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Cai Xiaoling's collection of essays is divided into five volumes: Volume 1 "The Hole", Volume 2 "The Cat is Missing", Volume 3 "It Was Tender at First", Volume 4 "Writing Letters at San Francisco Coffee", and Volume 5 "The Balcony", with a total of 39 essays.

Women who live alone after the age of 30,
Buying a house is not about starting a family.
She couldn't help but wonder why her life was different from others?
But what does a standard life look like?

Reading Xiaoling's writing is like watching a cat lying in the sunlight, carefully combing its fur. That is the soft and beautiful prose in my mind. -- Gong Wanhui (Malaysian Chinese writer)

"I wish my first collection of essays could be written like this." This is what popped into my mind after reading half of "The Hole." The more I read, the more I envy it. -- Liang Jingfen (Malaysian Chinese writer)

Perhaps "The Hole" reads gray, and perhaps the image of the hole may scare people, but the more you read this collection of essays, you will find that Xiaoling is actually bright and clear. --Nut Xiaosheng (Malaysian Chinese writer)

Xiaoling excels at switching the narrative lens arbitrarily as the plot progresses, allowing the plot to follow different paths, sometimes self-portraits, sometimes others' photos, sometimes distant shots, sometimes empty shots, breaking away from the reader's preconceptions. -- Yang Liya (Taiwanese writer)

Cai Xiaoling

Born in 1986, from Kuching, the Cat City.

He holds a PhD in Chinese from the University of Malaya and is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Chinese at the University of Malaya and a director of the Malaysian Chinese Writers Association.

He has won the first prize of the Huazong Literature Award for prose, the Times Literature Award for Film and Television Fiction, and the Seagull Literature Award for Reading Malaysian Chinese Literature.

Plain tenderness
——Preface to Cai Xiaoling's Prose Collection "Hole" ◎Huang Jinshu9

Volume 1. Cave <br>Cave 17
I Follow the River 26
The most beautiful time 30
Rainy Day 33
Maze 37
Feathering 43

Part 2. The Cats Are Gone <br>The End of the Road Blooms 49
Cat and the World 55
60, the road that passes by the white cat statue
The cat that only drinks Coke 64
No one knows 67
Cat Road 74
The cats are gone 77

Part 3. Gentle at First
A woman's voice 85
Faraway 88
Dance Girl 91
Initially gentle 95
Library 99
Breakfast 103

Part 4. Writing Letters at San Francisco Coffee <br>Sun City and the Legend of the Prince 109
Fish 113
My Neighbor Totoro's Cousin's Love 116
Love Never Stops 121
Cohabitants 126
Crystal Fleeting Years 130
Write 137 in San Francisco Coffee
Dear I 142
Just behind the church 146
Dancing Horse 150
2429 154
Aphrodisiac 158

Volume 5. Balcony <br>New Disease Arrives 165
Free Forest 169
Sun Day Outing 177
Afternoon Dreaming 181
Images I don't understand184
Daydream Girl 187
Movie Scene 192
Balcony 196

Postscript: I Thought I Found My Ideal Place 205

Article publication record 208