I have always wanted to dedicate this story to everyone. I started writing it in 2003, and the first draft was completed in 2005. It has been revised many times since then, and it has been stopped many times due to business reasons. I was always dissatisfied, but I breathed a sigh of relief when I finished the final draft, which was quite satisfying. The protagonist in the story has many real shadows of the author, and of course more are fictional parts. By basing a fictional lie on partial facts, readers will not be able to tell the truth from the lie. The protagonist dies in the end, but the author is still alive. Although I am alive, I feel like I have shed a layer of skin, and I feel like I have gained a new life like a bloody phoenix.
Things have changed, and the protagonist in the story and those netizens have become my beloved characters, and all the love and hatred in the past have become a thing of the past. I would like to thank those netizens through my own creation, because they gave me the impulse and inspiration to create. Their posts on the forum have provided me with a lot of material for my creation, and some of them have been incorporated into my works intact. I hope to gain their understanding and tolerance, absolve me of the crime of "stealing pens", and send my greetings and blessings here.
Finally, thank myself for not giving up halfway.
Summary: Xie Tiange, who was unhappy with his career and marriage, published a "nightmare" he once had on the public forum of Shanghai Hotline, hoping that experts would analyze his dreams.
Unexpectedly, the "nightmare" attracted the attention of an Internet user 4,000 kilometers away. This person invited Xie Tiange to a forum website called "Hongming Villa". In this relatively closed and mysterious virtual space, Xie Tiange met a group of netizens and thought he had found warmth, happiness and friendship that he had never experienced before. He began to have no scruples, go wild, and immerse himself in the communication game of alternative games. When he regarded the other party as a friend and got a legendary online love, he also thought that he had touched the mysterious corner of this website, doubts, puzzles, speculations, inferences... But the looming thread kept pulling and teasing his nerves, making him happy, making him painful, and hypnotically put him into a mental state of persecution. He could not get rid of it, and unconsciously gradually became obsessed. Finally, he lost control of his mind and staged a real online "nightmare"...
Until his death, he never figured out the true face of these netizens. Are they good? Is it evil? The story not only shows the protagonist's mental journey, but also reveals the complexity of human nature, which is full of emotions.
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