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"Happy Place" focuses on the years of young workers, using the humor of a worker master full of folk interest and sincere and pungent words to describe the living world and the unpretentious human heart. "I", Bo Fu, Zi Liang, and Xiao Zizi are four young Shanghai workers, ready to make a move in Banqiao, an "enclave" steel factory near Jinling. Banqiao Steel Plant, far away from Shanghai, has its own structure; in that era of institutionalized abstinence, the master workers were accustomed to bickering and making obscene remarks; and the situation of more men than women in the steel plant always created a lusty, hungry and thirsty atmosphere in the lives of young workers... Under the constraints and desires, "I" and my little brothers in the steel plant each unfolded a passionate "legend".

Following "Tongheli" and "Happy Land", "Passenger", one of Shanghai Man's blockbuster trilogy: There are tears in the laughter, laughter in the tears, a unique writing style, and the laughter and curses are all on the paper. The Romance of Shanghai Shangjing is a worldly legend about the collision and blending of the "wild monk" of Shanghainese with the times. The thick smoke and smoke in the alley, the human stories in the passage of time; from the big city to the suburban town, the return comes with a mixture of joy and sorrow. Some people say that the women he has hooked up with are like candied haws, a long list. However, there is always only one rock sugar hawthorn on his bamboo stick, and he will never string several at the same time. "Wild Monk" is a small figure in the Shanghai city. As the name suggests, he is down-and-out, philandering, grassroots, cunning, and full of the most primitive desires in life. But at the same time, he also has the frankness, bloodiness, loyalty, fearlessness of power, perseverance, and even a somewhat unpredictable prophet who truly comes from the bottom. He has never been overwhelmed by the tide of the times. He has always lived in the logic of his own life. Until he faced the rolling torrent of reform and opening up, he experienced the waves, gained bits of wisdom, and had an epiphany about life.

An alley, a father and son, several men and women, their stories will immerse you in the strong pleasure of reading, making you unable to stop laughing and feeling sad. It recreates a Shanghai in the 1960s. This Shanghai has both vivid realistic details and a legendary atmosphere like flying immortals. The novel "Tongheli" is another excellent work about Shanghai after "Flowers". Different from the swaying style of "Flowers", "Tongheli" is characterized by using extremely humorous and Shanghai-specific language to reproduce the vibrant civilian life of Shanghai in the 1960s, with laughter and tears intertwined.