Ghost mailbox

Author: Yu Yijian
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This is a work that intertwines love and horror, portraying the beauty of love and the modern loss of the ability to love through the protagonist's bizarre experiences. Zheng Chuan is the CEO of a state-owned enterprise, in his 40s, and has achieved career success. In his encounters with multiple women, he becomes numb to love and sex. Several emails change his life, leading him to gradually recall his unforgettable love story with a classmate named Lin Xiaoyue during their time as intellectuals in the countryside. However, when he seeks out Xiaoyue now, he discovers that she had died a year earlier. The person is gone, but emails keep arriving one after another, plunging Zheng Chuan into panic. An unseen eye watches his every move, and an unseen hand sends emails as the events unfold, pulling him deeper into a pool of terror from which he cannot escape. More so, those harboring grievances seize the opportunity to take revenge, causing Zheng Chuan to gradually lose his way in a confusing web of truth and deception, until the arrival of the final email. The entire book is filled with suspense and a pervasive atmosphere of horror, expressing a deep longing for sincere love in a modern world devoid of it, and prompting profound reflection on modern views of love.