Hu Mengxiao (Mainland China)

Excellence Award

Author Biography:

A literature enthusiast. Signed as an online novelist on Douban. Recipient of the Excellence Award for Short Film Screenplay in the 15th “Shadow Cup” Film Script Collection and recognized as an outstanding student in the third session of the Spark Science Fiction Creative Public Talent Training Program.

Award-Winning Work: Cloned Love

Synopsis:

Among the three children of the Liao family, Liao Hupo is treated the best, yet she still feels like a guest in her own home. Hupo falls uncontrollably in love with Xi Bin, who is 22 years older than her. Before their wedding, Hupo discovers a shocking truth: she is actually a clone of Xi Bin’s deceased first love.

Hupo flees the wedding to visit her classmate Su Guan, who is in prison for killing her own clone—who also happens to be Hupo’s adoptive mother. Hupo then alters her appearance and assumes a completely new identity to approach Xi Bin and become engaged to him. Unexpectedly, Xi Bin dies in a car accident before the wedding. Through Xi Bin’s final confessions, Hupo learns that he had always known her true identity but pretended not to, fearing he would lose her again.

Just when everything seems settled, Hupo discovers the ultimate truth: all of this was a psychological test designed by the dream architect Luo Yan in Uyuni for a mysterious client. In reality, Xi Bin, Hupo’s fiancé, died on the eve of the 2043 wedding, and Hupo herself is Yuan Hupo, who created a Truman Show–like world to honor her deceased fiancé and herself.