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This book is the first collection of Zhang Xiaozhou's cultural commentary essays over the years. García Márquez has repeatedly explained that the so-called "magic realism" is either fabricated or living reality. Similarly, when we use words like time travel, fantasy, and tomb robbing to describe reality, it is not false at all. We are talking about the reality of today's China. The Tower of London outside Suzhou City, Iijima Ai in Liulichang. Shaolin piano, patriotic rice dumplings, turtle soup for the soul. With a love in hand, a generation went there to act coquettishly with each other. Faith is flying in the void, the golden mountain is confronting the sacred mountain, and everything turns away from the suffering so peacefully. The times are like silicone swelling in everyone's chest, making it impossible for you to grasp them with one hand. How to love? I saw your evil smile. An absurd book about prosperous China, a sketchbook of contemporary Chinese society and cultural landscape.

Selected by veteran football commentator Zhang Xiaozhou with more than ten years of football commentary, it is one of the few football texts in China worthy of collection and publication. How many World Cups can there be in life? In "Born at Midnight", Zhang Xiaozhou explores the secrets of football with his wild, sharp and poetic writing style. The football field is like a wildly rotating, all-or-nothing roulette wheel. People do not hesitate to bet on passion, desire, money, life, and country. What football ultimately establishes is an eternal youth republic of young people. This book is not responsible for explaining the rules of football. It has no technical and tactical knowledge or fantasies about formations, and it is not intended to add clichés to various debates. What is here is the deepest love of a die-hard fan, the flying youth, the frivolous years that cannot be looked back, and countless sleepless nights of ecstasy or chest beating.