Ruan Guang-Min is a Taiwanese mid-career manga artist, known for a fresh style, humor, and a strong sense of humanity. The artist excels at depicting Taiwanese everyday life, with a focus on delicate family, parent-child, and human emotional entanglements. In addition to manga creation, recent years have seen involvement in literary and stage adaptations. The artist's works have received recognition from major manga awards, including the 8th Golden Comic Awards for both “Youth Manga Award” and “Manga of the Year,” the 11th Golden Comic Awards for “Cross-Domain Application Award” and “Manga of the Year,” and the 14th Japan International Manga Award Silver Prize organized by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Notable works include the The Corner Store series, the Dong Hua Chun Barbershop series, the Heavenly Restaurant series, the Police and Thieves: Light and Dark series, Railway Sonata, The Seasoning of Happiness, The Illusionis on the Skywalk, and A Lever Scale. Rights have been sold in multiple languages, including Japanese, French, German, Italian, Turkish, and Arabic. Both Dong Hua Chun Barbershop and The Corner Store have also been adapted into television series.