My thoughts after reading "The Street of Dawn"

On the recommendation of Teacher Xiaoyang, I finished reading this work by Keigo Higashino. I read a little bit every day. The book is not thick and the plot development is quite attractive. I will not feel tired after reading the whole book.

The story is described in the first person "I". So much so that during the reading process, I had a particularly strong sense of immersion, and I could always keep up with the psychological activities of the protagonist Watanabe. When describing the scene, it was very visual. Reading the entire text, it was like watching a movie, but it was better than the movie. The detailed descriptions are more realistic and meticulous.

Higashino-kun uses an extramarital affair to unfold the plot, and spends a lot of energy describing the personal emotional changes after Watanabe cheated on Akiha. This is probably due to the Japanese's customary rigor and attention to detail, and the description technique is very delicate. , it vividly portrays the guilt of a cheating man who lied to his wife in order to date his lover, the entanglement of being unable to stop having sex with his lover, wanting a divorce but fearing that his wife and children will be harmed.

A robbery and murder occurred in the heroine Nakanishi Akiba's house on March 30, 15 years ago. Her father's beautiful female secretary was stabbed in the heart and died at home. At the same time, she was at home. Qiuye played the clarinet on the second floor. When Qiuye's aunt arrived, Qiuye fainted and was put on the bed. She called Qiuye's father, who hurriedly called the police. At this time, the deceased's bag was missing, and one of the windows in the house was open, but all fingerprint clues were erased, and the murderer has not been found for so many years. In Japan, the validity period of criminal cases is 15 years. After 15 years, criminal liability will no longer be pursued. The 15-year deadline is coming soon, so the police and the deceased's sister stepped up their search for the murderer.

Because of his relationship with Akiba, Watanabe has become a key figure in finding a breakthrough in the case. He hopes that Watanabe can learn some important but undisclosed truths from Akiba. This promotes the development of the storyline. On White Day, March 14th, which was about to turn 15 years ago, Qiuye went to the bar run by his aunt to get drunk and revealed to the deceased's sister that when his father's secretary died, the windows at home were locked and no one could see through it. Entering from the outside or escaping from the inside, the secret she has kept for 15 years can prove that this accident was not a theft and homicide. At that time, only Qiuye and his father's secretary were at home, and Qiuye became the biggest suspect. At the same time, Watanabe lied to his wife many times on important holidays, went out to celebrate the festival with Qiuye and promised to divorce and be with Qiuye. He was under tremendous psychological pressure. On the one hand, he was enjoying the passion brought to him by the extramarital affair, and on the other hand, he was Unwilling to give up her peaceful married life, complex emotions surged into her heart. At this point, the entire storyline reaches its climax.

Finally. At 24:00 on March 30, it means that the 15-year statute of limitations has expired and everyone is relieved. Together with Watanabe, she called her father and aunt, and told her that when the murder occurred 15 years ago, she took a large amount of sleeping pills from her mother, lay in bed, hesitated before vomiting, and then her aunt and After his father came, he immediately assumed that Qiuye was the one who killed him, because the secretary was his father's lover, and his mother committed suicide not long after her divorce. He ordered her to tell the police that she fainted and fell to the ground after discovering the deceased, and it was her aunt who held her on the bed. My father and aunt wiped away all the fingerprints, opened a window, hid the deceased's bag, and faked it to be the scene of a theft and murder. Only then did his father ask Qiuye if she had killed him. Only then did Qiuye reveal the mystery and restore the truth, saying that she did not kill anyone and that the secretary committed suicide.

The secretary left a suicide note. It turned out that Qiuye's father had been cheating on his aunt after marriage. The condition for divorce proposed by Qiuye's mother was that her father tell her who her lover was, but the affair of cheating on her aunt made it difficult for him. If the mother knew the truth, she would not agree to the divorce. So during the days when his father was separated from his mother, he cultivated his secretary to be his lover, and told his mother that he cheated on his secretary before he wanted a divorce. His mother committed suicide not long after the divorce, so this article became a cover-up for the extramarital affair between his father and his aunt. smoke bomb.

The secretary who really loved his father couldn't accept the fact when he found out the truth, so he stuck a knife in his chest and committed suicide. After finding out, his aunt and father decided that Akiba had killed her because he hated the secretary because of her mother's death, so they asked Dou Without asking, I made a series of things to cover the autumn leaves. Qiuye secretly determined to conceal the truth as long as her father didn't ask, and let her father and aunt suffer in the days of protecting her, in order to apologize to the deceased. At the same time, in order to retaliate against her father and aunt, Qiuye deliberately had an affair with the married Watanabe I develop into a lover, experience an extramarital affair, and want to know what it feels like. After revealing the truth, Akiba broke up with Watanabe to prevent Watanabe from making a foolish move of divorce. Watanabe was also to blame for the time he was being used.

The weakness of human nature is that it is easy to indulge in lust. In the face of marriage, you must abide by the moral bottom line, respect your wife and children, and do not be moved by the temptation of passion. Although it is not easy, once you commit a foul, you will definitely pay a heavy price.