Once upon a time there was a vicious vow - may all the people who love each other in the world be brothers and sisters!
Love is beautiful, but if you really encounter such a tragedy, what is it like?
In his classic book "I Killed Him", Keigo Higashino tells the story of two brothers and sisters falling in love, which makes people feel sad and lament.
Takahiro Kamabayashi and Mikako Kamabayashi are brothers and sisters of the same father and mother, and when the two were about ten years old, tragedy suddenly struck, their parents who were out running errands were killed in a car accident on the way back, and the two children who were only ten years old became orphans.
The two were sent to an acquaintance's house, separated from each other, and never seen again in fifteen years.
During these fifteen years, they lived separately, with Takahiro Kamayashi becoming a university teacher, and his sister Miwako Kamabayashi becoming a college graduate and embarking on a social life to start working.
After the death of their parents, the ancestral house of the Shenlin family was requisitioned by his father's company. It was not until fifteen years later that the two returned to the ancestral house of the Shenlin family, to the house where childhood memories were recorded.
I thought the story would be happy here. The two brothers and sisters whose parents died early lived together again after fifteen years, and the ancestral house once again had the continuation of the family, however, the two people living under the same roof did not only have brother and sister feelings in their hearts, but also the feelings of the opposite sex.
One night, the two people who could not control their feelings came together, although they knew that this kind of "love" was not tolerated by the world, and they would not be blessed by their relatives and friends.
Perhaps condemned by her conscience, even with the person she likes, Miwako is still uneasy in her heart, and the "love affair" between the two hidden in the dark is deformed and cannot have a result.
Not long after, Miwako met her later marriage partner, writer and director Hotaka Makoto, and the two quickly crossed the period of love and soon became engaged.
At this time, Miwako is tormented in her heart, living with her "lover" brother makes him suffer, and many times she does not know how to face this brother who is both a relative and a "lover", she has always hoped that she can become a normal woman, get married and have children.
Miwako's anguished heart pursues everything a normal woman should pursue, trying to break off her relationship with her brother, but in the lounge on the wedding day, the two still kiss together.
Miwako's wedding may have fallen by fate, the groom died of poisoning in the middle of the wedding, and Miwako, who married for the first time, lost the groom permanently before she completed her wedding, and such a heavy blow made her collapse.
In her heart, she still regards herself as hotaru's wife, and even wants to find the murderer of the groom by her own strength, perhaps for her, it does not matter who the murderer is, what is important is that she has fulfilled the responsibility of a wife, which is also the salvation of Miwako's inner self, saving herself from the deformed brother-sister relationship.
When the criminal police officer Kyoichiro Kaga finds the three suspects together for a confrontation, the murderer is once unsure, and Miwako, who is on the verge of collapse, bursts into tears and shouts the following words:
Miwako's cries grew louder. She held her head in both hands and shook her head in pain.
"I don't understand what's going on, it doesn't matter who the murderer is, tell me the answer quickly!" ”
This lightning-like wedding that began to end tragically, for Miwako, is not a simple love belonging, but a kind of redemption of herself in her heart, a way to save herself from the unseemly "brother-sister deformed love", which is the yearning and transition of her wanting to be a normal woman.
Keigo Higashino has very little ink on Miwako's portrayals, and "I Killed Him" is mainly based on the self-narration of Takahiro Kamibana, Naoyuki Suruga, and Kaori Gakusa, using a first-person narration throughout. Miwako Kamibura's description is mainly based on the words, deeds and cognition of the three people's perspective, but there is no doubt that miwako's portrayal is a key part of the book.
Through the third perspective, Higashino vividly depicts the painful situation of Miwako's deeply deformed brother-sister love and the tragic pain of the widow at the wedding scene, and at the end of the story, a self-redeeming woman appears on the paper, both sad and painful.
"I Killed Him" is a more unusual work in Keigo Higashino's writing career, which is different from the previous third-person descriptions, but is created through the first perspective of three people.
The three people's first perspective of narration is interlocked, and the connection between the front and back is perfect, changing the traditional novel pattern and making Higashino fan read it in front of his eyes.