Flowers in the mirror

Li Ju-chen, Li Ruzhen, Lin Tai-yi

This book is essentially a social commentary and a human satire. This novel tells the story of a Taoist fairy named Fairy of the Hundred Flowers that has fallen from grace and tries to gain back her immortality. Li Ju-chen, himself failing to attain a higher examination degree, uses allegories to describe the caption of a human being between appearance and reality, the temporal and the eternal.