The Boyfriend Who Never Meets

Xie Tao got a boyfriend. They have never met. He would send her many things, snacks she had never eaten before, expensive-looking gold and silver jewelry, wine brewed from the first snow, tea boiled with plum blossom dew, and books of strange tales she had never read. She could imagine what his life must be like, as poetic and picturesque as an ancient painting. Because of him, Xie Tao’s life fundamentally changed. She no longer had to work several jobs because he didn’t allow it. Her life was no longer strained because he always sent her real gold and silver. But she didn’t know that every WeChat message she sent him was transformed into a sealed letter and sent to another time and sp...