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This book is a collection of 14 short stories by Zhu Hui, including "Seven-story Pagoda", "Dark Red and Withered White", "Donkey Skin", "Changing Faces", "Blue and White Vase and My Hand", "Tian Shui", "Similar to a Free Fall", "Storm", "Release", etc. The work adheres to the author's consistent delicate and profound style, facing life directly and illuminating people's hearts. Among them, "Seven-Story Pagoda" won the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award. It tells the various conflicts between Tang Tang and the young Ahu couple upstairs after entering the city. It also writes about the new phenomena and problems that have emerged in the urbanization transformation of rural China, as well as the writer's deep worries and in-depth thinking about these problems. "Dark Red and Withered White" won the Purple Mountain Literature Award. Through the life experience of "I", a modern intellectual, it expresses the Chinese people's feelings of attaching importance to blood and family ties and relocation of noble land. "Similar to Free Fall" describes a bitter work experience "I" had when I first arrived at the publishing house. It fully reflects the innocuous mentality of the little people in contemporary society hidden under a "good deed" and reflects the changes of the times and the evolution of people's hearts.