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The legendary grandmother of the family is about to pass away, and the secret history of past immigration and the treasured time are intertwined and reappeared. In order to have a tryst and avoid surveillance, a university professor exchanges identities with a similar-looking worker, staging a campus black comedy with suspense and espionage elements. The Chinese students returned to their hometown, but became strangers because of their identity and language. They even launched a speeding chase that was almost as fast as an action movie and filled with a dead end escape. This book fully demonstrates Zhang Guixing's short and medium-length skills "beyond the full-length novel", and also allows people to see another side of him that "doesn't have much Malaysian Chineseness". Diverse scenes and local experiences collide to create a vast paradise on paper, and preciously preserve the fearless exploration attitude of a literary master in his youth.

The dark self-exile of youth, the love song of youth surrounding the mythical rainforest. "The Song of Seren" presents a literary young man living in Borneo, Yoshimitsu Kataha from birth to adolescence, and his passing with three seemingly absent relationships: Anna, a physically fit classmate, Katherine, a friend's charming sister, and a female violinist who has never been seen. Young Renn goes in and out of ignorance and clarity of desire, and the throbbing of life enlightenment and the impulse of reproduction often merge into one. Under Zhang Guixing's poetic and lyrical style, an image of youth gradually took shape: "My uninterrupted self-exile also entered a dark journey. I led my body of desire several times into a tall, lush, smoky fir forest, looking for an unknown castle. But as soon as I stepped into the shadowy forest that covered the sky and the earth, I got lost in the intricate paths and the confusion of the spirits..."

Pheasant, who was expelled from his teaching position, returned to his hometown of Sarawak, Malaysia from Taiwan. He tracked his younger sister Limei into the rainforest carrying her newborn baby and had disappeared. She was warmly received by the local indigenous Dayak people and had an emotional entanglement with the Dayak girl Yanini... Under the author's gorgeous and strange words, a series of stories involved colonists, pioneers, invaders, and indigenous people, lasting for four generations of the family. Bloody, dark, and soul-stirring grievances and resentments gradually emerged.

A historical fable woven with magnificent, gorgeous and bloody words. On the eve of the Pacific War, the "Committee for the Relief of Refugees from the Motherland" was established in Zhuba Village, a Chinese settlement in Sarawak, a British colony. The whole village, young and old, enthusiastically held fund-raising activities for China's anti-Japanese war. The men and women in the village had mutual affection and had a premonition of the coming disaster. In December 1941, the Japanese army launched a full-scale invasion, and everyone associated with the "Committee for the Relief of Refugees from the Motherland", including women and children, were brutally liquidated. During the three years and eight months of occupation, the distinction between humans and animals was blurred, life disappeared easily in various horrific and cruel ways, and lust and bestiality were nakedly displayed in the Nanyang rainforest.