Degaussing

In 1997, when 11-year-old He Xin was selecting music tapes at the flea market, he accidentally met Wei Lai, who also liked listening to music. From then on, the two became inseparable friends. Once, He Xin accidentally learned while eavesdropping on a conversation between his parents that Wei Lai's mother Liu Zhi had suffered from depression after she divorced her husband. The young He Xin did not know the horror of depression, which paved the way for subsequent tragedies. In 1998, two days before He Xin's birthday, Wei Lai gave him a beautiful tape as a gift. That night, He Xin planned to stay at his friend's house for dinner as usual, but Wei Lai's mother drove him away uncharacteristically. The next morning, at the back gate of Beilin Park where they met every day to go to school, Wei Lai met Wei Lai, who had a purple face and spoke strangely. After school, her mother Yao Qinglian told He Xin the bad news. Not long after He Xin left his friend's house last night, Liu Zhi suffered from depression and committed suicide by poisoning his food, killing his son Wei Lai. On his birthday, while He Xin was listening to the birthday gift his friend gave him, he discovered that the tape contained Liu Zhi's confession before his death... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.