The First Intimate Contact (traditional Chinese: 第一次的親密接觸; simplified Chinese: 第一次的亲密接触; pinyin: Dì yī cì de qīn mì jiē chǔ) is a 1998 novel by Taiwanese writer Tsai Jhi-heng (蔡智恆, with pen name 痞子蔡 and userID jht).

[1] The First Intimate Contact was first published by Tsai in the form of online installments on a bulletin board system.

They eventually meet up in real life and become a couple, going out by day and chatting online by night.

The disease proves to be fatal and the novel ends with the protagonist finding and reading a letter FlyNDance had written for him before she died.

Soon after the complete novel was released online, an anonymous Singaporean language localization was written in English and circulated around the Internet under the name Dolce Vita.