In the fate of Keigo Higashino, Misako has been puzzled. She is introverted and plain-looking, and never believes that she can work in a big star enterprise with her qualifications.
And as soon as I entered the company, I became the secretary of the chairman and followed the top leader. Soon, she married the boss's eldest son, Yan Huang. The smoothness and rapidity of things made Misako feel the magic of fate.
But whether before marriage or after marriage, Misa can't really enter Yan Huang's heart. She felt pain-no feeling of love, no communication, no understanding. The idea of divorce rose in Misako's heart in vain.
What does fate want to play?
As a turning point in Keigo Higashino's writing, Destiny began to turn from the pure reasoning characteristics of previous works to the concern for human nature. Fate is not the peak of Dongye, but it is definitely the beginning of his title of "human writer".
Keigo Higashino, who was born in engineering science, has his own unique understanding of the development of science and technology and ethics. If the emotional fog in Destiny is cleared away, readers will find that he originally wanted to express a negative attitude towards the sword-leaning technique.
Why is Huangyan so cold to Misako in Destiny? Because he has a big secret in his heart.
This secret involves a person's family's remorse for the harm that technology has brought to mankind, Misako's life experience, and the contest between madness and reason. Things are complicated, so even if Akihiko wanted to talk to his wife, he kept silent, showing the coldness of keeping people away.
The background of the story can be traced back to the 1950s and 1960s.
Defeated Japan should not only focus on rebuilding the bombed-out city and the collapsed economy, but also face the psychological and brain problems of the soldiers who participated in the war. In particular, their brains often produce confusion and pain, which makes them miserable.
Therefore, an engineering expert cooperated with a medical expert to set up a studio in order to try a way to alleviate this pain.
At first, they experimented with small animals such as cats and dogs. They put the electrode on the animal's head and then turn on the power. Animals will react differently when stimulated by electric current. Some become quiet and peaceful, some become more restless, and some die directly.
Through a large number of animal experiments, the two scholars believe that experiments can be carried out on humans. Seven poor people became the target of their purchase. During the experiment, four people escaped, two died and one became an imbecile.
Technology can save people and harm others!
The two scholars regretted starting the experiment very much and decided to stop everything and seal the experimental notes.
Huangyan is the grandson of one of the scholars. He kept in mind his grandfather's teaching and must find the four missing people and relieve the crisis in their hearts. So, around this theme, many coincidences happened, including Misako being the daughter of one of four people.
Because of his background in electrical engineering, Keigo Higashino's works used science and technology to tell things many times. For example, in the sleeping mermaid's home, machines are used to stimulate spinal nerves, so that the dead can move their limbs and even produce facial expressions. For example, in The Equation of Midsummer, the ocean is explored with the power of science and technology.
Dongye's latest work Venus in Danger almost repeats the theme of fate. It is also the result of brain stimulation test, which leads to injury. At this point, what impressed readers is not Dongye's unexpected plot arrangement, but his true concern for mankind.
Dongye once said:
It is not advisable to take advantage of others' poverty and buy them off to do an illegal and deadly experiment at any time, even if the purpose is for the future human welfare.
As for some people who have evil thoughts and expect to control their brains through radio waves, and then control their emotions and satisfy their evil desires, they should be banned.
There was a murder case on Destiny, and the police officer in charge of investigating the case was biased against Huangyan and always thought that Huangyan had done something bad. Therefore, all Yongzuo's investigations are centered on "finding out the criminal evidence of Huangyan".
Dongye's writing also intentionally misleads readers and follows the brave thinking. The end result is that the two men achieve the same goal through different routes, and everything they do is to contain evil.
Yongzuo is an excellent policeman. He got excellent grades since he was a child, but due to family economic reasons, he had to give up studying medicine and choose to join the police.
No matter in which country, education plays an important role in a person's career promotion. Therefore, Yongzuo, who has a low education, has to work several times harder than others to become an excellent inspector.
However, in the case of Huangyan, Yongzuo became particularly subjective.
Both of them are classmates from primary school to middle school. You Yong has always been the best in his class. But no matter how hard he tried, he was easily defeated by Akihiko in all aspects. This makes Yong Zuo very depressed. He pays attention to Huangyan, hates Huangyan and even envies him.
When Yongzuo found out in the investigation that Huang Yan's wife turned out to be his favorite first lover, Misa, his mood for Huang Yan suddenly rose-the best person in life also lost to his opponent! So jealousy makes Yongzuo deviate from the truth of the case more and more.
Catholic doctrine holds that there are seven deadly sins of human nature. The order from heavy to light is: arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony and lust. It was the second-ranked "jealousy" that blinded Yongzuo's eyes and magnified his dissatisfaction with Huangyan, thus creating a blind spot in the case.
Blind spot originally refers to the physiological blind spot in medicine-the lack of optic cells at the contact of optic disc nerve, so the light falling there is not perceived, so it is called blind spot.
In life, because of anger, vulnerability, jealousy and other emotions, people's thinking is blocked in a certain direction and they can't see the truth clearly. This is the so-called "psychological blind spot". The work of the brave in fate is a psychological blind spot.
Psychological blind spots will be used by people with ulterior motives. Keigo Higashino's superb writing style also lies in his good use of human psychological blind spots. This is his work, the secret of unpredictable ending that amazes readers.
What you think you think, not what you think.
In the most impressive work The Dedication of Suspect X, Dongye dares to tell the truth at the beginning of the novel, which is the ultimate use of psychological blind spots.
Even if the reader knows the truth, he can't guess the process. Without the process, there is not enough evidence to prove the result. Even the police in the novel can't find the answer. The more logical they think, the farther away they are from the truth.
This is the charm of Keigo Higashino's works.
This is also the cleverness of fate.
If we want to say that "fate" is insufficient, it is that there are too many coincidences. Whether it is the plot setting or the dialogue between characters, the book is full of intentional or unintentional "predestined" arguments. In this regard, some people think that fate has reached the point of dog blood, completely out of the normal level of Keigo Higashino.
But this work was supposed to tell the truth behind fate. Therefore, Dongye played the "fate" to the extreme, which can also be said to be an alternative way of playing. The wonder of this novel is that it leads to the opposite view of "technology stops at" and "fate".