beloved wife

If one day I am gone, how will you remember me? Will you keep my body? Or will you preserve my memories?
This day, if you are not here, I will enter into you and share you.
In the future world, the boundaries between spirit and body disappear.
Loyalty or betrayal no longer depends on free will?
Does love still exist?
Is "love" a transcendent nature or a machine's calculation?
Can people understand each other? Can hearts merge with each other?
Because of love, is it that I think, therefore you are there? Or is it that you think, therefore I am there? Was it me who dreamed of meeting you, or was it you in the dream who missed me?
Following "Heart" and "God," renowned Hong Kong writer Tung Kai-cheung's groundbreaking novel, this is the ultimate spiritual fusion, a struggle between humanity and artificiality.
A story of a "beloved wife", a story of "betrayal" and "infidelity" between reality and illusion, both spiritually and physically.
A university professor bids farewell to his writer wife as she moves to Cambridge, England, where he becomes "writer-in-residence," beginning a year-long correspondence. Meanwhile, the professor guides a female graduate student through a discussion of "love and sex" in his wife's fiction, uncovering hidden aspects of her own work that she had never before observed.
During her research, the girl unearths the writer's subconscious and inadvertently uncovers the secrets of the professor's marital relationship. She herself falls into a relationship crisis and becomes increasingly estranged from her boyfriend.
The girl's boyfriend is a young playwright who is stuck in a creative bottleneck. He is obsessed with the spiritual fusion ideas of French Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin and delusionally believes that the Internet is the ultimate destination for human spiritual connection.
Trapped by longing, illness, and work pressures, the professor gradually loses his grip on reality, unable to escape from a world of fiction and fantasy. The overlapping figures of his wife and the girl become indistinguishable. Coupled with a reunion with an old female confidant and a chance encounter with the mysterious and charismatic young scientific expert YH, the professor is plunged into an emotional vortex from which he cannot escape.
Then, YH proposed to the professor that he could help him create a writing machine using data reconstruction and consciousness downloading, provided that he invited the professor's wife...

2018-06-25

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