But he finally realized that a life with resentment is not worth living. These work experiences, written in post-mortem recollections, are permeated with his attitude and reflection on life and the world, and are intended to express an individual's direct confrontation and affirmation of the meaning of life in the limited choices and cramped reality: many ordinary and meaningful moments in life are more decisive in life than all aspects of reality that troubles life.

"I Deliver Express in Beijing" author Huan Yan's 2024 new non-fiction work! "Like most people, I am just an ordinary person. At least before the age of forty, I worked in ordinary jobs, and my economic income dragged down the per capita income; no one has ever used 'excellent' to describe me, and no one really cares about my inner world." After "I Deliver Express in Beijing", Huan Yan turned his perspective to daily life and inner world outside of work. He talked about the impact of his childhood and his family of origin on the formation of his personality, and how an ordinary person chose to write instead of speaking in the middle of his life. He carefully, vividly and concretely sorted out the ups and downs along the way from multiple levels such as circumstances, concepts, character, and text. What was gradually completed was a rich, self-sufficient and peaceful spiritual home. Looking back, it was "the other part of life" and those "moments of being surprised by ordinary things" that supported him to continue moving forward at a low point in his life and embark on the path of writing step by step.