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Edited | Yue Yue Kan history
People often have stereotypes about the most vicious murderers, such as the appearance should be vicious, the eyes should be fierce: the personality should be irritable, selfish and cold-blooded.
And today we want to talk about the protagonist, he looks white, and the people who have gotten along with him say that he is humble and simple, is a graduate student and assistant professor at Virginia Tech, with a high degree and high IQ.
But he has another identity — the perpetrator of the 2009 Virginia Tech murders.
This handsome-looking, polite-looking man named Zhu Haiyang, in 2009, used a knife to cut off the head of a young woman.
Zhu Haiyang was born in 1984 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, from a well-off family, his father is a professor at a university in Ningbo, and his mother is a doctor.
From an early age, he grew up with the high expectations of his parents, who have always been strict with him.
Zhu Haiyang also lived up to expectations, from childhood to excellent results, the elders around him are very fond of him, see him praise him, it can be said that Zhu Haiyang has received a lot of attention since he was a child.
In order to maintain a "high standard", Zhu Haiyang did not slacken off until high school.
In 2001, he was admitted to the School of Economics and Trade of Shanghai Ocean University, because he was interested in English since he was a child, and Zhu Haiyang's English scores have always been among the best.
In the eyes of teachers and parents, he has always been a very polite, excellent student, in the eyes of his classmates, Zhu Haiyang treats people kindly, gets along very well, and will not put out the big shelf of school bully, nor can he see that he has a conceited mentality.
In the second year of university admission, Zhu Haiyang scored high all the way and passed the English level 4 and level 6 examinations.
In his senior year, he participated in the National College English Competition, riding away from many runners and winning the championship.
During the school period, the scholarship is even softer, it can be said that Zhu Haiyang is what we often call "other people's children".
His life, if not unexpected, should be enviable.
After graduating from college, Zhu Haiyang did not choose to work, but studied abroad and became a graduate student at Virginia Tech, which can be said to have a bright future.
At that time, as soon as the case was reported to be quickly fermented, the local international student circle was in an instant uproar, and soon the report spread to China, and people began to talk about the incident:
What did this good student, a good seedling, go through in the eyes of people, why did he commit a crime, and why did he use such cruelty?
Many netizens who do not know the truth have begun to speculate whether the victims Yang Xin and Zhu Haiyang have any deep hatred? Is it that Yang Xin has done a lot of things to be sorry for Zhu Haiyang? Is there any interest involved in this?
Such speculation is extremely irresponsible, because the victim of the case, Yang Xin, only had thirteen days from knowing Zhu Haiyang to being killed by Zhu Haiyang.
Let's rewind the time to the afternoon of January 8, 2009, when Zhu Haiyang and the victim Yang Xin met for the first time.
This is Yang Xin's first time in Virginia, she is only 22 years old, strange country, strange foreign faces on the street, all make her feel nervous and lonely.
Just when Yang Xin got out of the taxi and looked dazed at the school gate, Zhu Haiyang came forward to talk to her, asked her if she needed help, and after talking, after learning that the other party was also a Chinese student, Yang Xin's heart instantly settled.
This simple girl thought that she had met a kind and enthusiastic boy.
In fact, Zhu Haiyang did warmly receive this gentle-looking and generous student, taking her around Virginia Tech and introducing various considerations for study and life.
It was a holiday, the new students could not check in, Zhu Haiyang learned of this situation, enthusiastically let Yang Xin stay in his apartment outside the school.
Yang Xin felt too unwilling to go and wanted to give the rent to Zhu Haiyang, which won Zhu Haiyang's favor and refused the rent given to him by Yang Xin.
And Yang Xin couldn't have imagined that this enthusiastic and kind brother would, after thirteen days, in public, blatantly hold a kitchen knife, slash her eleven times in a row, and cruelly cut off her head.
The reason behind this is only because Yang Xin rejected Zhu Haiyang's courtship.
Although Zhu Haiyang seemed humble and courteous, his heart was extremely conceited.
In China, he is an excellent student representative in the department, a scholarship recipient every year, and the process of applying to study abroad is smoother than most.
His GRE math score of 800 out of 100, his essay difference of 1 out of 10, and his TOEFL score of 663, he considers himself a genius.
Therefore, he and Yang Xin confessed with confidence, thinking that this girl would definitely agree to his courtship.
He once said to his classmates that he thought Yang Xin was sweet in appearance and very pleasing in personality, and he wanted to chase her and win.
What he did not expect was that Yang Xin rejected him.
Zhu Haiyang regarded Yang Xin's refusal as a great shame, and he couldn't figure out what reason Yang Xin had to reject himself, would it be because he was shy? Zhu Haiyang pondered.
So he ran over to Yang Xin and said firmly, "No matter how many times, no matter how long, I must chase you!" ”
Zhu Haiyang, who has always been gentle, suddenly showed such a radical attitude, which made Yang Xin feel a little embarrassed.
She euphemistically explained to Zhu Haiyang that Zhu Haiyang was excellent, but she already had a Taiwanese boyfriend, and if Zhu Haiyang was willing to be friends with her, she was not disgusted, but she could not accept the request to become his girlfriend.
In the face of such an explanation, Zhu Haiyang was not moved, but showed his stubborn side, Yang Xin felt that it was not appropriate to live in Zhu Haiyang's apartment, and she quickly moved out of Zhu Haiyang's apartment.
As she refused again and again, Zhu Haiyang gradually became angry, and he began to hate Yang Xin, believing that she did not know how to lift and humiliate her love, such an act was unforgivable in his opinion.
Zhu Haiyang's major is not a popular major at Virginia Tech, he studied economic and trade management.
In the past, when I was in China, almost all the students of the school knew that there was a scholar named Zhu Haiyang, who scored high on TOEFL IELTS and won the first prize in the national English competition.
And in the United States, he did not have any fame in school, his profession was unpopular, coupled with many leaders, Zhu Haiyang, who had always been conceited, gradually had a kind of resentment that he did not meet and was not born at the right time.
At this time, Yang Xin repeatedly refused, making Zhu Haiyang feel that Yang Xin must have hated himself. He believes that what Yang Xin said about her Taiwanese boyfriend was a reason made up to reject him.
He also thought about the words he had sworn to pursue Yang Xin before, had Yang Xin secretly laughed at him behind his back?
He thinks that perhaps Yang Xin is not as simple as he sees, she is a cunning woman who plays herself around.
He kept drilling the tip of the bull's horn, and in the end, his mind was full of hatred - why yang Xin rejected himself!
So, a plan was formed in his mind, he was going to kill Yang Xin, if Yang Xin did not become his own girlfriend, then he could not let her be someone else's girlfriend.
Before deciding to kill, Zhu Haiyang called his father once, and the specific content of the call Zhu Haiyang's father did not disclose, but said that Zhu Haiyang had mentioned that he wanted to commit suicide and let his parents understand him.
On January 21, 2009, this was yang xin's thirteenth day in the United States.
This morning, Zhu Haiyang asked her to go to the café in the school canteen together, and the two of them each ordered a cup of coffee, and in the café at that time, in addition to Zhu Haiyang and Yang Xin, there were several students from the school.
According to those present at the time, the conversation between Zhu Haiyang and Yang Xin had always been soft and soft, and there was no place where the tone was intense.
Including Zhu Haiyang's expression, actions, speech and demeanor, there is no difference from usual.
However, before the cup of coffee was finished, Zhu Haiyang stood up, took out the kitchen knife in his backpack, and slashed at Yang Xin with force, who let out a cry of pain and then fell into a pool of blood.
The people around them screamed and ran to the outside of the café, not daring to go near Zhu Haiyang, who was holding a knife.
"He looks crazy, and although he has a calm expression, you can see the madness in his face." One of the witnesses said.
Zhu Haiyang was still unmoved, he walked to the opposite side of the table, faced Yang Xin, who had already fallen, and continued to slash down one knife after another, and finally, he cut off Yang Xin's neck with one knife.
He was not in a hurry the whole time, his expression was not a little flustered, and even when the police arrived, he was still smiling with his head in his hand.
Witnesses said that this terrible scene was like a purgatory on earth, and Zhu Haiyang was like an evil ghost in hell, with clothes and blood on his face, and the expression on his face was peaceful and terrifying.
Several of Zhu Haiyang's Chinese classmates expressed their disbelief when they heard the news.
"Zhu Haiyang is a very polite person who looks gentle and honest."
This was the impression of one of his classmates on him, and they didn't understand how such a person could make such an extreme move.
We often say that knowing people knows faces and does not know hearts, Zhu Haiyang is a good example, he is very good at disguising himself, the surface is sunny, humble and courteous, but in the depths of his invisible heart is incomparably dark.
Of all the evaluations of Zhu Haiyang, only the evaluation of Fang Dongge from Zhu Haiyang was negative.
He told the police that Zhu Haiyang was a man who was irritable and irritable, and he had asked Zhu Haiyang not to put matches on the carpet so as not to cause a fire, but Zhu Haiyang ignored it, so the two had a quarrel.
He also said that Zhu Haiyang was rude and aggressive, because he once ran to Virginia Tech to complain about Zhu Haiyang, and when Zhu Haiyang found out, he was very hostile to him, and every time he looked at him, he had a hateful glow.
Another school worker said that he had seen Zhu Haiyang standing alone in front of the window, his expression was very strange, and he was chanting some Chinese in his mouth, because he couldn't understand it, and he didn't know what Zhu Haiyang said at that time, but he only felt that his behavior was very strange, like a mental patient.
And these, Yang Xin did not know, she was in a good youth, think that refusing a confession is a common thing, who ever thought that it would actually bring her the disaster of killing.
A Chinese restaurant owner saw the beginning and end of the case in the newspaper, recognized Yang Xin as a girl who had come to his restaurant, and the boss recalled that Yang Xin was beautiful, had a good temperament, was kind and very talkative.
Yang Xin told the boss that she was from Chaoyang, Beijing, and last summer, she and her mother went to Tibet for a trip, and her mother bought her a prayer wheel to bless her with safety.
She also talked about her boyfriend and her own one south and one north, is Taiwanese, and also imitated the Taiwanese accent of her Taiwanese boyfriend with her boss.
The boss said that Yang Xin was dressed simply and looked like a simple student. Because the two people talked happily, Yang Xin also left him an email address, saying that he would often contact him in the future.
After the tragedy, the school contacted Yang Xin's family through the embassy, and Yang Xin's parents rushed to the United States and saw their daughter's body crying and fainting several times.
Virginia Tech asked Yang Xin's parents for advice on whether to hold a memorial service for Yang Xin in the United States, but Yang Xin's parents refused, bringing their daughter's ashes back to China for burial.
The daughter they had worked so hard to raise died under the knife of someone else.
The school also said that it would cooperate with the police investigation, and the staff of the Chinese Embassy also rushed to the school to negotiate with the school on relevant matters.
Zhu Haiyang pleaded guilty to the killing of Yang Xin on the spot, and after a circuit court trial, was eventually convicted of first-degree murder, and was convicted on April 19, 2010, and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, when Zhu Haiyang was 25 years old.
In court, Zhu Haiyang apologized to Yang Xin's parents, and Yang Xin's parents were emotional and did not accept this apology.
According to Zhu Haiyang, he was like this because he loved Yang Xin too much, and in court, he said some information that he had not said before.
He said that in the few days when Yang Xin lived in his apartment, the two people had already had a relationship, according to Zhu Haiyang, both of them were voluntary, but Yang Xin refused to fall in love with him and also sued him for rape.
Zhu Haiyang said he thought Yang Xin had insulted his love.
According to Zhang Mou, an international student in Yang Xin's dormitory, the boyfriend Yang Xin has always mentioned to her is a Taiwanese boy and did not mention Zhu Haiyang.
And she had seen that Yang Xin hung up Zhu Haiyang's phone with great disgust, but she did not understand that Yang Xin would often go to see Zhu Haiyang and often dine with Zhu Haiyang.
Zhu Haiyang took the precious lives of others, and he himself paid the price he deserved, but after seeing such results, some people actually complained about Zhu Haiyang, and some remarks that were obviously debated for "Zhu Haiyang" said:
Zhu Haiyang was victimized by depression, because he was excellent and admired in China, but after he went abroad, the aura on his body was no longer there, and he had the meaning of 'obscuring everyone'.
The huge gap coupled with academic pressure led to his psychological state gradually collapsing, and eventually his psychology was distorted, resulting in bad results.
Saying this is tantamount to stigmatizing depressed patients, most depressed people are excessively introspective about themselves, think that they are not good enough, and have a sense of disgust and guilt about their lives.
Most of the performance lies in not loving socialization, low mood, no interest in fresh people and things, and losing the motivation to continue walking on the next road of life, it can be said that depressed patients will not have the idea of taking the initiative to harm others in addition to torturing themselves.
If he could understand how precious Yang Xin's life was for her and her family.
Zhu Haiyang's Chinese classmates also said that Zhu Haiyang's personality is not lonely, most of the time he is very talkative, giving people a positive feeling.
The fact that Zhu Haiyang was under pressure was indeed not false, but this could not be one of the reasons for excusing him from committing a crime.
If Zhu Haiyang has academic pressure, then almost all Chinese students at Virginia Tech have pressure, but why does Zhu Haiyang only commit such extreme behavior?
In the final analysis, it is the reason why he is too conceited and that he does not regulate his mental state.
After the Zhu Haiyang incident, a domestic editor interviewed Henry Peng, an outstanding alumnus of Virginia Tech, and discussed with him the academic pressure of international students, mental health and other issues.
Henry Peng talked about his views on this:
"Everyone has pressure, when I studied abroad, when I was often busy writing papers and doing experiments, I encountered a little little thing in life, which may make me feel a feeling of how the days are so difficult."
But as soon as I think of my father's generation, I instantly calm my mood, compared to the suffering my father suffered when he was young, what am I?
At the very least, I can eat enough and wear warmly, I can get higher education, and I have seen a lot of life scenery along the way, what is the big deal about this little setback, I really can't go back to China, and I can't find a job when I go back as an international student.
People, sometimes it is easy to think about things too deadly, in the era of only thinking about survival, the threshold for people to get happiness is much lower than it is now.
Why is it that now that the conditions are better, the psychological pressure is greater than before? I think I still haven't jumped out of that circle of thought, and in essence, I still draw myself as a prison.
Then again, the pressure does exist, and if you're good at home, the gap abroad can be really uncomfortable.
However, while people are working hard, they also have to accept themselves.
It is impossible to say that you study physics, as soon as you go abroad, you are Einstein, you are the second Yang Zhenning, in front of the real field bulls, everyone is an ordinary person, calming down and maintaining a healthy physical and mental state is the most important. ”
Henry Peng also said:
"Public elementary schools in the United States, middle schools, as opposed to China, learn very simply, and the rhythm of the whole school is very loose.
China's public schools usually attach great importance to children's grades, and the pace is relatively tight, but when it comes to college, this situation is reversed.
In domestic universities, if you want to be a salted fish, you just need to set your goal at the passing line, but in American universities, even if it is only passing, you have to make a lot of effort.
Coupled with the fact that the native language of Chinese students is not English, everything in the United States needs to be adapted, and it is necessary to adapt quickly in order not to fall behind. ”
When the editor asked Henry Peng how to face and solve this psychological pressure, he replied.
"Or that sentence, ordinary heart, don't always think, I studied abroad, went abroad, I am particularly strong how to how, so think, psychological pressure must be large, equivalent to their own shackles.
Don't be overly obsessed with a certain emotion that makes you uncomfortable, and when you encounter something that makes you uncomfortable, you can let go.
When I was studying in Virginia, there were some things that made me uncomfortable, but after I realized that tangling these things didn't help me in my life, I never let myself think about it again, but quickly turned the page. ”
It is true that throughout our lives, whether it is study, work, love, it is only a part of life, not all.
A good mentality is more important than anything else, and I hope that we can all look at the gains and losses of life with a peaceful attitude.
Like a line in Benjamin Button's The Miracle: "God will always take away our beloved people and things to remind us of how important they are." ”
Another example is the ancient poem Youyun: "The good things in the world are not solid, and the clouds are easy to scatter and shatter." "It is very common to tell us that it is a very common thing to lose.
From the moment we are born, we are destined to feel all kinds of things in the world, such as happiness, such as suffering, only in this way can we form our complete life.
When suffering comes, we don't have to indulge in it, we don't have to keep asking the world, why should I go through this suffering? Because when happiness comes, we have not asked the world, why do I experience this happiness?
What we should do is to calm our minds when we encounter setbacks, open the way in the mountains, build bridges in the face of water, but do good deeds and do not ask about the future.
If Zhu Haiyang could have understood at the beginning, Yang Xin's refusal was just a trivial matter in his life.
If he had understood that with a normal heart the glory gained and the pain of loss, then this tragedy would not have happened.
At the same time, the relationship between family education is also very important, children often have parents long-term mapping and the formation of personality characteristics, in the process of educating children, parents should not expect too much from their children for a long time, should provide more emotional support for children.
Many children still have emotional deficits after they grow up, and they do not have proper and effective communication with their parents.
It can be seen from the Zhu Haiyang incident that although he has made remarkable achievements along the way, his values are actually problematic, which is very much related to his growth process.
If Zhu Haiyang's parents often communicate emotionally with their children instead of always having too high expectations for him, I believe that he will not go to extremes.
It's not that parents shouldn't expect anything from their children, but rather with modest expectations.
It can be slightly higher than the child's current level, but it is the child's expectations that can be achieved through hard work, and the long-term high requirements for the child are easy to have much psychological pressure and excessive ideological baggage, and eventually form an abnormal psychological state.
Unfortunately, the old days do not come again, the past can not be traced, but I hope that everyone will learn to adjust their mentality, face the gains and losses of life, and do not appear the next "Zhu Ocean".