Love Manual

Author: Chen Kun
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: The author interprets love from a unique perspective, with a distinctive understanding, from the angle of "multifunctionality," enriching and delicately portraying the complex and tumultuous psychology and fate of the characters, leaving readers deeply moved. The restless protagonist views love as an essential part of life. Only three years after marriage and having children, she feels that love has faded and life has become dull. Compounded by unintentional neglect from her husband, she begins to yearn for love and encounters a new romance. In the years that follow, she engages in extramarital affairs with a photojournalist, a poet, an editor, and others. The outwardly cold husband, upon discovering this, escalates the conflict between them. To save the family, the husband fulfills his promise to "take care of you for life" and eventually pays a high price to have the doctor remove the "unreformable" wife's ovaries, depriving her of her basic female desires. Yet, with her female characteristics altered, she finds love in the virtual world of the internet—a love that everyone desires. What is this love?