The Long Cloister: Revenge Caused by the Sudden Disillusionment of Sister-brother Love

The newly released Dragon Cloister is the original novel of the online drama Cloister Pavilion starring Deng Jiajia, which was released on June 9, 2020. This book was written by Japanese writer Keigo Higashino at 199 1, and it is full of case reasoning. This work is not only welcomed by readers because it tells a reasoning story, but also photographed many times. As early as 20 1 1, Japan released a film version called "Killing in the Cloister Pavilion". In recent years, a high-profile stage play adapted from China has also toured around.

In short, The Long Corridor tells a story of revenge caused by the sudden disillusionment of a sweet brother-sister relationship. The key to being favored by all walks of life is that there are many attractive elements in this story, such as: gradual reasoning, human nature shown in the struggle for inheritance, revenge of sadness and despair, plot from a female perspective and so on.

First of all, The Long Corridor is Keigo Higashino's original work of reasoning in his early years, among which readers like solving puzzles best. Readers who are familiar with Keigo Higashino know that his early works mainly focus on mystery novels and pay more attention to the design of patterns; The more new works in recent years, the closer they are to today's social life, and may even have nothing to do with the case, so there is no reasoning that readers expect. In this novel, the heroine Tongsheng Pear is an ugly woman who narrowly escaped from the fire. Her lover, Kojiro, was killed not only in the fire, but also in a traffic accident. After fleeing, he committed suicide and tried to drag her to double suicide.

For Tongsheng, who just started the sweet sister-in-law relationship, a sudden fire took away her beloved Jiro. How can she bear such a heavy blow? Who will kill them? Is the other party's goal her secretary who almost became the president's wife, or Jiro, the illegitimate child of the president? By solving these mysteries, the story unfolds step by step. Although the key figure in the story is not a police officer with strong logical reasoning ability like Kaga Kyouichirou, he is also approaching the truth behind the case layer by layer. After all, Tong Sheng is not a policeman or a detective. Perhaps her analysis is not comprehensive and meticulous, and sometimes there are some wrong judgments, but her reasoning is more in line with the logic of ordinary people and easier for readers to understand.

Secondly, the story of the long corridor involves the inheritance of a large number of heritages. President Shinohara Takashi has no wife and children to inherit the family business, but an illegitimate child. People who know this should only help him find his son's boy. No one else in family of origin knows the existence of this illegitimate child. They only know that they have a certain proportion of inheritance rights to this high-profile heritage, so most of them are full of illusions and expectations for this heritage.

The decrease of competitors will undoubtedly increase the proportion of the ultimate heir to inherit the estate. This also makes the relationship between several members of family of origin more tense and subtle. Each of them suspects that the other party may be the real murderer fighting for the inheritance, and even openly points out the difficulties faced by the other family and the urgent need for the inheritance. Although we are all relatives, there is no blood relationship between them in the face of a huge legacy. Keigo Higashino's description of this episode fully shows the selfish and greedy side of human nature.

Thirdly, the love story written by Keigo Higashino has always been one of the key factors that moved me most in his works. For example, Kirihara Ryouji in The Nightwalker killed his pedophile father in order to save Karasawa Yukiho in his childhood, and later committed many murders for Xuesui. Another example is Shi Shenzhe in "The Dedication of Suspect X". In order to help his beloved Huagang Shizuko cover up the truth of his negligent killing of her ex-husband, he deliberately misled the police and even killed an innocent tramp himself. In the Long Corridor, there is a story that Tong Sheng retaliates against the mental trauma caused by the loss of his lover, and even dies with the principal offender, thus guarding the sweet and innocent love.

Only by reading the whole story can readers understand how much Tongsheng cherishes that love and how much she hates the culprit who ruined her love. Since she attended Gao Xian's funeral and decided to find out the truth behind the crime, she was determined to set herself on fire with the principal offender. Because from the moment she learned that Jiro was killed in the fire, she had understood a cruel fact. How can she allow someone to ruin her good memories of love? So she would rather die with each other than face the complete disillusionment of love.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that the story of Long Abbey is unfolded from the perspective of the heroine Tong Sheng. It is reported that this is a novel written from the perspective of the only hostess in Keigo Higashino. After all, there are more than 90 works by Keigo Higashino, and I haven't read all of them, so I dare not assert this uniqueness. But among many of his works I have seen, they are really unique. I have the impression that he has created many novels with women as the leading role, but most of them are started from the third-person perspective, such as The Secret, The Relief of the Saint, The Sleeping Mermaid's House and so on. In my impression, Keigo Higashino is not a male writer who understands women's psychology and personality, and this idea has also been confirmed in his autobiographical works.

According to the "self-explanation" in Keigo Higashino's "Last Greetings", when referring to "The Long Cloister", "The murder of the masquerade villa didn't sell well, so I want to challenge this case reasoning again in another way. It's just that the protagonist of this book is a woman and it's difficult to write. I even thought about not setting women as protagonists in the future. " It seems that Keigo Higashino himself is very nervous about creating from a female perspective! In my opinion, Tong Sheng is an activist in his works. He didn't have too many inner entanglements, but made a quick decision and then put it into action directly. This makes me feel that Tong Sheng is not only ugly, but also a very capable woman, and has not shown the inferiority and self-confidence that this role should have in psychology and character. Perhaps this is the most difficult thing for Keigo Higashino to grasp, the complexity of women's psychology and personality.

Generally speaking, in addition to the attractive elements mentioned above, the design of the long corridor also includes killing people in the secret room, confusing people with the news of suspended animation, pretending to be an old lady for revenge and so on. All these enhance the story of this novel. Although there are some small details, there may still be some places where the narrative is not clear enough and easy to cause ambiguity. However, after watching the adaptation of Japanese movies, I feel that the setting of the original novel is more reasonable.

For example, in the movie, Tong Sheng plays Miyoko, the daughter of Kikuji after plastic surgery. Now that she has become a beautiful young girl, even if there is a scar on her forehead that needs to be covered with hair, why should she wear a wig instead of arousing the suspicion of the police? In the original work, Tongsheng is a chrysanthemum generation disguised as white hair. Because the dyeing effect is not ideal, I cut off all the real hair and put on a wig. Because Tong Sheng pretends to be an old lady, he can get rid of the suspicion of killing Yuxiang and jumping into the pond to leave footprints. In the movie, there is another doubt about pretending to be a Miyoko boy.