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"If It's Not Yours, It's Not Yours" is a collection of short stories by British female writer Helen Oyeyemi, which includes nine stories with "keys" as clues. Nine real or metaphorical keys open nine carefully constructed worlds intertwined with reality and fiction. Nine magnificent stories that take place in a surreal world, each plot is a secret waiting to be unlocked by a key. When you take a look at the whole story, you will not be able to help but marvel at the mysterious time and space created by Oyeyemi between reality and illusion!

It was a sunny afternoon in 1938. The famous novelist St. John Fox welcomed a long-lost uninvited guest-Mary Fox. He was completely unprepared for her sudden visit, because this was a person who did not exist at all, a wandering ghost that he had imagined and created, a muse that he was fascinated by. Now she transformed into a human being, came to him, and sternly rebuked him: "You bastard, you murder women, you are a serial killer." Yes, Mr. Fox is a "murderer", and he never tires of writing the heroines in his books to death, euphemistically calling it a "word game." Mary demands to be a part of his "game," she wants to enter his story, she wants to change the outcome of the murdered women. Will Mr. Fox accept his muse's challenge? Will he stop his killing game and start exploring the true meaning of love? How will his wife Daphne feel about her husband's sudden change? Will the story have a perfect ending this time? Get ready for a magnificent and bizarre love adventure