台北爱之船 (2020)

《台北爱之船》（英语：Loveboat, Taipei）是美籍华裔作家邢立美于2020年所出版的一本小说。这本书出版后成为畅销书，随后出版的两部续集中，分别是2022年的《爱船重聚》与2023年的《爱船永远》。以这部小说改编的电影《台北之恋》由Paramount+排定2023年8月10日美国上映。

本小说的下集为《爱船重聚》。

Loveboat, Taipei is a 2020 young adult romance novel by American author Abigail Hing Wen first published by HarperCollins and released on January 7, 2020. Wen captures the journey of self-discovery in her debut novel which was inspired by her time in Love Boat to learn Mandarin and more about her heritage. The novel was followed by two sequels, Loveboat Reunion, released on January 25, 2022, and Loveboat Forever, released on November 7, 2023.

A film adaptation of the book, retitled Love in Taipei was released on Paramount+ on August 10, 2023.

Plot

Ever Wong, an eighteen-year old girl living in Ohio, has just graduated high school and been accepted to the medical program at Northwestern University, following the wishes of her immigrant parents, who gave up her father's career as a doctor in China to immigrate to America. However, she secretly harbors a passion for dance, and is conflicted when she is unexpectedly accepted to the dance program at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she had applied on a whim without her parents' knowledge.

Ever's parents are furious and force her to decline the offer, and tell her they are sending her to summer school in Taiwan to connect with her culture. Upon arriving in Taipei, Ever meets her classmates, including Rick Woo, whom she finds attractive but reflexively dislikes, as he is a nationally famous Yale-bound prodigy child whom she is frequently compared to by her parents. Rick's cousin Sophie Ha, however, immediately takes a liking to Ever, and the two are assigned as roommates and quickly become friends.

Sophie excitedly tells Ever about the program's reputation for promiscuity and fostering romantic connections (hence its nickname, "Loveboat"), and Sophie sets her eyes on Xavier Yeh, a brooding, enigmatic playboy and the scion of one of Taiwan's wealthiest families. Meanwhile, Ever resolves to spend her first summer away from her parents breaking the constraining "Wong Rules" that her parents have imposed on her throughout her life.

One night, Ever and her classmates sneak out to a nightclub, and Ever gets drunk for the first time and dances with Xavier. Not knowing her limits, Ever becomes overly intoxicated until she vomits, and has to be helped home by Rick, who watches over her as she sobers up. The next morning, she finds a mysterious drawing of herself dancing at the club.

Ever sets off with Sophie to a photography studio to take glamour shots, and on the way there, Sophie confides that she went home with Xavier and hooked up with him the previous night. At the studio, Ever is annoyed by Sophie's comments about her conservative outfit choices, and decides to do her last shot completely nude. After the photoshoot, Ever seeks out an independent dance studio and signs up, having been barred by her parents from taking Loveboat's official dance electives.

Ever begins to warm up to Rick, grateful for his care after her drunken night at the club. Ever finds more drawings of herself slipped under her door; Rick denies being the author of the drawings, as he has a girlfriend, Jenna, back home in New Jersey, but tells Ever that he sees her as a sister and offers to help her find the mystery artist.

Sophie and Rick's aunt invites them on a weekend trip to visit her home in Taipei, and Sophie invites Xavier, who she is now dating, as well as Ever. Just before the trip, Ever is shocked to discover that Xavier is her mystery artist, and that he has mixed feelings towards Sophie. Out of loyalty to Sophie, Ever angrily warns Xavier to stop making drawings of her.