Keigo Higashino's Sleeping Forest: A successful performance is more important than preserving the scene of the killing 01020304

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On stage, the princess is stabbed with a spindle; offstage, the artistic director is poisoned by a poison needle. The whole ballet seems to have been spelled by a fairy tale.

"Sleeping Forest" is the second work in the Kaga Kyoichiro series and the official debut of Kaga after becoming a police detective. It ended my youthful college years and my unsuccessful career as a teacher after graduation. Today, Kaga is going to step onto the stage that truly belongs to him.

Still important to mention is the ubiquity of humanity in Keigo Higashino's works. Keigo Higashino's book has been read a lot, and soon after the beginning, you can guess the "murderer" of the murder, and its practical word murderer is not accurate. What attracts readers is the faint, warm, heartwarming love and love that runs throughout.

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Akiko Takayanagi is the principal conductor of the ballet and possesses extraordinary talent and excellence. While studying with the ballet company in New York, Takayanagi met her painter boyfriend Kazuhiro Aoki, but for her ballet career, she resolutely chose to abandon her boyfriend.

Asaoka is a dancer at Takayanagi Ballet as the Black Swan in Swan Lake. In a car accident, the physical injury will occasionally occur after the sequelae of sudden tinnitus. The car accident was caused by Uno's best friend, Saito Hako.

For the uninitiated who gradually lost their hearing, the performance of "Sleeping Beauty" a few days later was the biggest challenge. She also has to complete the final stage no matter what, and the success of this performance is of course inseparable from Takayanagi Yashiko, so she must ensure that Yashiko cannot make any mistakes.

Seeing a conflict between Takayanagi Yashiko and Kazumaki Toshiyuki (Kazuhiro Aoki's best friend), In order to protect the stage, Uno did not hesitate to pick up a vase and smash Kazema to death, and Ye Yuko felt guilty about the accident and took the initiative to replace Uno as a suspect in killing Kazema Toshiyuki.

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Yasuko Morita is a talented ballet girl who has long relied on diets to control her body shape due to her body shape changes in adulthood and has targeted Yashiko.

Upon learning of Kazema's death, Kazuhiro Aoki commits suicide in his apartment in New York. The police see a picture of a girl's back in Aoki's home and mistakenly think it is Yasuko Morita. Because in order to preserve the reputation of the ballet's principal dancer, the ballet's artistic director Yasunari Kajita claimed that it was Yasuko Morita who fell in love with the painter.

However, Kaga discovers that the painting is actually Yashiko, and it is also Yashiko who is in love with Aoki Kazuhiro. The police mistakenly thought that It was Yasuko because Yasuko had been frantically losing weight for the past two years, and she was not so slender four years ago.

Toshiyuki Kazama met Yasuko before she died and told her the truth. Yasuko felt that she was being used, or by someone she admired, so she stabbed Kajita Yasunari to death with a poison needle before the performance of "Sleeping Beauty".

Asaoka discovers that Yasuko is Kajita's killer but does not choose to call the police, hoping that Yasuko will focus on the ballet performance and keep it a secret until the performance, which eventually causes Yasuko to commit suicide. In the mind of the unsound, the perfect performance is more important than anything else.

The tension of the binary structure reaches its peak at the moment when the final mystery is revealed, but the two ends are not absolutely independent, but can be transformed into each other. The ending part mostly ends with humane care, but in the end, love and justice have the upper hand.

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Love, it's wonderful.

A policeman inexplicably falls in love with a suspect. And this suspect, initially approaching the purpose of the police, may have a little selfishness, but the trust, emotion, and dependence that naturally arise in the process of contact are so real and so touching.

In the vast sea of people, you meet a person who does his best to care for you for that little feeling of love, accepting your imperfections and even flaws. This kind of love, without too much vocabulary rendering, but makes people move in addition to touching or moving.

"I'll protect you." Kaga said. "Mr. Kaga... I will not forget your voice. "I didn't say anything for a while. Kaga gently pulled her over and whispered, "It's okay. I'll figure out how to get your ears, too. He gently kissed the untouched makeup. Because I like you. Kaga hugged Wei Xu tightly.

"Sleeping Forest" can be said to be the most emotionally rich in Kaga's series. When put into life, Kaga is also a proper love species.

From a suspenseful point of view, the story is not particularly brilliant, but the ending is really gentle and shocking!

Postscript: Keigo Higashino said that in order to write "Sleeping Forest", I watched more than twenty classical ballets in a year and entered the world of ballet dancers. As long as you keep trying, keep learning, you will always write it. Once you have this realization, there is nothing that cannot be done.