Some Chinese women use virtual boyfriends in romance games as a flexible form of digital companionship in China.

Love is meant to be unpredictable. It is supposed to be messy, inconvenient, and vulnerable. And for decades, we have treated ...

The mobile romance game Love and Deepspace has drawn around 80 million users and nearly $1 billion in revenue, reflecting the growing appeal of digital intimacy among women in China and beyond ...