Author Fang Fang says she is full of story ideas but does not have enough time to write. And she tells Sun Ye she has been pleasantly surprised by the great attention paid to her latest novel.

Round eyes, an impish nose and small cherry lips give Fang Fang the look of a quick-witted, animated storyteller. And, she is. The 58-year-old best-selling author says she realized she had the gift of storytelling since childhood. "If you had asked my classmates then 'Who will grow up to be a writer?', they would have said it's me."

"They nicknamed me queen of storytelling."