"Mr. Meantime" is a short novel written by Huang Chun-Ming in 1986, the year right before the press ban was officially lifted in Taiwan. It is also considered as the pioneer work in his "Old People Series" novels. The plot of the novel is about thirteen elderly people in a remote village listening to Mr. Meantime to read outdated newspapers for spending their time, and one day suspicion and conflict aroused when Mr. Meantime read an incredible local report to the elderly. This paper adapting W. Benjamin’s concept of story-telling, as well as M. Bakhtin’s methodology of "chronotope" argues that the novel uses the "newspaper" to construct some complicated oppositions, including village vs. city, out-of-date vs. up-to-date, and most importantly the theory of story vs. newspaper in the literature. These arguments are verified in three parts in the paper. First, the relationship between stories and news containing in the outdated newspapers of the novel and its varied ways of chronotopic operation are analyzed. Second, through analyzing the time-space setting in the novel, the causes of the elderly problems were not from particular perpetrators, but from the conflicts of time and space between tradition and modernity thus aggregating the tragic problems of the elderly are found. Third, the significant meaning of Mr. Meantime in Huang Chun-Ming’s writing career is discussed, and the paper also points out that the topic of the causes of elderly problems extended to his other novels after 1986, which makes the structure of Life Set Free Series different from his other works.