My Dad's Useless Philosophy

Introduction: Lin Wei's collapse started with a basin of foot-washing water that she had put away by herself. Her brain was overloaded and immune to all meanings, until her father saw through her "empty" phone call and pulled her back to her old home in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River. In the silent air of the old house and her father's "useless" life attitude, Lin Wei discovered the handwritten notes of her mother who died young, in which the confusion about "dancing with nothingness" formed an amazing reflection with the life of the father she despised. She was forced to embark on an involuntary spiritual practice, unaware that it would reveal the truth about her family and even her own fate. When repairing the cracks becomes a continuation of fate, and when the blank spaces contain abundance, can she find her own rhythm of life in her father's philosophy of still waters running deep, and dance with the emptiness of existence? Lin Wei, an elite woman, suddenly "crash" on the highway of life at the age of thirty-five and became immune to all meanings. A basin of foot-washing water became the last straw for her, and a phone call from her father, Lin Zhiyuan, who saw through the "emptiness" in her heart, forcibly recalled her to her old house in a small Jiangnan town where time seemed to have stood still. Faced with the "useless" life of her father who was taciturn and accompanied by fragments of ancient books and unfinished paintings, Lin Wei was full of confusion and irritability. However, by chance, she discovered a handwritten note left by her mother who died young, in which the confusion of "the rhythm of dancing with nothing" cracked her cognition like a bolt of lightning. She has always regarded her father as a loser, but there is such a profound philosophical proposition hidden behind him? Under the seemingly ordinary guidance of her father - writing with her left hand, playing Go, stargazing at night, repairing old things, and brewing new wine together - Lin Wei