Zhang Ailing's novels, Love in a City-Toppling City and Fate of Half Life were both very famous novels, which represented her two completely different writing styles. " Love in a Fallen City " was a novel that described the prosperity and changes of Shanghai in the 1930s. Through the love story of the two female protagonists, Bai Liusu and Fan Liuyuan, it showed the social class division and the complexity of human nature at that time. The novel was presented in a semi-autobiographical form. The author, Zhang Ailing, used her own personal experience as a blueprint to describe the historical background and character relationships of the story. " Half-Life Fate " was a novel that described the social customs of Hong Kong in the 1930s. It told the love story of two women, Zhong Manting and Gu Manzhen. The novel narrated the author's family history and the marriage life of his family members in a semi-narrative and semi-autobiographical manner. These two novels have very deep emotional descriptions and character creation, and at the same time, they also reveal some social problems at that time. Love in a City-Toppling City described the complexity of human nature in the prosperous and changing Shanghai city, while Fate of Half Life described the local customs and human nature of Hong Kong society.