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If a person is not burdened by the form, he will see the Great Luotian before his eyes! There is no way to win, but there is a way to be quick and unbreakable... They all return to the mortal world. I want to save you from burning and drowning, but I will go against the path of becoming a Buddha! Note: Updated on time from 6:00 to 11:30 every night

(Won the Gold Medal in the National Adult Category of the 20th Bing Xin Literature Award) Ah Yue, a girl from Hui'an, Quanzhou, found a bronze key engraved with "Kaiyuan" in her father's stone carving toolbox after his death. This key opened up a past that had been dusty for thirty years: his father was a puppeteer of the Chongwu Troupe, and had a deep friendship with Master Li, a Taiwanese puppeteer across the Taiwan Strait. However, due to a cross-strait accident, an agreed-upon cross-strait cooperation came to nothing. A blue theater box containing the tokens of the cross-strait troupes was locked by numerous mechanisms. The journey of searching for the secret of the key and the play box is also Ah Yue's journey of understanding her parents' pain and silence. An old crescent-shaped scar on the mother's wrist hides an unspeakable secret. The faded playbills, gongchi music scores, lychee stains, and magnolia lanterns are like scattered puzzle pieces, pointing to a friendship and regret buried by time. Ah Yue relied on the notes left by her father and the "blind engraving" skills of Hui'an stone carvings to gradually unlock the complex locks corresponding to the "seven emotions". Finally, on the stage of the Confucian Temple on a rainy night during the Qingming Festival, Ah Yue used herself as a "keyhole" to connect the light and shadow of Quanzhou and Tainan. The dusty puppets awakened in the moonlight and played the unfinished movement of "Chen San Wuniang" across time and space. This is not only the inheritance and perfection of my father's artistic life, but also the affectionate echo of the common cultural blood of both sides of the Taiwan Strait through the barriers of time in the spirit of craftsmanship and reconciliation of family ties. The novel uses rich southern Fujian imagery, exquisite lock-and-key metaphors and magical realistic writing techniques to weave a moving story about search, memory, reconciliation and inheritance of cultural roots, showing extraordinary artistic appeal and profound humanistic care.