Every watch in every ad is set to 10:10. It makes the hands look like a smile. Lin Min-min built those smiles for a living while her own life sat frozen at the same angle: right job, right fiance, nothing true.Then the engagement ends, and Min-min gives herself one Taipei summer and one rule. Six nights. Six strangers. Total honesty about what each night is, and no repeats.A whisky bar owner who won't pour until she says what she wants. A night-market cook who feeds her fir...

Lin Min-min was born in Tainan and left it at eighteen. She has never once been a tourist there.When her business partner forces her to take the first holiday of her adult life, she books ten nights in a shophouse guesthouse on Shennong Street instead of her mother's spare room, turns her phone face-down, and sets out to see the oldest city in Taiwan the way strangers do. Beef soup at six. The fort. Salt fields at sunset.Her window faces a lane temple under scaffolding. The...