"Love 404: Not Finding Her True Heart" is a modern urban emotional novel that tells the story of Chen Mo, a software development engineer, who struggles and grows in love and marriage. The story takes the relationship between Chen Mo and his wife Lin Xiao as the main line. Through delicate psychological description and the interweaving of reality and memories, it shows a marriage process from acquaintance and love to betrayal and separation.
Chen Mo is a typical science and engineering man, rational, focused and living a simple life. During a blind date, he met freelancer Lin Xiao, a girl who loves writing and has a lively personality. In order to get closer to Lin Xiao, Chen Mo resolutely quit his original job, moved to her city, and started living together. However, Lin Xiao's close relationship with her "male bestie" gradually became a hidden pain between the two. From discovering Lin Xiao playing games in double queue with her male best friend, to seeing her playing with her male best friend at home on surveillance, Chen Mo's trust was broken time and time again. Despite this, he still chose to propose marriage in an attempt to save the relationship.
However, life after marriage did not go as Chen Mo expected. The lockdown of the epidemic allowed the two to spend more time together, but it also exposed the gap between them. Lin Xiao's connection with her male best friend has never been broken, but Chen Mo's efforts and compromises failed to earn a reciprocal response. In the end, the marriage came to an end amid conflicts and betrayal. After the divorce, Lin Xiao quickly got together with her boyfriend, but Chen Mo fell into confusion under the double blow of unemployment and emotions.
