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"Brand New" is the latest collection of short stories by writer Zou Zao, including seven stories such as "Little Friends", "Boy with Glasses", "Writing", "Underwater" and "Standing to the End". The author writes about the emotions, desires, pain and shadows of urban women in seven stories with different styles and forms. The women described in this book are all maverick and passionate, showing a life state that is different from ordinary people. It will be a "new" experience for people who are stuck in the mundane and trivial daily life.

The universe is like a chessboard. Every chess piece wants to eat others, but also be careful about being eaten by others. Every seemingly calm step is treacherous and dangerous. Wu Ji was not even qualified to be a chess piece, just a speck of dust on the chessboard, but fate pushed him step by step to become the chess player.

"Underwater" is a collection of short stories and short stories written by Zou Zai. It includes seven works that showcase her multi-faceted creative themes and completely different creative styles. As she said in the postscript, "Be a gentle and brave person." Her writing is sharp and inscrutable, but what flows over it is her personal observation and understanding of life and experience.

Love must hurt and be hurt by others, because you must love deeply. How to penetrate the bone marrow? It has to be sharp, penetrate deeply, and only then can I tell the other party that I am committed to it. In my novel, a girl meets a rock guitarist and falls in love at first sight. He said she was stupid. He has no money, no household registration, and no diploma. He said why do you like me? But she was moved by his music. Behind the Huangpu River is the gray sky. He said I would leave because of love. She didn't understand, but she nodded anyway. They spent a year together, and the boy really left, in the winter when it was all festival time. He said, I want a passing love. Once you have loved someone, there is a mark on you that cannot be removed. This is the love I have experienced.

This book attempts to use the externalized state of existence of most of us: seeking and not seeking, hunter and prey, to explore the inner world that is opposite, vague or parallel to it. Bad and bad meet, a seeker and a waiter. They fell in love, communicated, wrote, talked, and broke up. "This kind of sadness belongs to both of them: the sadness of not being able to get love, the sadness of not being able to release love. She is like a drowning person, waving her hands, trying to grab anything she can. Every relationship is actually a hopeful struggle in life, and only this struggle can prove that she is still alive." Just like some dreams, some conversations, accidents, poems read, novels read, a trip, a certain inconspicuous throbbing, will touch our deep truth. It is not just telling a story, it requires you to put down your guard, put down your restraints, put down your hesitation, put down your stance, sort out the forgotten or being forgotten fragments, and step into yourself before you can enter its world.

This book is a history of urban female entrepreneurship in the 21st century. It integrates the development of emerging industries and the growth of women, forming a special polyphonic expression.

We don't need Shanghai's 1930s that much anymore, at least in form. After all, 70 years have passed and we are living in a new history of Shanghai.

There is always that one person who teaches you how to love, but becomes a passer-by in your life. What we can do is learn to let go and grow from the regret of loss. When we meet the right person again, we can hug each other gracefully and calmly, and then tell them, "How long is the rest of our lives, let's go together."