"He is unaware of his loneliness and is actually an outsider in this world of gold and powder." From Shanghai lady Wang Qiyao to the lonely dancer old uncle - Xiaose, Wang Anyi's male version of "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" rolls up the turmoil of Shanghai's children from the 1950s to after the millennium. The chaotic dance steps circle through the vicissitudes of life, and imprinted on the wrinkles of the times are those lonely faces one after another. "The objectivist Wang Anyi tells us that after a dance, the old master "returns to his original form". He is just a failed medium, a "middleman". His family background and appearance, identity and era, feelings and actions have always been misplaced.