Cat Hunter

It turns out that the third-person version made the same progress, so the author changed it to the first-person version and started reading [Eating Melon] from the beginning again. So this novel has recently become my "spiritual food." The author's detailed description of the crime scene is so vivid that when reading it, you will feel that there is a vague smell of blood and rust in the air. You can't help but think over and over again how professional the author is. 🤔Xunfeng, the protagonist in the article, is not omniscient and omnipotent with God's perspective. The article does not realize it. Wu is not great either. The so-called vixens in the supporting roles are not the kind of gods who "have their own problems". Even the righteous police officer Wang will wander and struggle in the gray area of human nature. This sense of reality makes the story more flesh-and-blood. The story of the little characters crying in pain is even more poignant [eating melon] especially after the revision. In these two volumes, the intricate motivations behind the serial cases within the case gradually surfaced, and the clues involved in the old cases made people think deeply, like a key opening the door to a darker place (insert a sentence here-it makes people want to grab the author by the collar and shake him: write quickly!!!). The theme of "Crime and Punishment" is quite deep. What I want to explore is not the right and wrong of not holding on to the light in the dark, but the complexity of human nature. I think this is a crime story about redemption, about choice, and more that makes people think. It is worth reading [Learned][Learned][Learned]

Finally caught up with the progress. The author is very good at laying out the plot and shaping the characters. The plot and characters blossomed, and the overall look and feel was very good. But the shortcomings are also obvious. As the author himself said, the work is too slow and requires patience to read. I obviously came here for fast food, but I actually had the illusion of eating the eight bowls of Shengjing. Volume 4, Conferred as a God!

Before I even finished reading the first volume, I realized that this was a wonderful book. The rhythm is relaxed and relaxed, the language style is unique, the plot is contagious, and the description is vivid and specific. At the beginning, everything in the future is unknown, but I always feel that the author is playing a big game! The protagonist is not a hero, he is just an ordinary person with flesh and blood who is forced by reality. The heroine is an over-the-top high school student who uses ordinaryness to hide herself from others. There is no time travel, no system, no superpowers, only true and cruel reality stories! Good review! Great praise! How many voices can a crime novel have? The answer given by "Cat Hunting" is: at least eight. Killer, Avenger, Chaser, Gray Operator, Player, Bystander, Adversary - and then, back to Killer. Eight volumes, eight first-person perspectives, like an eight-sided prism, refract the same beam of light into different spectrums. Xun Feng killed someone, Wang Hui planned the murder, Wang Huairen chased for three years but could not catch the murderer, Wu Jianjun handed the information to the murderer, Zhao Xiaomeng fell in love with a killer who pretended to be a dead person in his heart, Zhang Jingyi was drawn into the vortex of predatory world but always stood on the shore, Wuming - the killer who did not even leave his real name - used his own death to complete the most absurd violent spectacle in the entire series. Then, Volume Eight. When Xun Feng returned to Shenyang, Han Shuang was dead. He turned himself in and defended his death wish in court - "If you don't kill, the people will not be angry. If you don't kill, it won't be enough to uphold the country's laws. If you don't kill, it won't be justice." He finished everything the prosecutor should say, forcing the prosecutor to read the script. Someone in the hearing room laughed out loud. The presiding judge pinched his eyebrows and shouted, "Quiet." This is the most touching moment of "Cat Hunting": a man who wants to die is kept in this world by a group of people who don't want him dead - his lawyer, the police who have been chasing him for three years, the girl he saved. He was eventually sentenced to a suspended death sentence. It's not the victory of justice, it's not the tolerance of the law, it's the people who have been touched by him in different ways who say in their own way: You can't die yet. This is the core question of the first part of "Cat Hunting": Is there a "necessary gradient line" between black and white? The novel does not give an answer - it just allows the eight narrators to live in their own gray areas and bear the consequences of their own choices. Xun Feng bears the reprieve of death, Wang Huairen bears the silence, Wu Jianjun bears the secret guilt, and Zhao Xiaomeng bears the burden of falling in love with someone who will never respond to her. As readers, we are invited to enter the interior of each "I" and experience each gray texture. We cannot simply judge anyone - not because of the moral relativism of "everyone has difficulties", but because the novel, with amazing patience and detail, allows us to understand how everyone is shaped into what they are now by their past, their trauma, their love and hatred. The ambition of "Cat Hunt" is rare among contemporary Chinese crime novels. It is not a suspense novel about "who is the murderer" - the murderer tells you in the first volume. It is a polyphonic narrative about "why people come to this point." The eight voices confirm and dissolve each other; they complement and question each other. When Xun Feng said in court, "The death penalty is fine," the readers had already experienced the baptism of seven different perspectives and could no longer respond to him with simple moral judgments. This is a novel about ashes. Everyone is burning - some are burning for revenge, some are burning for justice, some are burning for love. After burning, what's left? Maybe it's the glimmer of light in the embers, maybe it's the beginning of the next story.

At this point, the plot is still very confusing. The tense first two volumes have opened a heavy prelude and set up another link of mystery. Immediately after the police officer's perspective was introduced, I thought I could start a brutal black and white showdown, but the author suddenly switched to the relatively relaxed "campus chapter". Just like in a peaceful world, there will always be painful groans in dark corners. The campus is also a lost paradise, but it is also a temporary haven for the protagonist Xunfeng. In this mission to hide your identity, temporarily forget about the deeper pain. The coincidence of God's will to erode, and whether there is redemption in tragedy, we look forward to uncovering it one day. I will slowly wait for your rewrite and update.

This is a very slow-burning light novel. It is not like other novels that start with a bang and attract attention, and then follow the routine. Once you read this novel, you will find that the author's character portrayal of each character is like a friend around you. Moreover, the author pays great attention to the sense of picture. When reading the novel, even without illustrations, one can imagine how the characters move and stand. The plot is real and exciting, and the characters are lively and lovely. It is a rare and good novel!

I give my novel a four-star rating. For a variety of sloppy reasons, the current quality of this novel has not yet reached my highest expectations. However, I will work hard to earn this star back in the future!