Li Ningyu thought her life was like a program: enter a command, and it would carry out the instructions. She considered emotions a source of interference and had always kept them out of her life. Then she met Gu Xiaomeng. She accepted the existence of this interference, letting it disrupt her, and was happy to do so...
Gu Xiaomeng's life was one adventure after another. She relished the thrill of death drawing near. She thought she would go on taking risks forever, until she turned twenty-five, the age she never wanted to live past. She didn't understand life or its meaning. Then she met Li Ningyu, who taught her how to lie, how to love, and what life meant. The price was her life...
Theme: Love in the Republican era is tragic nine times out of ten
