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This book selects five of the most outstanding and exciting novellas by emerging writers, namely "Twenty-One Day at the Unity Hour", "Hidden Mountain", "Shadow Puppet", "Eating Tribulation" and "Long Time Touring the Mountains". Sweet, sour, spicy and salty, this is the most basic taste in the world. Five ultimate stories, five cruel fates. The sourness of family plunder, the sweetness of exchanging life, the bitterness of intergenerational conflict, the bitterness of running out of agencies... Qian Xing uses concise and concise writing and suspenseful and tense stories to create unforgettable five flavors of human nature. There is a cruel robbery of family affection, two women who sacrificed their lives only to marry their brothers; there are sisters who fight, but they secretly admire each other's lives; there is Fa Xiao, who exchanges lives, and can only search for the meaning of life behind a mask; there is a conspiracy, trying to use his wife and daughter to cover up Sin; there are intergenerational conflicts in a typical traditional family, under the control of the father's pathology, and the violent rebellion of the children... This is a collection of novels that intensively presents "horror" family ties and "abnormal" relationships: neglected women, favored men, hurt family ties, jealous lives, etc. In the labyrinth of the story, human nature has not reached a dead end, but has grown long-lasting and tenacious power in the cracks of oppression... Among them, "Shadow Puppet" was published as the headline of the first issue of "Harvest" in 2024, attracting strong attention from the literary world and critics.

[Legal Affairs + Female Growth + Mutual Redemption] When a female lawyer steps into the criminal defense field, she is not dealing with cases, but other people's lives. She uses benevolence and righteousness as her yardstick to measure injustice in the world, and every time she defends herself, she sacrifices her future. The female lawyer Pan Ting was tired of the "paperwork" in the big city and fled back to her hometown in a third-tier small town to work as an odd job under her master Xu Jin. In an intentional homicide case, poor Liu Changsheng killed the thief out of despair when his pig was stolen. This case inspired Pantene's compassion and sympathy for the weak in society. She often takes on some thankless cases, just for the sake of justice and courtesy. While handling a case, Xu Jin introduced her to Ji Yun, the political and legal reporter of the Evening News. The two of them went back and forth, gradually developing feelings for each other. Pan Ting thought that her life had something worth working towards, but what awaited her was a dangerous defense that put her future on the line...