Ten years ago, when her father-inlaw Lin Yu-lai, the publisher of some 300 ketzai booklets, was on his death bed, Wu promised she wouldn't let the publishing house die out. And so after several ketzai publishing houses in southern and central Taiwan went belly up, Chulin became the last of a breed.
十年前，曾出版過三百本歌仔冊的公公林有來臨終時，要她答應不會讓竹林在她手中消失，因而在中南部幾家後繼無人的歌仔書局歇業後，竹林成為台灣最後的一家。