The collection of short stories The life of Miss Zhu San includes six short stories written by the author in recent years. The work continues the author's focuses on the lower-class citizens of Shanghai. The life of Miss Zhu San depicts the world's fickleness, Hard to Say Goodbye shows the mutual hurt from the causal circle of domestic violence to both men and women, and The Death of Yang Jinquan reveals the loneliness within human's heart. Cry in the Wind seeks to portray the kindness to strangers driven by empathy and compassion and the potential scam that takes advantage of this kindness. The County of Hao's Sonata describes the physical and mental crisis of middle-aged women who are trapped by love and have encountered fraud. The Story of Kidney Transplant confronts the awkward situation faced by ethical relations under the test of life and death. It re-evaluates the long eulogized "maternal love" in its general sense, and tries to look deeper into human nature and question ethics... The six stories revolve around the themes of affection, love, desire, and human relations. There are new discoveries in terms of humanity exploration.