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[A sweet story about a loyal dog running in both directions] Li Yinbei, who had been conceited for most of his life, did not realize until he met Xu Nuo that the most difficult chess game in his life to solve was her promise. The world of mortals is nothing but a self-inflicted trap. I will love you until death.

Criminal investigation captain Li Yang and undercover Yuan Zimeng cooperated inside and outside, gradually uncovering the tip of the iceberg of Jiang Wenle's criminal group. However, as the investigation deepens, one mystery after another comes one after another... The uncertainty of Liu Qin's life and death, the disappearance of the mysterious housekeeper, and the mysterious disappearance of cash at the transaction site of Jiang Wenle all make the case more confusing. Yuan Zimeng had a complicated emotional entanglement with Jiang Wenle during her undercover period, but she always adhered to her mission and handcuffed Jiang Wenle with her own hands. However, the case did not end there. A bigger suspense quietly emerged - where did Jiang Wenle's housekeeper go? Does he hide any deeper secrets? The police battle continues, and new challenges have quietly arrived.

Ning Hanlin has deep feelings for Xu Ran, but he has never been able to win her heart. In the intertwining of the dream and reality of the seaside villa, he was accidentally involved in the copyright battle for "No Life", and started a fierce competition with bookseller Lu Xiaofeng and others. As the plot progresses, Ning Hanlin discovers that there is an unknown secret hidden behind Xu Ran's departure, and his relationship with Qian Huan becomes more and more complicated. In this whirlpool full of lies and betrayal, Ning Hanlin continues to struggle, trying to find the truth and himself. Can he uncover all the mysteries and find his own happiness and destination?

Yao Xingchen: Lu Lifeng's father studies antiques, his mother studies antiques, and he studies antiques by profession! You want me to marry a 28-year-old antique? Lu Lifeng: This woman's color is too strong, her shape is wrong, she is superficial and rough without any connotation, she is a fake. If you want me to marry her, I might as well study ancient corpses all my life. A pair of enemies with completely opposite personalities, a stereotyped archaeologist and a cheerful female model, such as Chanel paired with Fengyoujing, with different horoscopes and conflicting personalities. Who can tell me how to pair CHANEL with Fengyou Essence?

The hottest new star in China, Su Qinian, was surrounded by scandals for a while. Illegitimate birth, wrong love, betrayal. After experiencing the separation of life and death, she went to France, looking for and longing for some kind of relief. Yan Shui decided to only protect her in this life. Although the two had too much experience, they were destined to be complicated and entangled in love and hate. The haze that has been planted since childhood, the premature death of my mother, and the cold eyes after being adopted by close relatives. When I was growing up, I met the strong and pure Li An and the black and violent Lin Mo. Su Qinian is like a sunny plant growing in extreme darkness. She is pure and coquettish in nature, with extreme love and hate, paranoia and division. The photographer Shen He, who had been deeply rooted in her heart since childhood and who gave her endless warmth and protection when they reunited, also gave her the most thorough and profound despair, violence, jealousy, greed, anger, selfishness, fickleness, hypocrisy, and hidden desires. The frailties and gloom of human nature. Is it only darkness that can bring the possibility of light?

Ding Xiaomin and Dai Jianhui were once lovers. After the breakup, Ding Xiaomin tried hard to get out of the gloom, but unexpectedly found that Dai Jianhui was still looming in her life. By chance, Dai Jianhui asked Ding Xiaomin for help, and the two rekindled their old relationship while getting along. However, just as Ding Xiaomin was immersed in the joy of reunion, Dai Jianhui suddenly disappeared, leaving her to face the emotional waves alone. At the same time, the relationship between friends Liang Shuxin and Yin Rui has also quietly changed, and their love story is also full of twists and turns. The emergence of Han Jian has added new variables to this complex emotional entanglement. After experiencing a series of misunderstandings, struggles and growth, Ding Xiaomin finally understood that happiness needs to be fought for and cherished by oneself. And what kind of emotional storm will Dai Jianhui's sudden return set off between them?

Reuniting with the young man who had a crush on her many years ago, Li Lubai confessed that she would pursue Kuang Nanheng this time. Someone asked her what her relationship was with Kuang Nanheng, and she replied: "I am Kuang Nanheng's friend now, and it's hard to say in the future." She was angry with her imaginary enemy, and Li Lubai bluntly said that she would be responsible for it. "You have no development partner, it's easy, I will be your partner." A smile gradually appeared in Kuang Nanheng's eyes, he tried his best to restrain the raised corners of his mouth, and nodded. The obsession with the death of his brother, the pressure of reorganizing the family, and the harsh working environment. When Li Lubai thought she could no longer go on with him, Kuang Nanheng asked, "Don't you want me anymore?"

In the second year after her divorce, Jian Jing, a has-been film star, participated in a low-grade large-scale love TV series in order to make ends meet. Who would have expected that she met her ex-husband at the scene. As a newly popular director, her ex-husband would deign to direct such a low-grade romance drama. Jian Jing thought that he was here to cause trouble for her. In fact, this is indeed the case. When Jian Jing and her co-artists were speculating for CP, Zhou Zhijing always deliberately made things difficult for each other, causing their progress to be stuck. When Jian Jing drew the intimacy card with her co-artist, Zhou Zhijing hid the card, causing Jian Jing to be embarrassed and unable to get off the stage. Jian Jing, who was trying to make a living by hiding her love story, angrily asked Zhou Zhijing if he could let her go. Unexpectedly, Zhou Zhijing, who had always been arrogant, surrendered for the first time: "It's not that I won't let you go, it's that I can't let you go. Sister, I can't live without you."

When he was 10 years old, there was always a little follower behind Yin Jiali who sweetly called him: "Brother Jiali." He was cold-faced, arrogant, and pretended to be cool, until possessiveness slowly sprouted in his heart. At the age of 18, the little follower became a heartthrob that everyone loved. Under the orange sunset, he pulled her into his arms: "Yan Youqing, I'm not that easy to get rid of." Bang bang bang - the deafening sound, who's heartbeat. "Summer is like that. The sea breeze blows up the hem of a girl's skirt and blows over the young man's heart."

My name is Jingli, and I am a cannon fodder. He looks like cannon fodder, lives like cannon fodder, and even dies like cannon fodder. Yes, I died suddenly while reading a novel. After my death, because I had great resentment towards the ending of the book, I was contracted by the system and became the chosen one... Cannon fodder! Okay, I've put my cards on the table. Although the system has made me the vicious female supporting character in the book, I have no complaints. As long as I can save my life, I will really be grateful. But... System: You cannot divorce the villain. Keiri: But he wants to kill me every day! System: You have to talk to the villain and use your actual actions to warm him and move him to knock him down! Jingli: But I get scared and cry every time, my legs shake, I just want to live whimpering - Lu Zhi: She doesn't divorce me, but she still cooks for me, flirts with me, and hugs me. Does she like me? Um! Definitely! A certain deer folded his hands and looked arrogantly: Since I don't love you, then I will be merciful and reluctant to accept you, and I will sleep in the same room with you tonight. Keiri:?

[Modern Marriage + Remarriage and True Love + Marriage First and Love Later] Her husband was killed in a car accident when he cheated on his female colleague. Zhen Zhu became a widowed single mother with a baby. Due to her husband's plan, Zhen Zhu lost her place to live and had to take her daughter to live in her mother and stepfather's home. Divorced and unemployed, Zhen Zhu's life suddenly became rough. Until he met Gu Chengxiao - he said: "Sign this contract, and when my son turns sixteen, I will give you your freedom and give you a sum of money." The reason why he chose her was very special, because she was so ordinary, so ordinary that he was confident that he would never fall in love with her. But at that time, none of them expected that no matter how ordinary a woman is, there will be some lovely moments, and no matter how aloof a man is, there will be a tender side.

[Criminal Psychology + High IQ Crime + Infinite Reversal] My name is Han Lu and I am a criminal police officer. Because of a car accident, he lost most of his memory. During the days of treatment, I always recalled that I had participated in some cases, such as the woman who was sealed in the concrete at the construction site, the neighbor who committed mass murder, the female college student who committed suicide on the balcony of the dormitory... But my doctor said that none of these cases were found to be serious! What's even more incredible is that the people who committed the crime alongside me in my memory also disappeared... Until later, I discovered a clue. These cases may not be fake. Who am I?

[Time Travel + Rebirth + Period Literature + Career + Slow Heat] When you open your eyes and dress up as a scumbag who was in love in the 1980s and has a huge sum of money, what should you do? Su Fuling, who died suddenly after staying up late shopping, opened her eyes and saw a fair-skinned boy, reaching out to ask for money. This directly triggered her sensitive word - what a big face! When she was about to teach the man in front of her a harsh lesson, Su Fuling suddenly realized that something was wrong with the scene in front of her? ! What's the slogan on this wall? "In the 1980s, go to university, go to night school, go to a place where you can get a diploma." "With reform and opening up, we must pave the way for China's future." Looking at the famous Pengcheng Railway Station behind her, Su Fuling realized that she had traveled through time. Travel into this era of opportunity. Su Fuling decisively kicked the scumbag over and fired the first shot against fate. She stood at the forefront of the times and set up stalls, shops, and factories... She successfully purchased a house and settled in Pengcheng, and eventually returned to her hometown in glory, becoming a big boss in the construction of her hometown, and rectifying her name.

The harbor named after Qiao Mingzhu exploded, and she lost her parents in this disaster, but that was not all. The loss of contact with her boyfriend and the embarrassment of her relatives made Qiao Mingzhu unexpected. And Tang Wenting's sudden appearance caught her even more off guard. He was once an illegitimate child and now a Hong Kong boss with a complicated identity. He showed all his kindness to Qiao Mingzhu from the moment he appeared. She went from disbelief at the beginning to temptation to acceptance with trepidation, and finally fell. It turned out that he had been running towards me, and he spent a long time climbing the rock to get there.

Seven years ago, Shen Mai watched helplessly as his mentor died in the dark night of the entertainment industry, and the murderer disappeared like a ghost. She sealed her pain by retreating, but she couldn't escape the entanglement of fate. Seven years later, her brother Zuo Luo returned with a storm in the music industry and pointed his sword at her old company - "The real murderer is hidden deep inside." In order to solve the red mystery, Shen Mai changed identities and explored the neon abyss with his brother. Together, the two went through the ups and downs of the entertainment industry, capital games, and unpredictability of people... When the truth was like a sharp knife coming out of its sheath, she discovered that the sharpest tip was aimed at an unexpected target. Behind the neon, who is controlling the chess game of life and death?

This book contains a total of 31 short stories and short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thereby showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying the author's understanding of human nature. The plot of this work is simple and the language is concise. Although it is a historical novel based on old themes, it is endowed with a certain meaning and describes the people at the bottom of society who are tenaciously struggling to survive. It is not a historical novel in a simple sense. We cannot judge whether everyone's choice is absolutely right or wrong. We should treat the choice of survival and human nature rationally. Everyone may have been to Rashomon. The whole book depicts the contradictory relationship between survival and human nature, and each novel is thought-provoking.

This book is a collection of novels that combines suspense, reasoning and discussion of human nature. It contains multiple independent and interrelated stories. The author uses delicate writing and exquisite layout to lead readers into a world full of mysteries. In "Shadow Study", police officer Chen Yan and mysterious detective Ge Lin jointly investigate the mysterious death of the rich Zhao Mutian, uncovering the hidden sin and revenge behind it; "Death Bee" tells the story of an entomologist who was murdered while cultivating a new type of bee, and the truth is intertwined with the secrets of the bee colony; "The Mystery of British Black Tea" revolves around the poisoning of a corporate heir, revealing the dark side of power and desire; "The Lost Weapon" focuses on a seemingly impossible secret room murder, and the disappearance of the murder weapon becomes the key to solving the mystery. Each story is full of reversals and depth, exploring the complexities of hatred, justice and human nature. Ge Lin's wisdom and Chen Yan's persistence present readers with exciting reasoning feasts.

"In Prime Minister Fei's Living Room" is a satirical novel, which is included in the anthology "Jane Dropped from a Dangerous Nest". The story takes the living room of the philanthropist Prime Minister Fei as the core scene. Through a hypocritical "philanthropy" performance, it exposes the greed and moral decay of the bureaucratic class during the Republic of China. On the surface, he talks about morality, but in fact, he is greedy and greedy, forming a strong contrast overtly and covertly. Also included are "The Gills of the Iron Fish" and "The Three Doctors". "The Gills of the Iron Fish" is set against the backdrop of the Anti-Japanese War and tells the tragic story of Mr. Lei, a scientist, who saves the country through science and technology. "The Three Doctors" is included in the novel collection "Humans Are Not Human". It describes three doctors who returned from studying abroad and exposed the hypocrisy and academic corruption of intellectuals in the Republic of China.

A legendary novel that tells the story of the palace secrets of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, Empress Zhao Feiyan, and her sister Hede. The novel uses an erotic narrative to reveal court affairs, and also describes Zhao Feiyan's life trajectory from dancer to queen. Its language is beautiful and the plot is ups and downs. It creates the genre of "palace novels" and has a profound impact on later generations of literature. It is a special text for studying novels and women's history in the Han Dynasty.

A selection of Hu Yepin's short stories include "Pearl Earrings", "Parents", "Snow-White Parrots", "Fighting" and "A Village". The Pearl chapter is about the concubine of a rich gentleman's family who lost her earrings. Before going to bed at night, they discovered that the pendant was missing, and the whole family went out to help his wife find the pearl pendant. Finally, the youngest and helpless boy was arrested and sent outside to be beaten. The master, his wife and all the concubines were very satisfied with this ending. The parents' chapter tells the story of the protagonist being laid off. The parrot chapter is about a parrot that is used to being kept at home and refuses to fly away no matter what. The two chapters, Fighting with Arms and A Village, are very miserable. They are the two heaviest chapters in the entire collection. They were born in an era when wars are raging and safety is worth ten thousand dollars. You have no control over your own destiny. Life and death are random. Sometimes it's a village, sometimes a village is missing. The wheel of life continues. The complete collection is arranged in a progressive manner. Life has its bitterness and sweetness, and more often than not, the bitterness is overwhelming.

"Collection of Yu Dafu's Classic Novels" collects classic short stories by Yu Dafu, an important writer of modern Chinese literature. Yu Dafu is a pioneer of the May Fourth New Literature Movement and one of the founders of modern Chinese romantic literature and autobiographical novels. His novels are famous for their sentimental lyricism, self-exposure, and delicate psychological descriptions, which profoundly reflect the spiritual dilemma and depression of the times among Chinese intellectuals in the early 20th century.

Zhang Lanxin graduated from the Chinese Department of the Provincial Normal University. She has a beautiful appearance, is good at dancing, and knows martial arts and self-defense. He took the initiative to teach at the branch of Longmen Town Middle School. By tracing back to the "Flower Grave", he showed a series of events that happened in Longmen Town from the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty to the liberation period, and painted a picture of the characters and customs of Longmen Town as it changed through history. In the process of understanding the revolutionary struggles of her fathers, in helping left-behind girls, in fighting against evil forces, and in the pursuit of love, Zhang Lanxin finally grew up and found her own happiness.

Although Lin Shu, who had just entered the workplace, was lucky enough to work in a large company where his uncle worked, he also met his annoying boss Dong Furan because of this "luck". Fortunately, the handsome senior Yang Yushi in the cafe downstairs is a cute and enthusiastic boy. Will Lin Shu, who is spinning between these two men, become a happy couple with the indifferent manager or have a long-term relationship with the charming young man?

Someone used my mystery novel to kill people? This cannot be tolerated under any circumstances! One after another murder cases, a mysterious religious organization, a girl who behaves strangely, a missing suspect, the memory that was blocked twenty years ago, what will be the truth waiting for me?

This book is a realistic novel. It mainly tells the story of a young man named Jian Hao who struggles all the way for the development of his hometown. Tongguanyi is a prosperous small town. However, in the past 20 years, the economy has been slack and the young population has been lost due to migrant work. Only the elderly and children are left in the countryside. Only by re-developing the economy can we retain people. So, headed by Jian Hao, some young people with ideas and the courage to struggle appeared. In order to revitalize the rural economy, they struggled and grew all the way... They experienced failures and encountered difficulties along the way. Some gave up, while some persisted. In the end, some opened B&Bs, and some became bosses... Jian Hao and the heroine Xia Youchen experienced growth together, from strangers to familiarity, to facing and solving difficulties together, and finally gained love for each other, and finally succeeded in regaining the prosperity of Tongcanyi.

A man who went to the seaside dunes to collect insects accidentally stumbled into a sand nest where only one woman lived. He was imprisoned there and could only dig in the sand day after day. He tried many ways to escape, but all failed. Later, when the man is finally given the chance to escape, he has given up trying. The novel presents surreal and incredible plots in a realistic way, depicting the boring absurdity of ordinary people's daily lives, as well as the essence and truth of life that exists in it. The novel was published in 1962 and won the Yomiuri Literature Prize the following year. It was adapted into a movie in 1964 and was translated and published in more than 30 countries and regions. Won the French 1967 Best Foreign Novel Award.

The work takes two female high school students as the protagonists and tells the story of the good, evil, joy and sorrow of several ordinary families in the 1990s from the perspectives of victims and witnesses. My father used me in exchange for benefits, and the bargaining chip was my disappearance. My mother cried and finally fell silent. Anyway, there is nothing between us except blood relationship. Anyway, as long as they have a younger brother, they will be a happy family. I don't feel angry, I just plan to live an ordinary life like a maggot. ... At this moment, I am sitting in the sewer writing this, and I always have a strange feeling in my heart. It seems like I have always belonged here, in the past, now, and in the future. My connection to the world above me had been severed. The minus sign that had always appeared in my life finally came to an end and was marked by an equal sign. Behind the equal sign, I see "zero". In 1994, my life was about to start over.

Bai Yang, a junior in college, and his girlfriend disappeared in 2017. A year later, two migrant workers found their bodies in an abandoned brick kiln under Fenghuang Mountain. The real murderer remains at large. The victim's family, as well as Bai Yang's two brothers Yang Fan and Han Fei, have been running around to avenge the deceased. After years of efforts to no avail, Yang Fan suddenly had a whim and wrote the case into a suspense novel, hoping that in this way the truth would be revealed to the world...

A masterpiece of hard-core suspense reasoning created by writer Xi Yun. From the perspective of the psychiatrist "I" and the mysterious detective E Qizhe, the fatal mystery hidden behind six "doors" is revealed. Every door is a carefully designed psychological maze, and every murder case is wrapped in a twisted game of human nature. When silence becomes the only testimony, the truth wanders on the edge of madness and reason... This work, which faces the abyss of human nature, can be called the dark masterpiece of the Chinese version of "Psychological Crime".

This is a social mystery novel that focuses on women's safety and social issues. The background of the story is set in the fictional Xinhai City, China, and the truth is gradually revealed through the experience of British-Chinese Gao Chuan investigating air crash survivor Yu Xiaoxue. On November 2, 2019, an air crash occurred in Xinhai City. The only survivor, Yu Xiaoxue, had many doubts. Three years later, the crime rate in Xinhai City increased, and a large number of immigrants poured into Xinhai City. The Xinhai police asked Detective Gao Chuan to assist in the investigation. Through the investigation of survivor Yu Xiaoxue, Gao Chuan discovered the story behind and the contrary truth. The novel focuses on a number of bizarre cases, including the sudden online death of the deceased Chen Zheng and others, the mystery of the identity of the plane crash survivor Yu Xiaoxue, and multiple serial murders caused by revenge and social conflicts. These cases not only involve complex criminal methods, but also explore the conflict between human nature, social expectations and the legal system.

Published in 1937, this book was Woolf's last novel published during her lifetime, and it was also her best-selling work during her lifetime. This book tells the history of the Padgett family for more than fifty years, from the unpredictable spring of 1880 to a summer night dance in the 1930s. The personal lives of the characters are placed on the stage, through dialogue and psychological activities, while various historical events serve as the background, looming. Along with the characters in the book, we grow, lose, are moved, regret, endure, and are heartbroken. Completely different from the author's previous novel "The Waves", this book focuses on the description and presentation of reality and deliberately downplays fantasy and poetry. Behind this effort is Woolf's ambition and courage to innovate in her prime years of creation.

[Criminal Investigation + Massacre of a Family + Crime committed by an acquaintance] The secrets of criminal investigation author Chen Meng's serious crimes, the third season of the Eyes of the Ning Yuan series begins! I'm a special case detective. He is also the most common among thousands of criminal police officers. This is a collection of crimes and a collection of memories. In this novel, there is me, my master, and my best brother. They are just like me, unique and ordinary. We once scolded Fang Qiu and were high-spirited. We once peeled off cocoons and broke through the fog to chase the murderer. We also once felt sad and hesitated. My master once said to me: We walk on the boundary between day and night. We are lookers of the clear sky and gazers of the abyss. The scorching sun and cold winter are hidden in our eyes. This book records four cases, including a cruel juvenile crime, a murder of a relative in anger, and a villain who took advantage of people's empathy to commit heinous crimes... I named them respectively: Burning Summer, Dark Corner of the Day, Hidden Rope, and Silent Flame.

Eighteen-year-old Yan Yuting and Wang Jinheng met by chance in the library, and their love grew secretly. However, fate's tricks made them miss it again and again. For ten years, Yan Yuting raised her and Wang Jinheng's illegitimate son Xiaobao alone, burdened with worldly pressure and inner suffering. Wang Jinheng went to England and was trapped in the quagmire of family marriage. When the two finally decided to face each other bravely, Wang Jinheng was suddenly framed and his grandfather Feng Zhao was accused of killing his fiancée, and was forced to fake his death to prove his innocence. In this intricate conspiracy, Zhou Yu's true face gradually emerged... Yan Yutai persisted in despair, and finally waited for Wang Jinheng's return. Can they break through the obstacles and make up for the ten years they missed? A contest about love, family affection and justice is quietly taking place...

This book tells the tortuous journey of Kong Yiji and his fiancée Xiang Jinghui decorating their new house in preparation for their wedding. From choosing Huiyang Decoration Company to encountering project delays and substandard quality, to the turmoil in their cooperation with their second uncle's decoration team, the two went through twists and turns. During the process, Kong Yi and Xiang Jinghui had many disputes over decoration issues... With the help of the new team of Huiyang Decoration Company, the decoration project was successfully completed.

This book is Beauvoir's debut novel and is also regarded as an autobiographical documentary novel. Pierre and Françoise are a couple who invite young Xavier into their relationship. The elegant Françoise, the young Xavier, and Pierre, who loves these two women, try to establish a harmonious trio between the three. "Three people who try their best to love each other are more colorful..." But the trio evolved into a "love triangle", full of jealousy, and hidden suspicion and absurdity everywhere. Françoise, who had been tortured for defending Xavier, finally made a decision. Beauvoir spent her whole life practicing the model of lovers described in it, and was criticized for it. In this book, Beauvoir explores a philosophical dilemma that has troubled her since the 1920s: the opposition between self and other.

On the smoke-filled battlefield in Vietnam, a German shepherd named Heibei, with his extraordinary courage and wisdom, fought side by side with his dog handler Davis and repeatedly performed extraordinary feats. However, the cruelty of war not only tests human will, but also quietly changes Heibei's fate. When the armistice order is issued, Heibei faces the desperate situation of being abandoned. Can it escape the fate of being euthanized? As time goes by, Heibei's descendant, I, emerges in the military camp and becomes the new generation of "Dog King". Just when I thought life would be as peaceful as water, the appearance of a mysterious foreigner broke my tranquility. He is actually Davis, Heibei's former dog handler! His arrival not only revealed a dusty past, but also brought an astonishing secret: Heibei did not die unexpectedly, but miraculously survived and had offspring.

Published in 1922, this book was the beginning of Woolf's use of stream-of-consciousness techniques and was regarded as the prelude to a series of subsequent masterpieces. The novel is set in England. From a female perspective, it uses scenes and fragments full of symbolic meaning to outline the short life of a sensitive young man, Jacob Flanders: childhood at the seaside, studying in Cambridge, love experience in London, traveling in Greece, and finally dying in the war. With this book, Woolf's reputation as a novelist was further recognized, and her creative characteristics of downplaying plot and action and focusing on the inner world of her characters began to attract people's attention.

This book is the last novel written by Italian writer Umberto Eco before his death. It provides a profound analysis and criticism of modern journalism through a conspiracy-laden newspaper experiment. In Milan in 1992, several journalists joined a daily newspaper under preparation, "Tomorrow Daily", ambitious to show their talents in new positions. In the era of booming television and radio, it is self-evident that newspapers are lagging behind. Therefore, "Tomorrow Daily" is determined to tell "events that will happen tomorrow" and to have some "foresight" in the field of news through in-depth investigation. They carefully researched past news and tried to compile a simulated "first issue." However, during the investigation, various realities emerged unquestionably.

In 1865, the American Civil War was coming to an end, and the South was about to be defeated. Inman, a wounded soldier of the Confederate Army, dragged his broken body and soul, trudging alone in the apocalypse where right and wrong were reversed and ghosts were rampant. He had only one obsession in his heart: Cold Mountain. His home. His lover - Ada. Meanwhile, in Inman's cold mountains, his Ada was on another journey of life and death. The comfortable first half of life has become an old dream. Her father is dead, her lover is nowhere to be found, and her home is in ruins. The only things she can trust are her own hands and Ruby, another girl who meets her by fate. In this cruel world where there is no man to rely on and no hero to save, the two women can only rely on each other to support their own refuge - Cold Mountain. The flowers are gone and the winter is harsh. Everyone is struggling, trekking, and searching in this ice and snow: where is the cold mountain? Where is the Peach Blossom Spring?

"Faith": I am a realist who always likes to say "how much does this thing cost?" People around me didn't understand me, and gradually kept away from me. My younger sister even said nasty things to me: The "reality" my sister believes in is actually a cult, right? Just at this time, an old classmate asked me to form a new religion to make money. In order to live a normal life, I decided to join and asked my classmates to brainwash me... Other included works - "Survival", "Unfinished Novel"... Sayaka Murata told eight stories full of science fiction and absurdity in calm and concise words.

This book is a collection of short stories and a companion volume to the famous work "The Martian Chronicles" by science fiction master Ray Bradbury. It contains 18 Bradbury's Mars stories written in the 1960s and 1970s, continuing the fantastic imagination and poetic style of "The Martian Chronicles". "The Martian Chronicles" focuses on the first encounter between humans and Mars, while this book focuses on depicting humans' in-depth exploration after adapting to the Martian environment, the conflict between the two civilizations, and the identity dilemma, and adds narratives from the perspective of Martians. Some people are gradually assimilated by the Martian civilization, abandoning the inhabited towns and becoming dark-skinned and golden-eyed Martians... A fantastic and absurd drama is staged here. Mars is like a mirror, reflecting the deep fears and desires of human nature. At a time when topics such as space travel and Mars immigration are attracting more and more attention, this book not only echoes the science fiction classic "The Martian Chronicles", but also gives this theme a new connotation.

In Jewish tradition, a person dies twice. Once when their heart stops beating, and again when their name is last spoken, spoken or remembered. Only then will the deceased disappear and bid farewell to the world completely. My wife's ancestors were sent to a concentration camp by Norway's most feared Nazi leader. After the war, the family actually lived in a house where the executioner imprisoned and brutally interrogated their compatriots. An unusual twist of fate brings suffering, and the weight of history threatens the relationships between generations. In order to resist forgetfulness, he decided to search in history and retell the stories of the dead and the living.

This book is the sequel to "Brooklyn" and continues Alice's life after she married Tony, had children, and moved to Long Island. Their relationship is in crisis, and Alice returns home to Ireland, unwilling to raise Tony's illegitimate child with his affair partner. There, she reunited with her old best friend Nancy and her old lover Jim, but she didn't know that the two had already planned to get married. Jim and Alice's old love rekindles, and the story becomes more complicated... The story is narrated alternately from the perspectives of the three protagonists, and characters from the "Enniscorthy Universe" appear in turn. The entire story revolves around love, family and personal choices, profoundly depicting the complexity of human nature and the multifaceted nature of emotions.

Is she a villain or a hero? Is he a king or a coward? Is it a curse from the gods or a parent-child tragedy? --Another masterpiece adapted from Greek mythology after "Circe". When the Spartan princess Clytemnestra first saw the exiled Mycenaean prince Agamemnon in the palace hall, she was immediately moved by this forbearing, silent and ambitious young man. She would not have thought that many years later, this young man who had fought back to Mycenae and seized the throne with the help of his father's army, this man with whom she had been so close to each other - her husband - would cold-bloodedly sacrifice her own flesh and blood - their eldest daughter Iphigenia - in order to obtain the east wind that allowed the fleet of thousands of sails to sail on the eve of commanding the Greek army to sail. On that bloody evening, Clytemnestra swore a poisonous oath: She would make this man pay the same price with her own hands...

"Box Men" are a kind of urban fringe characters: they carry cardboard boxes on their heads and build their own kingdoms in small cardboard boxes. They are completely isolated from society, wandering in the corners of the city, and only looking at the world through the peephole. How did "Box Man" come about? Why did they give up everything for what they wanted? What did you see through the peep window? The story is based on the notes written by the "Box Man", and is composed of articles written by other characters, suddenly inserted fables, news reports, poems and other various time and space fragments to form an experimental structure. It explores the invisibility of people living in the city, the relationship between "seeing" and "being seen", human beings' sense of belonging, and questioning of "writing" itself.

This book is a novel published in 2022 by Paolo Giordano, an Italian writer and winner of the Strega Literary Award. This is a rich and profound novel. It follows the protagonist walking on the streets of Rome, Italy, the climate summit in Paris, France, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and even the distant Guadeloupe. He talks with meteorologists, physicists, journalists and atomic bomb survivors, trying to show the current moment. It explores the complexity of the world, the spiritual crisis of contemporary people, and explores the dangerous future facing human society. It is a literary work with realistic concern and topical significance. It was praised by the media as "a novel that truly belongs to our times" and won the 2023 French André Malraux Literary Award.

Winner of the 2020 Medici Literary Prize. Forty-six-year-old Adelaide works in the publishing industry. She just broke up with her partner of seven years and moved into a 30-square-meter one-bedroom apartment in Paris to live alone. She tried to enter the love market again, but was horrified to find that at the age of forty-six, she was greatly reduced in the emotional market of meeting a man and marrying him as soon as possible. The thought almost drove her crazy. The four close girlfriends around her have also fallen into a mid-life crisis, trying to tame the single life...

Sakumi's father died suddenly of cerebral thrombosis, and her sister Mayu died in a car accident while drunk driving after taking sleeping pills. Therefore, she formed a strange new family with her mother, her half-brother Yuio, her cousin Mikiko, and her mother's childhood best friend Junko, living under the same roof. One day, Sakumi hit her head on her way to work and lost part of her memory. After that, she began to date her sister's boyfriend Ryuichiro, but the memory of her sister Mayu always lingered around them. At the same time, her younger brother Yuono starts to skip school for some reason, her mother has a new boyfriend, and her long-lost student friend Eiko suddenly breaks into her life... Although sadness is inevitable, Sakumi gradually discovers that time is as beautiful as nectar.

"Dead people are heavier than broken hearts." This book is Chandler's first novel, and the tough-guy detective Philip Marlowe makes his debut. Sternwood, an eccentric old rich man, entrusts Marlowe to investigate a blackmail case. But the two daughters of the Sternwood family have always prevented Marlowe from taking action. A homosexual who rents and sells obscene books, a ruthless casino owner, a greedy hooligan... Who is behind the scenes? The successive deaths have made the case more complicated and confusing. What secrets does the Sternwood family have?

This book is a famous work by Osamu Dazai, and it is also an epistolary novel. "Skylark", a young man who went to a mountain health sanatorium due to tuberculosis, was terrified of his impending death. On the other hand, he was fighting the disease in the company of friends with distinctive personalities and backgrounds, striving to become a "new man." There, the sweet and sour relationship with the two vital nurses - Sister Zhu and Azheng, and the sudden grief caused by the death of his partner due to illness, all made him emotionally ups and downs. He continued to meticulously record these daily mental fluctuations in letters to close friends. However, "Skylark" has always maintained a positive worldview similar to Greek mythology - in the corner of Pandora's box, which spreads misfortune to the world, a small gemstone engraved with the word "Hope" was found. "Pandora's Box" is the sunny side of Osamu Dazai's writing.