Mr. Keigo Higashino's famous book "White Night Walk", the plot design is indeed clever, the performance technique is also very skilled, in the different character experiences to show the facts like a cocoon, but unfortunately this fact is too cruel.
A pawnshop owner buying a spring for a young girl, a tragic murder of a father twenty years ago, two seeds of hatred continue to grow and sprout, and then bear more vicious fruits.
As the old criminal policeman Junzo Sasagaki said, he didn't kill them earlier. Later, when he heard the cause of the incident, he developed inexplicable sympathy for Ryoji Kirihara and Karasawa Yukiho.
After reading a lot of comments, they are a recognition of their poignant love, a pity for their tragic fate, and even some people wash the ground for their evil deeds - can those murderous facts really be washed white?
They do deserve sympathy, but their subsequent evil deeds are also ironclad facts.
The malice of others is malice, and the harm they have harmed, such as Yosuke Kirihara, Tadayoshi Terasaki, Toshiko Fujimura, Namie Nishiguchi, Toshiko Kawashima, Naomi Imae, Mika Shinozuka, Noriko Kurigen, and even Reiko Karasawa, who adopted Karasawa, deserve retribution if she was euthanized while in a coma?
Using hatred to avenge innocent people is not worthy of sympathy at all, and if you are wrong, you will be punished, and being punished does not mean that you can continue to make mistakes.
In the process of Ryoji Kirihara and Yukiho Karasawa blocking the killing, perhaps only Yosuke Kirihara and Isamu Matsuura are really a bit damned, but it should be the law and the police who punish them, not these two young people who are heroic and righteous.
Some would argue that they, as victims, had no choice but to take revenge on the world. If this novel is written in the ancient jianghu where chivalry prevailed, then there is no problem, because there is no reason in that world, and force is the greatest truth. Therefore, the chivalrous guests traversed the rivers and lakes, performed heroic deeds, and robbed the rich to help the poor.
In that world, there is no sense of existence of ordinary people, and some are just passers-by who are affected because of the chivalrous people, and shopkeepers who suffer property losses because of competitions.
Even everyone's favorite "Legend of the Archery Hero", huang Rong and Guo Jing saw that other people's families were marrying relatives and deliberately teasing, thinking that the bride was too ugly, pulling her out of the palanquin to tease her, and finally cutting off people's ears.
Readers don't feel anything.
But "White Night" can't do this, because it's too close to us, modern society is about law, not about force, or Mr. Keigo Higashino wouldn't have arranged for Junzo Sasagaki to follow the case for nineteen years. After all, modern society protects ordinary people, and "White Night" is also the story of ordinary people.
The book is indeed cleverly conceived, and the suspense design is also very thrilling. But the world it depicts is really too gloomy. Like a friend of mine said, how terrible it would be if there was a figure like Karasawa Yukiho around.
In addition, as a reader, I did not read the poignant love between Karasawa and Kirihara, preferring to believe that they were using and being used.
The story ends with the suicide of Ryoji Kirihara, and Karasawa Yukiho does not express his feelings for Kirihara in person until the end, but Kirihara seems to have been used by Karasawa all the time:
Karasawa was molested by Yosuke Kirihara, and Ryoji Kirihara killed his father; Karasawa was jealous at school, Kirihara attempted rape to reverse Karasawa's relationship with Tokako Fujimura, and the same thing happened to Mika Shinozuka; Karasawa wanted to leave Takagu, Kirihara went to stalk Misawa Chiduro; Karasawa found that Imaya's investigation was about to touch the truth, Kirihara laid out close to Kurigen Noriko, and after getting cyanide, he directly killed people; Karasawa felt that his adoptive mother was sick to drag him down, so Kirihara ruthlessly let the old man "be euthanized".
In return, perhaps Kirihara didn't want anything in return. The trade secrets that Kirihara stole may have become karasawa's business capital, the starting capital for her to open a store, and even the huge assets that were first invested in the stock market may be the million that Kirihara got by killing his father.
Kirihara insists on walking in the dark for love, and he is the gobies that protect the gun shrimp. And Karasawa's gun shrimp may just be using Kirihara, using his infinite efforts without asking for returns to pursue the fame and fortune he wants.
The reason for this inference is that after Ryoji Kirihara killed his father to avenge his lover, the two could have switched places and started a new life. Even if the adoption of Reiko Karasawa could not be carried out for a while, there was no need to stop coming and going from now on and on a different life trajectory. Why did Karasawa go to Takamiya Makoto as a boyfriend, and even make up lies to force each other to get married? Why did you repeat the same trick after the divorce and marry into the Shinozuka family?
Everything is because Karasawa Yukiho pursues wealth and fame, rather than holding hands with Kirihara and spending the rest of his life in the sun.