‘This person loves you but doesn’t exist’: Inside China’s romance role-playing boom
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In China, young women are paying hundreds of yuan to experience scripted romance, fuelling a booming industry built on manufactured intimacy. But as the boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, questions emerge about where those limits should lie. SHANGHAI: “My shepherd,” said the man, striking a match in the dark. “Do you see me now?” The 26-year-old performer, who only wants to be known as Xiaobai, is playing Qiang Qingci - a fictional psychiatrist who erased himself from the memory of
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