Lin Hsin-Hui’s novels appear close to reality but are strangely filled with a surreal and mysterious atmosphere that is often seen in cyborg-themed novels. In Stripped, One, and Annie, the skin and bones of a woman are transformed into a man, a perfect husband gets points from a virtual wife, and a love doll becomes a good wife. The stories shuffle back and forth in the space between humans and cyborgs, which makes readers wonder whether these characters are robots or just fantasies created by alienated modern people. This collection of short stories creates two very different social operation laws: one is mundane, just like the repetitive daily routines and emotional ups-and-downs that everyone has; the other one is full of technological sound and light, presenting a science fiction world with its own rules of survival. The author attempts to “peek at reality with a high degree of realism and approach reality with deviations from reality,” but what remains unchanged is people’s longing for discarding their identities and their lonely lives. Lin navigates through the imagination between humans and non-humans, raising a bold question: which is the more heartless one?