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Jiang Fangzhou transformed into a "storyteller" and returned to the world of yesterday where literary stars shone. Walking between yesterday and today, the other side and here, Jiang Fangzhou uses words to recreate illusions, and based on massive literature research, resurrects the emotions, hearts, minds and life courses of 20 masters, turning the masters into our friends, while witnessing how the classics are intertwined with the times and their destiny, and finally born. Starting from the writer's internal perspective of "mind and experience", he re-reads and deciphers the classic codes and puts forward exclusive insights. Not only is the novel not false, it allows us to live in reality. When we borrow the "penetrating gaze" of literature to distinguish truth from falsehood and live in the truth, this is the "hero moment" that literature gives us.

"The End of the Story Has Already Been Written at the Beginning" is a collection of allegorical short stories and a book about "resisting time". The author Jiang Fangzhou, with the sincerity of a young writer and a rare calmness in this noisy era, unfolds absurd and bizarre plots and tells nine stories about escape. Each story touches the most secret and contradictory emotions in people's hearts, and is truly sharp and tangled. Escape or return? Although the nine stories of "Taipei·Self-Portrait", "Lhasa·Green Tara", "Sanya·Handcuffs", "Qingdao·Dad", "Iguazu·Aquamarine", "Wuwei·Legs", "Vienna·Closet", "Karuizawa·Hotspring", and "America·Scent" are independent, the characters are connected with each other. They are either friends, teachers and students, or past lovers. The supporting character of the previous story is the protagonist of the next story. A small thing that happened in the previous story changed the fate of the protagonist in the latter story.

"I Admit I Have Never Experienced Vicissitudes of Life" is a selection of various articles published by the author in the past five years. In the book, the author chooses to temporarily avoid all kinds of general discussions, retreats to reflect on his writing and growth process, and observes a generation of young people kidnapped by the times. Their childhood disappeared early and their adolescence awakened prematurely. They prematurely discovered the hypocrisy of the adult world, and were thrown into a world full of competition and struggle prematurely. They tried to describe group portraits and analyze specimens. At the same time, after seventeen years of writing, I rediscovered the meaning of writing, thought about the relationship between the writer and the times, and revealed my inner literary map.

This book contains four stories in total. They take place in distant universes and unknown eras. They are full of fantasy and seem distant from our world. The planet named "Southern Cross" appears throughout the book. It is an interstellar traveler and collects various wonders in the universe. In "Lay a Giant Egg on the Shore", the Southern Cross casually delivers the "gift of civilization". In "Walking with the Only One Who Knows Why Stars Shine", the fate and choices of the Southern Cross echo the dilemma and hope faced by mankind under the global plague. In "Time Reconstructed in Venice", time no longer flows from the past to the future, but returns to its chaotic nature. In "Strangers from the Border", the Southern Cross becomes a symbol and ritual, quietly listening to the truths and lies being told in a remote fortress, and watching how history repeats itself. When the world is out of order and people are terrified, the four protagonists in the novel are lonely and calm. They choose to look up at the stars and share secrets that only they understand with the Southern Cross.