Teng Xiaolan was born in Shanghai in 1976. Her books Moonlight in the City, Fairy Tales, and Sapphire Ring have been adapted into film and television works. Other works include Ten Roses, This Lawless Love, Love in the Big City, The Woman Who Dances Under the Stars, The Rules of Life, The Shanghai Film, The Four Lines, Moonlight in the City, Pearl of the Sea and Wind by the Wind. Some of her work has been translated into English and Polish. The novelette Beautiful Day won the sixth Lu Xun Literature Prize. She was selected as one of the “Four Groups” of talented and cultural masters by the Central Propaganda Department in 2014. Her other awards include the first Fairview Award, the Shanghai Literature Award, October Young Writer of the Year Award, Beijing Literature Novel Monthly Award, Novel Monthly Flower Award, the Yangtze River Literature Excellent Work Award and the Top 20 Members of the Future.