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Against the grand historical background of the Age of Discovery, a beautiful Chinese woman traveled to the South Seas. The tsunami took away her memory. She wandered around the sea and on the islands, was bullied, and abandoned. She suffered childbirth, illness, and prison. She blinded her eyes just to find the lost memory. She is willing to spend her whole life searching for her past. Chunchi finally failed to find the shell hiding her memory in the vast sea, but she did not leave her story to the vastness. She is regarded as a saint. She is the richest woman in the world. Pirates, singers, eunuchs, tribal leaders, and Western priests, their destinies intersect in the beautiful scenery of Nanyang.

This book is a brand new collection of short and medium-length stories by Zhang Yueran. Nine stories, a group of lonely men and women, carrying an unspeakable past, persistently looking for the fire in life. These characters are innocent and sophisticated, cold and passionate, sensitive and tough. They do evil because they punish themselves, they become suspicious because they believe, and they betray because they love. Zhang Yueran writes sharply and with rich poetic flavor, contemporary fables about love and loneliness, money and talent, cultural prejudice and class separation. The glory and shadow of our era are also vividly revealed on the page.

"The Moment of Enlightenment" is a novel lesson carefully written by Zhang Yueran for all readers and creators. Various questions involving reading and writing: What motivates a writer to write a novel? What makes readers embark on a journey of thought in limited time and space? Why can popular novels touch more people? Why should secondary characters also be fleshed out? The book disassembles 60 novel texts, sorts out writing methods and techniques, establishes an order belonging to the writer, uses limited stories to help us understand the world and others, and overcome the roadblocks set up in the journey of life. At the same time, it comprehensively analyzes and interprets the works of five contemporary writers, including Haruki Murakami, Bolaño, and Munro, and looks at the love and pain, coldness and compassion written by contemporary novelists, helping us find the coordinates of where we are in time and space, so as to better understand ourselves. In this noisy era, reading and writing have become more personal, returning to a need, an instinct. Therefore, we all have equal opportunities. Everyone can follow the light emitted by the novel, discover their own lost things, and give them life again through reading and writing.

"Carp·Writing Lesson" is a book of faith for literary youth. We respectfully invite some explorers of contemporary literature to talk in this book about the things that matter to them when they create. Tang Nuo, Zhang Dinghao, Shuang Xuetao, and Chen Wei started from their own experiences and shared their experiences in language, reading, and self-training. Yan Ge, who is at the forefront of the Western literary scene, sends us back information from there; Qian Jianan's translation of the Iowa Writers' Workshop director's article on creative writing courses provides an inside perspective on this legendary project. Sheng Yun, a writer for English publications such as the London Review of Books, talked about the key points when writing non-fiction works for foreign media; Hong Kong writer Chen Haoji, who has brought Chinese mystery writing to the top again, and famous domestic science fiction writer Fei Deuterium shared their respective experiences in the field of genre writing. McEwan was interviewed by Huang Yuning, his translator and editor in China, detailing his creative process and providing advice on how to transition from writing short stories to full-length novels. In this book, the final volume of the "Anonymous Writer Project" is grandly unveiled, and the names of the contestants who were kept secret in the two volumes of "Carp Anonymous Writer" and "Carp Time Capsule" are also announced, bringing a perfect end to this literary competition that aims to "return to the origin of writing, only looking at the works, not the writers."

[The original novel of the movie "Qiao Yan's Mind" starring Zhao Liying and Xin Zhilei, and the original novel of the TV series "Let Me Shine" starring Zhao Lusi and William Chan. ][Xu Yan × Qiao Lin, we are sisters, rivals, and mirrors of each other. ]Under the background of the family planning policy, the Qiao family's abortion plan failed, and the Qiao family's second daughter Qiao Yan was born. Because of the birth of a child, his father was fired from his workplace, and the family fell into great pain. As a reasonable being, her sister Qiao Lin still lives with her parents, while Qiao Yan, a superborn child, has lived with her grandma since she was a child. Different circumstances created different personalities of the two sisters, and the two embarked on completely different paths... The story begins when Xu Yan, who changed her name, receives her sister Qiao Lin from her hometown. This article also includes eight stories: "Lake", "Animal-Shaped Fireworks", "Mana", "Enteromorpha", "Home", "Wedding Dress", "Arab Mother-in-Law" and "I Came by the Light of the Fire", which tell the story of the complex and complex relationships between women.