Those that evolved, and...

"This is the wonder of evolution. The survival of a species is not about who is the strongest or who has the best plan, but often the accumulation of accidents, mistakes and luck. Human beings are so lucky to have survived to this day. The best are often the first to die. Those who are the most proactive and idealistic have their cities destroyed and slaughtered, and those who survive are cynical people who make sarcastic remarks and are indifferent to things that are none of their business."
Save the World, Save the Cats

★Fourteen Biological Metaphors in Niuyou Xiaosheng, Winner of the Huazong Literary Award for Malaysian Chinese Fiction★Full-color illustrations by illustrator and Malaysian Chinese writer Gong Wanhui★Recommended with a special preface by Taiwanese novelist Zhu Jiahan★Sincerely recommended by Hong Kong writer Dong Qichang, Taiwanese writers Chen Baiqing and Yang Liya, and Malaysian Chinese writer Liang Jingfen

Is evolution a step forward or a step backward?
Combining human history, memory writing, ambiguity of desire, and urban observation,
Fourteen short stories using animals as metaphors.
Face the symbiotic relationship and coexistence rules between humans and natural ecology - only the fittest can survive after competition and sacrifice.

Zhu Jiahan wrote a special article foreword——
"Niuyou Xiaosheng offers readers a world brimming with metaphors, pointing to the distant past while also reflecting on the future. His novels' plots may seem bold, but in reality, his approach to fiction is not reckless but rather cautious. He even prefers to remain hesitant rather than readily offer answers. This is the beauty of fiction: no matter where human history leads, even at its end, we can always think a step further."

Butter Boy

Chen Yuxin, whose real name is Chen Yuxin, was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia in 1987. He is a Capricorn and writes news, features, essays, novels, and lyrics, but he never dares to write poetry. He has won first prize in the Prose and Fiction category of the Malaysia Huazong Literary Award and the Liang Shiqiu Literary Award in Taiwan for Prose. He is the author of the essay collections "Bourgeois Lightness Like Allergies," "Train Men and Women," and "A Cappella," and the novel collection "Southern Boy and Forgetful Old Man." He has self-published seven issues of the mini-literary magazine "SEAL." He was selected as one of the "Twenty Most Anticipated Young and Middle-Aged Chinese Novelists" in the 2020 United Literary Magazine, No. 434.

Preface Meditation on the Tightrope ◎ Zhu Jiahan 5
Myth Origin 12
Mary Mary 26
Goldfish Girl 34
Butterfly 44
Dolphins and Pandas 56
The Great Migration 68
Horse 78
Dolphin Boy 86
Echoing in the circuitous pipes that cannot be remembered 112
The Strange Story of the Faceless Man 128
Cocoon 148
Metamorphosis 166
Dassai 184
"Save the humans, save the cats" 202
Postscript What Then?