White Night: The Sun Below the Horizon

Do you know white nights? It was the sun that fell below the horizon, and because of the scattering of light, even at night, the sky was bright, and that was the sunlight coming from below the horizon.

This book review is not a technical flow, but only expresses some of its own feelings, involving relevant plot reveals.

I was fortunate enough to finish reading Keigo Higashino's "White Night Walk" during the epidemic period, in which the author used one sad, depressing and dark event fragment after another to record the story of two people who only fulfilled the wish of "being able to walk hand in hand in the sun". Walking under the white night is the almost crazy obsession of Karasawa Yukiho and Kirihara Ryo, and it is also a beautiful cover for them to wield their scythes at her in the dark.

With his usual style, concise words, and bland tone, Keigo Higashino once again portrayed a story that could not be calmed for a long time, and once recalled, the dark speculation and reflection on human nature in the book collided in the hearts of our readers. Compared with the book's sister article "Phantom Night", "White Night" does not have a direct description of the hearts and intersections of the male and female protagonists, if "Phantom Night" is to make "White Night" wake up in another way, then "White Night" is really a story in the dark, and all between them needs us readers to peel away the cocoon from the book little by little, just like the puzzle game is completed to the end, and then say: Look, I guessed it.

"There is no sun in my sky, it is always night, but it is not dark, because something has replaced the sun."

Snow Spike's monologue, if you haven't read this novel, you must have seen this sentence and think that this may be a story about love and redemption. But what about the facts?

Karasawa Yukiho is an impeccable woman in all aspects, she has courage and beauty, and at the same time she is also psychologically twisted, because she has a dark and repressive childhood - her mother, Nishimoto, who is from a dusty background, has repeatedly pimped her own daughter, which is a pair of hands that push Snow Spike into the bottomless abyss. At the other end of the story, Ryoji Kirihara, he raised his dagger and stabbed his father with his own hands, and when he witnessed his father's criminal behavior, he lost his father because he was sad and sad in his heart. Thus, they became people who lived in the dark. Ryoji later kills several people in order to protect Yukiho, while making money by selling pirated games to make a living and supporting Yukiho. Yukiho marries into the Shinozuka family after escaping from her original family through various means, and also hurts Kang Qing's daughter through various means of harm, calculating that she has been defiled.

They just want to protect their souls. As a result, Yukiho never shows his true colors, and Ryoji still wanders in the dark ventilation duct

Thick darkness, suppressed to the point of not being able to breathe, if there is a chance to choose again, will they work together to get out of the darkness, out of the white night, to see the sun on the horizon?