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This book is a collection of essays by female writer Siren over the years. Years of wandering have given her a unique life and writing. Now, the author, who continues to forge and precipitate in middle age, uses this collection called "The Runner" to tell the story of an unwilling "I" that wakes up and beats the sinking and numb "I". She will be fearless again and become the runner trusted by words again.

Siren travels between Guangdong in reality and Hubei in memory, which are her two spiritual hometowns. During these chaotic, desolate, exhausting and dangerous years, the author lived an "anonymous" life, encountering robbery, theft, fraud, frame-up and the abyss of some kind of conspiracy. He was fired for no reason, suffered discrimination, and was repeatedly excluded - there was no one trustworthy, no soul to confide in. This collection called "Anonymous" has never been separated. Each article will be switched and connected in time and space. People cannot resist the sudden displacement when writing. From Guangdong to Hubei, it was forcibly implanted in an instant. In this fusion, the author saw her complete self. In this kind of writing, she also saw clearly what kind of person she was.

Through words, the author retells and reconstructs the past and present of Huang Village in front of Xisai Mountain, his hometown, and expresses hidden compassion, sympathy and respect for the living space and living conditions of the migrant workers in Guangdong, and writes about the desolation of society and the ugliness of human nature. When writing about his hometown and relatives, the author's delicate and thick words are filled with goodwill and warmth.

Dongguan is a well-known manufacturing city. There are thousands of factories here. Countless products are shipped from here to all over the world. At the same time, there are also migrant workers from all over the country. The writer Siren went into factories in Dongguan in 2020 and 2021. He spent more than 80 days going deep into the front lines. He ate and lived with the workers in electronics factories, mold factories, jewelry factories, etc., And wrote this "Dust-Free Workshop" to record the work. The true image of workers - many people complain about "996", but they care about whether they can work overtime; they value their labor and will argue for the remuneration they deserve; at the barbecue stall after work, they also talk about dreams, hometown and love. It is precisely these workers who are invisible in the city that hold up the city and become its solid bottom.

Since leaving his hometown of Xisai, Hubei Province at the age of 27, Siren has wandered around Guangdong. Along the way, she searched for a habitat outside her hometown. In middle age, Siren has already settled in Dongguan and looks back on where he came from. The uneasiness and embarrassment of leaving home for the first time and settling in a foreign land; the excitement and embarrassment of returning to my hometown again; the past with my father; the intertwined fate of my cousin and "sorrow"; visiting the bird trainer who is about to disappear... Along the way, "I" seemed to have experienced thousands of lives, and everything was related to "me".

It is said that if you plant flowers deliberately, they will not bloom, but if you do not intend to plant willows, they will create shade. It seems to be true like this-- I graduated and walked out of school refreshed. What? Did you reach ancient times in the blink of an eye? What? Now she is a little girl who has just landed? Um! Small enough! Life in ancient times was really not that good. Everything I have done before is still the same now, and so many twists and turns have been added. However, growth is always necessary, and besides, our hearts are not small! If she is not the head wife, we will never consider it. Of course, the money is also indispensable. However, you can earn money by yourself; And that, people cannot be crooked, even if they are crooked, they have to be corrected.