Total Honesty

Lin Xiaomo's twenty-eighth year began with a quantified journey: 100 blind dates.

From "mommy's boys" to parents obsessed with pushing their kids, from "zodiac fanatics" to "refined egoists"... She moved through the city's dazzling array of romantic specimens like an anthropologist.

Everyone cared whether she could find the right answer, but no one asked whether the question itself was wrong.

As her blind-date count neared three digits, Lin Xiaomo finally set down her pen. Beyond all the conditions, calculations, and KPIs, she wrote her 101st answer for herself: why do I love?