I finaly scan over the whole story. Most of the stories seems to be from News and BBS. For example, He Fang's prototy is the lady who sold her company to JDS and started another one in States. She like Ottawa so much that she named the new complany as Dow's Lake. She had her PHD in France. I don't think her personal life is any close to the story though. The author is pretty good when the story only developed inside Chinese. However, whenever the story involved Canadian culture, the story start to be a cliche, and I feel like reading a Chinese BBS at that time. It makes the story quite weak.
Just my two cents.