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The indelible mark of pain in special years. Human nature is distorted by survival and then flattened in self-sublimation, pursuit and realization. "The Ballad of Shenzhen" describes the struggle of several young people in a coastal fishing village in Shenzhen to achieve their ultimate pursuit and leap in life. The group of people in the novel silently sang the songs in their hearts for the sake of life, building a colorful picture of the rainbow of the times. The story has ups and downs, shocking steps and interlocking links. The work won the Excellence Award in the First Cross-Strait Online Original Literature Competition.

Landlord Liu Shaotang bought the beautiful Wu Yingyue from Nanjing Yichun Hall with half a pocket of ocean and married her into his second wife. Because of Wu Yingyue's beauty, she attracted the covetation of Zhu Chengguo, nicknamed Zhu Baldzi, a bandit across the river. The story begins with a lot of contradictions. The work tells the story of a village built along the Grand Canal: Liu Village during the Republic of China. There are more than a hundred households in the village, and the four major clans of Liu, Wang, Zhang and Ni, as well as scattered families with small surnames, live here. They have lived on the canal for generations. As the saying goes, they rely on the mountains to eat and the water to drink. The quiet Grand Canal has become the lifeblood of their lives.

"I" and Shen Xiaocong both came to Shenzhen alone because they were looking for their missing girlfriends, while Li Guliang had just ended a marriage in Shanghai and came to Shenzhen to relax. The three young people met in this strange city of Shenzhen. Three men who had lost their love drank together, talked for a long time, and became friends. As a result, the three of them struggled to survive in this city, while at the same time looking for love in loneliness... The three of them respectively experienced the pain of finding love, the hardship of working in the workplace, sweat and tears, the joy of reunion and the frustration of separation. After experiencing various hardships in life, they gradually grow up in reality, become strong and mature in their hearts, still embrace beautiful longings, firmly believe in the existence of love, and understand that perseverance and search are another kind of happiness in life.

The novel begins with the criminal police team of the Baishui District Public Security Bureau arresting a fugitive drug trafficker, leading to a criminal case of dumping a body in a water tank, and unfolds the duel and contest between the criminal police captain Chen Xiaofeng and the criminal gangs Ou Yadong, Ou Baosong, and Qu Hu. A simple accidental casualty at a construction site hides the accumulation of conflicts between neighbors, brewing a murder case. There is a natural connection between chance and necessity, coincidence and human traces of the case, and the psychological description of the case is accurate. The novel tells about the latent hatred in human nature, the emergence of revenge mentality, and the calm description of the case, allowing readers to think calmly when facing conflicts.