Listen to the Night and Hear a Hundred Things

"Fox Ghost and Flower Demon" inherits the lineage of classical legends and monsters, writing about scholars, fox fairies, ghosts, utensils and cause and effect; "Urban Strange News" puts monsters into elevators, subways, convenience stores, takeout platforms, live broadcast rooms and AI assistants; "New Edition of Mountains and Seas" rewrites ancient myths, allowing Taotie, Phoenix, Baize, Jingwei, Xingtian and Houyi to regain human confusion; "Fantastic Stories from the World" uses meta-narrative, allegory and anti-genre writing to explore the relationship between stories, authors, readers and destiny. This is not a simple hunt for strange stories, nor is it a reproduction of a classic classic. It attempts to use "different" to write "normal": using ghosts, gods and monsters to write about contemporary people's emotional debt, identity anxiety, technological loneliness, desire for power, family regrets and existential dilemmas. Here, ghosts do not always come to harm people, sometimes they just want to be remembered; monsters do not always tempt people, sometimes they know love better than people; mythical beasts are not always aloof, they can also be confused, in pain, regret and let go. A hundred stories, a hundred mirrors. When we see others, we also see ourselves.