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This book is a collection of short stories, including eight social fables such as "Settle Down", "Sick Medicine" and "Eating Orphans". The author, Katana Zero, combines elements of social suspense and fantasy, and uses strange and restrained writing to analyze human nature and capture people's hearts. A shabby and mysterious intermediary company, a naive grandson who buys a house from a seller, a counterfeit drug dealer with shady intentions, an only son who is greedy for money and loses his conscience, a maternal love that is only too late... Human beings shuttle back and forth between the subtle and the real, just like the world of barter in "Pawn Shop No. 8". Human nature gives rise to desire, and desire feeds back into people's hearts in the form of hope. How much are you willing to pay to achieve your wish? The eight stories are both strange and serious, warm and playful, making people want to keep reading.

A pair of police academy graduates embarked on different career paths after graduation. Wu Shilan joined the Ningcheng City Criminal Police Team and was active on the front line of criminal investigations; Chen Jiayu became a prison guard, mocking himself as staying in "the place where time passes the slowest in the world." A skeleton was unearthed at the playground renovation site of Ningcheng Middle School, which seems to be related to Wang Jiangfeng, a teacher who disappeared more than ten years ago. When he was the instructor of the school's "Chaolu" poetry club, he was suspected of harassing girls in the poetry club, but disappeared after being investigated by the police. The case back then was full of doubts. After Wu Shilan visited several times, he found that the missing clues were hidden in the place where Chen Jiayu worked... And this was just the tip of the iceberg of the crimes the two were about to face.