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What a terrible crime? In order to find out the truth, a prosecutor can go through ten years and pay countless prices for his youth, career, reputation, future, family, etc., and even his own life.
As the original novel of the web drama "The Silent Truth", "The Long Night Is Difficult to Understand" gives readers a shocking truth. The author, Zijin Chen, is young and full of talent, and has created the "King of Reasoning" series of popular reasoning works. "The Long Night Is Difficult to See" tells the story of an unjust case and rehabilitation, which has written ten years of blood, tears and vicissitudes. "Iron bones, blood and tears for ten years, but every step closer to the truth, he is closer to despair."
"The Long Night" has a seemingly vulgar beginning: a funny lawyer, who was arrested after killing people and transporting his body through a subway station, quickly confessed to the crime, became the talk of people after tea and dinner, and set off a wave of public opinion frenzy. In the boring but also most eye-catching news of ordinary life, every viewer made no secret of their bad taste for the heavy taste of the hilarious drama, gently sliding their fingers and laughing at the vicious incident by clicking, commenting on and forwarding it. As everyone knows, he has unconsciously stepped onto the stage of serial crimes, becoming a pawn in the hands of the mastermind, and jointly opening the dark prelude to this story of unjust rehabilitation...
Hou Guiping, a rural volunteer teacher, found clues of a vicious case in the process of volunteer teaching. He tried several times to report the crime, but was repeatedly suppressed. Evil rages like a raging wind, but justice is easily snuffed out in its cradle. In order to cover up one crime after another, Weng Meixiang, Hou Guiping, Ding Chunmei, Wang Haijun... The temperature of several lives froze in the cold long night.
Peeling back the shell of unjust case rehabilitation, the story filled in "The Long Night Is Difficult to See" is related to ideals and beliefs. It is not a thick little book of reasoning, but it has written about the blood and tears and vicissitudes of ten years: the upside down of black and white, the contest between good and evil, the torment of compromise and conscience, the struggle between sinking and justice...
The sensitivity of the subject matter dooms the hardships of publishing. "The Long Night" may be a special product of a special era, it represents one of many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, through which we see countless sweat and efforts for people who uphold legal justice.
In this story, the complexity of human nature can be glimpsed. Every little person is not a single-faced existence, such as Jiang Yang and others, who have the side of adhering to ideals, but also the contradictions and self-doubts that want to bow to reality. The left-right swing between a great future and boundless darkness is an emotional struggle that any normal person might have. It is precisely because of such a complex portrayal of human nature that the characters are more vivid and three-dimensional, and the story is more real and moving.
Hou Guiping, an ordinary and upright village teacher, experienced boundless darkness at his youngest age, surrounded by despair, died of cruelty, and even endured all kinds of malicious slander after death. He did not have the opportunity to give up, but he never gave himself the opportunity to choose, even if there were all kinds of persuasion and resistance around him, even if he had to face the temptation of money and the intimidation of power. Because what he wants is not a life of scruples and chaos, but an iron-boned frankness. Perhaps learning to compromise is a sign of a person's maturity, but never giving up requires firmer faith and courage.
Li Jianguo and his ilk should be spurned by people who abuse their power for personal gain, reverse black and white, and arbitrarily trample on the dignity of the law. However, what is even more sad is that Yue Jun, Ding Chunmei, Wang Haijun and their families have easily become accomplices of power in the face of money and power, and have lost the most basic goodness and humanity. As the old saying goes: from good to ascend, from evil to collapse. For society as a whole, every loss of conscience will paint a more gloomy undertone for the night.
Fortunately, there are still a group of people like Jiang Yang who are willing to fight for their ideals - policemen who insist on justice, procurators with a pure heart, lawyers who love to take risks, forensic doctors with conscience... The four guardians of the law, with the determination and courage of the moth to put out the fire, exchanged for a verdict close to justice and endless fear and lamentation. Reality is never beautiful, it is cruel and gray, but always full of hope.
Zijin Chen once admitted that his writing is not very good, and he is not good at delicate emotions and dialogue descriptions. From his concise and condensed style, you can indeed feel the calmness of this kind of words like gold. Therefore, in previous works, whether it is Luo Wen's thoughts about his wife and daughter in "Undocumented Crimes", or Chen Jin's protection of Gan Jianning in "The Counterattack of the Chemical Queen", or Li Weiping's dedication to Luo Huihui in "The Spokesperson of the God of Death", the description of emotions is always point-to-point, restrained and forbearing.
"Long Night Hard to See" follows his usual refined style, compared to the previous personal grudges, the theme of "Long Night Hard to See" is obviously more magnificent and atmospheric. If Zijin Chen's previous works have won with exquisite layout and meticulous logic, this time the author abandons any showmanship and tells the story of social reasoning that has been rehabilitated in the past ten years in a multi-line narrative manner. It's not even quite like a mystery story, because when you try to trace the puzzle from the perspective of the three elements of a speculative fiction, you will find that in this intricate tug-of-war, the murderer, the motive, and the way of committing the crime are no longer important.
It's hard to read The Long Night without thinking of two movies: The Melting Pot and The Life of David Gore. It is also a brave work that shocks people's hearts, and the courageous persistence of Jiang Yang and others is more like the teacher Ren Hao in "The Melting Pot": "We fight all the way, not to change the world, but to not be changed by the world." And the ultimate moth-like destruction is similar to the helpless sacrifice of those who support the abolition of the death penalty in David Gore. However, this similarity is not a clumsy imitation, but a very natural laying out and fusion in a new story.
Some people have criticized Zijin Chen's story is always full of anger. Judging from the previous "High IQ Crime" series and the "King of Reasoning" series, he does prefer the theme of criminals using high IQ crime methods to frequently wander the fringes of the law. Although Zhu Chaoyang in "Bad Boy" is sympathetic, his actions are too sinister and cruel, beyond the ability of normal people to bear; while "Undocumented Crimes" uses Luo Wen's personal grudge as the emotional support behind the story, and his act of killing is not worthy of praise. In response, Zijin Chen replied: "I only want to write a good story, and I have no intention of exporting values." ”
However, this frank and almost simple reasoning writer wrote a self-subversion work with absolutely correct values in "The Long Night", not only writing himself to tears, but also abusing countless readers. It is hard to imagine the joy of finally reaching the light after a long night, even if all you see is a faint candlelight, swaying but representing a faint glow of hope.
No matter how dark the night is, there will always be a moment of dawn, and it is worth the waiting and persistence of all of us.