Lin Feng, a highly intelligent college student, uses his studies in psychology to build a sophisticated emotional algorithm system. By mastering microexpressions, predicting behavior, and managing a database, he develops relationships with more than a dozen women at once, turning every meeting and every moment of getting to know someone into a quantifiable emotional game. From “accidental” encounters in the library to carefully calculated first kisses, Lin Feng revels in having everything under control, but gradually loses himself in the emotional web he has spun.
When several women begin to sense something is wrong, the database develops logical errors that cannot be fixed, and genuine feelings break through the algorithm’s defenses, cracks begin to appear in the system Lin Feng built so carefully. Faced with an unprecedented emotional crisis, he must choose between revealing the truth and continuing to pretend, only to discover that he has long since become a prisoner of the system.
Between loss and gain, Lin Feng begins to reflect on the nature of love. He tries to repay the emotional debts he has accumulated, but finds that some kinds of hurt cannot be made up for with an algorithm. In the end, he must face the hardest challenge of all: stripping away every trick and calculation, finding the true self he has forgotten, and learning not to love and be loved.
Through nuanced psychological portraits and incisive analysis of emotions, this book explores truth and falsehood, calculation and sincerity, self and others in modern relationships. It is not only a story about emotional manipulation, but also a mirror reflecting the doubts and choices everyone may face in love.
