In a geographical sense, "white nights" refer to a natural phenomenon in which the polar regions north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle can still see the sun at midnight in summer.
Although at that time the light of the sun could be bright enough to see everything around it, giving people a sense of separation, it was still not daytime.
And in this book, does the so-called white night refer to the night that has been deprived of time, or is it given some mysterious force that disguises the night as day?
And the two people who walk in the white night, are they self-redeeming or sowing the seeds of sin in order to survive?
"I just want to walk hand in hand with you in the sun." Dreams that sound easy are so far away for Ryoji Kirihara.
Perhaps in the very beginning, their tragic fate was predestined.
When he was in an abandoned building, in that dusty room, and saw his father insulting and trampling on the hazy and simple beauty in his heart, rage surged into his heart, madness and irrationality filled his brain, and he took out the beautiful white-flowered scissors and plunged it deep into his father's heart.
He desperately thought back to his loving and serious father, but the bloody and cruel picture in front of him made him desperate, and he could only be forced to accept reality.
From then on, he could only choose to wander in the dark ventilation duct and sink on the edge of darkness.
On the surface, pure and beautiful, like an angelic snow spike, but there is an indelible shadow of childhood, and even because of the misfortune of childhood, she has no connection with true light in this life.
From the moment she was sold to Ryoji's father by her own mother as a trading partner, she was like a walking corpse, and even betrayed her soul to the devil, becoming cold-blooded and ruthless, but she never dared to show her true face, and could only use a false mask to cover her distorted soul.
From the moment they killed their father and mother, the fates of the two of them were tightly intertwined like vines.
They pity each other, like gun shrimp and gobies, mutually beneficial and symbiotic, supporting each other in the dark, becoming a white light that illuminates each other.
They shrugged off moral restraints and the condemnation of their consciences and committed many unforgivable sins in order to protect and redeem each other's fragile souls.
For Ryoji Kirihara, Yukiho was the most innocent beauty of his childhood, the one he was willing to give everything to protect.
In order to return the light of the snow spike, he killed too many people, and also defiled many young girls and deceived the feelings of others.
But his love for Snow Spike is not pure, mixed with guilt and struggle.
It contains both the atonement and atonement for the sins committed by the father, and the self-blame for hurting others against the heart.
Under the constant torture of his heart, he finally chose to end his life with the scissors that had once cut out the white paper flowers, and used his own death to wash away the suspicion of the snow spike.
In Yukiho's view, it is not easy to survive and take root in this dark society.
She did not dare to trust and rely on anyone, because even the closest mother could betray and give up on herself.
She also knew that from the moment she was traded as a commodity, she had lost her lover's qualifications and rights in this life.
She could only hug herself tightly and not let herself become a puppet of fate. When she saw Ryoji lying cold on the ground, she passed by indifferently, never looking back at him once, like a white ghost floating in the world, faint and small.
Probably from this moment on, the only light in her life had disappeared, and there was no one to guard her, illuminating her already bleak life, and she fell into the abyss.
Although Ryoji and Yukiho killed their own demons and gained the chance and right to survive, all this presupposes hurting innocent people.
Perhaps it is the dissatisfaction of spreading her tragic past fujimura Toko, or perhaps it is the unaccustomed and fearful of her friend Eiko who has become more and more popular after she breaks the cocoon and is reborn, or perhaps it is to punish and warn Mika, who will do whatever it takes to take revenge and hurt them, using an invisible thread to control the humanoid puppets and skillfully control the lives of others.
And Ryoji also tried his best to cooperate with Yukiho to commit a vicious crime, so that his hands were stained with blood, as if he had become another demon. Just for their own survival and secrets, they disrupt the original smooth pace of life of others, so that innocent people live in the shadows for life, and even deprive others of their lives.
Can this life, which is based on the pain and humiliation of others, really live in peace? In exchange, it is only temporary and secretive.
In the end, when the veil of truth is ruthlessly lifted, everything seems so cruel that the two people who have become accustomed to living in the white night are forced to be interrogated by the sun, and without the protection of the night, they are like candles flickering in the breeze, which may be extinguished at any time.
Despite carrying many lives and staining his hands with blood, Ryoji's conscience has not been completely destroyed.
His gentleness throughout was out of a good nature.
He would say goodbye to his mother before leaving, would leave the computer shop for his friends, and would leave paper cuts to bless his friends and his girlfriends.
Yukiho will also carefully ask Natsumi. Their encounters let us see the complex and multifaceted aspects of human nature, white and black, black and white, and ruthlessness contains affection.
On the other hand, most of the people in the book do not want to make progress, have no enthusiasm and positivity for life, and are corrupt and degenerate, which is the truest portrayal of that society. Born in such a desperate era, everyone's choice has more or less helplessness, no matter how they struggle, they can't escape the clutches of fate.
We deplore not only the loss of life and the suffering that life itself brings, but also the people who struggled to survive in that society.