Who Led Whom into Whose Trap?

Zhou Beiyou, a notorious “player” in northern China's art scene, is famous far and wide. He paints Dunhuang flying apsaras on his body, then wipes them off, calling it performance art. He turns love into bestselling novels and says that being honest with women is “like playing tricks on ghosts.” This philosophy of treating life as a game has made him a legend in the scene.

Until he meets Lin Shen at a cutting-edge art exhibition.

Lin Shen has a PhD in sociology from Columbia University, specializing in intimate relationships and contemporary emotional patterns. She's working on a major paper titled “Fear of Commitment in a Postmodern Context: A Study of Highly Educated Urban Men.” Zhou Beiyou, a walking embodiment of the theory, fits all her sampling criteria perfectly.

When an artist is studied by a sociology PhD, will he stick to his principles about love, or go with the pull of universal gravitation?

When a researcher becomes the subject of her subject's research... In the physical effects produced by the two of them, who is the apple, and who is universal gravitation?