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A woman is a man on the stage, and a man is a woman on the stage; joys and sorrows, ups and downs in half a life, the dream life of a famous Peking Opera actress.

"The Book of the Future for Detective Novelists" is the first collection of short stories by emerging novelist Zhou Kai. Ten stories, writing about "corruption of the flesh" and "poetic purity". "At that time, I was in a very bad situation. I went to work at the radio station during the day, struggled to read the manuscript, and was always complained. At night, I wrote about such a bunch of hopeless people at home" - a detective novelist deducing his future, a magazine editor who suddenly disappeared on the eve of a party, a homeless person who built a tent next to a cemetery, a pretender who lived through seven lives under seven names... This is a work that was not considered for publication at the beginning of writing, and was written for us who are also in trouble. "True freedom must be a requirement for oneself and has nothing to do with others. Loneliness is a dilemma, but freedom is not. We always fall into the predicament of self-righteous loneliness."

She entered the palace at the age of seventeen as 'Lan Guiren'; at nineteen she was promoted to 'Yi's Concubine'; at twenty-one she was promoted to 'Yi Fei'; at twenty-two she was promoted to 'Yi Guifei'; at twenty-six she was honored as 'Mother Queen Mother'; in the forbidden area of ​​the harem, every step was startling. This large-scale palace battle novel tells the legendary life journey of an ordinary woman becoming the empress dowager.