The Mountain of Forgotten Laughter and Smoke

Three years after his wife’s death, Nan Tai discovers a riddle she carved before she died at Yantai Mountain.

A clue pointing to a century-old mystery leads to stories hidden in historic buildings, and to Lin Huiyin’s secret.

A woman traveling with her dog joins him by chance, becoming his most important ally on the road to solving the riddle.

In the end, every answer points in the same direction: toward “laughter,” toward “forgetting,” and toward the things you thought were over but were only just beginning.

A century-old hidden-poem mystery and the charm of intangible cultural heritage. People bearing their own wounds grow and heal under the tender care of time.