The female writer Zhou Rong gets involved in an immoral three-way relationship. During her days of visiting friends, she undergoes self-analysis and raises topics about the relationship between love and ethics, love and existence, the female self and love, and creation and ethics, and makes reflections as a woman. After experiencing conversations with different people, she decides to pursue a new form of love. In the end, in other lands, an encounter with another man takes place. She decides to leave the past behind and be with this man.
“If photographs are using the people being photographed, then my writing is using my experiences and the people around me. I sometimes can’t tell if I’m still with them because I love them or because just for my novel.”
“In a sense, the life a person lives is the one he would ideally like to live for himself. I think deep down I was always looking forward to a dramatic, orgiastic, intense life, through which alone I could feel myself. I love romance of course, but not as much as I love the experience that comes with it which urges me to write more. It seems that it is through expression I feel existence. Of course romance can also bring existence, but I prefer to obtain non-existence through romance.”
“Women have always been given an expectation of self devotion, I mean when they are in love. Their bodies and minds must be bound to the man so that their love is worthwhile and subsequently she can find a way out. The man, on the other hand, even in love, remains the only subject of his life, they integrate the woman into their life, she becomes part of their life’s value, they can be temporary devotees of love, but deep down they still have the only power over their own lives. Women are not in control of their lives, they are enslaved and dominated. Even in the art history, male artists have turned women into their lovers, then gazed at them and incorporated them into their work. “
“Being together is just a formality, I just need to be close to someone to approach their inner, I’m just curious about love and curious about others.”