Taxi-drive Wang Jun…. The latest in your chain of incarnations, like the others, selected by the accident of rebirth, the lottery of fate.
-- Unknown woman (Chapter 1)

Importance: Here, the unknown woman considers in her mind Wang’s current situation in life, reborn as a taxi driver. It is the fate of people to be reborn randomly after death, a fate out of their hands. In the novel, reincarnation is the reality of what comes after death. Each time they are reborn, Wang and the unknown woman must find one another again.

I am your soulmate, your old friend, and I have come back to his city of sixteen million in search of you. I put your poor wife, Driver Wang... What will become of her when I reappear in your life? What will become of her then?
-- Unknown woman (Chapter 1)

Importance: The unknown woman considers the fact that she and Wang are soulmates, finding each other when they...