In truth, most people who commit crimes are just ordinary people. Many of them grew up in ordinary families, just like you and me. The stories in this novel are based on real cases I once came across out of curiosity. I simply wanted to look at them from a different angle, try to understand what was going on in their minds, and write about them in a different way. Of course, although the stories draw on real cases, I have added some of my own interpretation and imagination to the crimes themselves and the perpetrators' thoughts beforehand.