★ Winner of four major Taiwanese literary awards, as follows:
2022 Taiwan Literature Award (Bud Award)
2022 Golden Tripod Award for Literary Books
2023 Taipei International Book Exhibition Grand Prize (Fiction, First Prize)
Second Mirror Literature Million-Dollar Film & Fiction Grand Prize (Million Grand Prize)
★ Rights licensed to Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and other languages!
★ The original novel behind the most anticipated legal drama of 2023 — The Defender of Bachi Gate.
★ Author, director, and screenwriter are one and the same — Taiwan’s most cutting-edge demonstration of IP filmed adaptation.
★ Set against the massacre of an Amis captain’s family aboard the Pingchun No. 16, the story follows Amis defender Tong Baoju as he races against time to pursue the truth; deep-sea fishing, national interest, and capital punishment intertwine, turning the courtroom battle into a profound inquiry into the boundaries of justice.
★ Grounded in legal training, the novel realistically portrays the struggles and social predicament of ethnic minorities and migrant workers within the legal system, laying bare the human reality beneath class.

Before the gunshot, he had to find a way to save his client.
A deep-sea fishing vessel carried the secret of a family massacre aboard; to uncover the truth and uphold justice, what may be wagered is the fate of an entire nation.
“What is the fact in issue?” the presiding judge asked.
“We have good reason to believe that, before the deceased was killed that night, he placed a call to someone — someone who may hold the answer to the truth behind the murder,” said Tong Baoju.
In Keelung’s Bachi Gate, the massacre of an Amis captain’s family aboard the Pingchun No. 16; all evidence points to an Indonesian fisherman from the vessel who has fled — the case seems airtight, yet suspicions linger thick and heavy. Tong Baoju, an Amis public defender born and raised in Bachi Gate, had long since left his tribe, but is now forced to return home, confronting a hostile community. Within a limited time, he must join forces with his Indonesian neighbor caregiver and an alternative-service conscript soon to become a judge, bridging the gulf of race and language, to uncover the truth buried beneath the surface through the faintest of clues…
The vast deep-sea fishing industry and the interests of the state are inextricably entangled; what steers the course of the trial is not justice or fairness, but the silent, behind-the-scenes collusion and quiet cooperation of powerful forces; does the power to carry out — or stay — a death sentence still rest in the hands of the blind goddess of justice?

Tang Furui
He earned a Master of Laws in Taiwan and practiced as a lawyer for five years before receiving a Ministry of Education scholarship to pursue an MFA in creative writing — with a focus on film directing — at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Aimed at becoming a creator who both writes and directs, he draws on his legal training and litigation experience to depict, with realist precision, the human predicaments beneath the legal system.

His screenplay Fairy Tale World won several awards and was subsequently produced, releasing in 2022.

His novel The Defender of Bachi Gate won the Second Mirror Literature Million-Dollar Film & Fiction Grand Prize (Million Grand Prize); after publication it went on to receive three major literary awards — the 2022 Taiwan Literature Award (Bud Award), the 2022 Golden Tripod Award for Literary Books, and the 2023 Taipei International Book Exhibition Grand Prize (Fiction, First Prize) — after which he wrote and directed the television adaptation, which premiered in 2023.