The psychiatrist said that some people look younger because their smile always stays in the year when she suffered psychological trauma... Xie Jin probably falls into this category.
The story unfolds around the years when 15-year-old Xie Jin was living in the house of his grandparents. Xie Jin moved from the countryside to the county town, his grandfather returned to the mainland from Taiwan, and his grandmother remarried and faced various difficulties...
Purpose: To show through the details of Xie Jin's family life that after 2000, the country's economy has improved and people's lives have improved. There are also signs that Taiwan began to gradually decline after 2000.