In the library of Sciences Po, Zuo Zhiyao met Jin Qing.
She has platinum hair and icy blue eyes, like an angel in a medieval icon painting - if you look closely, you can see that her eyes cannot blink. Jinqing is the heir to the most prominent ducal family in France. He is naturally cruel, paranoid and pathological. She won't feel guilty, won't hurt herself, only hurt others. She said to Zhiyao, "I will wait for you," "I will guard you," and "You are mine."
Zhiyuan lacks love, has low self-esteem and low vigilance. Being locked in the equipment room in junior high school left a shadow. Her parents were busy with their careers and ignored her. She had never been treated like this - seen, remembered, wanted. She thought it was love.
But love is not love. It's surveillance, it's control, it's drug dependence, it's an inescapable addiction under the "vitamin" label. It's pulling hair and banging against the wall, choking, slapping, kneeling down to beg for mercy and saying "I was wrong" after violence - and then hitting harder next time.
Ten years. From the libraries of Paris to the castle of Versailles, from a bowl of millet porridge to the organ trade in a cellar. Zhiyao was suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. He was not sure whether he loved Jinqing, but he couldn't leave her. Jinqing is extremely possessive and believes that "love" means "not letting you go", "wanting to destroy you" and "wanting to kill you".
In the end, Zhiyao was violently beaten to death by Jinqing. Jinqing ate her flesh, drank her blood, used the soup-making method Zhiyao taught her, and used Zhiyao's bones to make soup.
This is a story about control and dependence. About how two people who sit by a window and wait until dark drag each other deeper into darkness. About how love becomes the most exquisite packaging of violence.
What is love?
Love requires killing and destroying
Concept: People who have never been loved will mistake control for intimacy. The hostage falls in love with the kidnapper, not because the kidnapper is so good, but because the hostage needs to be needed so much - even if the end of this kind of 'being needed' is to be eaten.