This is the belles-lettres prize-winner Qi Yuan’s collection of short stories, which includes I Am Ready Not to be Crazy, The Pulse, The Follow-up, The Funeral, The Dating, The Beautiful Tower and The Releas e. Most of the works are in a calm and profound writing style, mingling the beauty of painting and the novel. In the novels, desire, death and dream are depicted very vividly and movingly, which embodies the loneliness, nothingness and absurdity of the modern city.