The Sleeping Forest, the second installment of Kyoichiro Kaga's detective series (also known as the "Malice" series), sold more than 1 million copies in Japan. But at this time, Uncle Dong's writing was still slightly green, and he did not write out the Benge reasoning very well, but more like writing a beautiful love story, of course, this is a book about love, a book about chasing dreams, a book about logical reasoning, and it is still worth spending time reading.
The following is an excerpt from the 2012 edition of Nanhai Publishing House.
Takayanagi Ballet is about to perform the classic play "Sleeping Beauty". A few hours before the performance, the company rehearsed. On the stage, the princess was stabbed by a spindle and did not wake up; offstage, the artistic director of the on-site conductor suddenly lost his voice and was stabbed in the back by a poisonous needle. The whole dance troupe seems to have been under the spell of a fairy tale. The performance proceeded as usual. On the stage, the princess awakens under the light kiss of the prince, and the people around her are also freed from their slumber; while some people in the dance troupe are poisoned, some people commit suicide, and the bridge section of the story where the whole city falls into a deep sleep is becoming a reality. Seeing that the second performance is about to start again...
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Detective Kaga has gone from being a graduate of the previous film to a police officer who searches for a lesson, is it he who ultimately chooses between the teacher and the police? This answer can be found in stories later in the Kaga series. At this time, Kaga did not have the sharp eyes in "Red Finger" and "Malice", nor did he have the calm and leisure in the face of the suspect, but this is the growing him, just like when we read the works of Uncle Dong in different periods, there is a subtle feeling of growing up with them.
In terms of Kaga's emotional line, he bid farewell to the youthful love affair of the university period, and this 30-year-old Kaga gradually fell in love with the ballet dancer in the progress of the case, and was also the suspect of the case. After the curtain of the final drama "Sleeping Beauty" in which Wei Xu finally starred as he wished, Kaga told his love. At that time, how entangled he was in his heart, choosing between sensibility and reason, he had to personally send the people he loved and wanted to protect to the law to be judged, which may be the cold appearance of Uncle Dong's Kaga with veins and tenderness.