Who Killed Taishi Junjie?

Synopsis:

A cityscape that tears apart the boundary between reality and fantasy, this novel depicts the brutal contrast between two mirrored souls. On one side is Tai Shi Junjie, struggling at the bottom of society, with epilepsy, poverty, and discrimination as constant companions. Caught in a relentless chain of workplace infighting, romance scams, and online abuse, he goes from scraping by in humiliating circumstances to madness and self-destruction. On the other side is Tai Shi Junhao, shining on the international stage. He has the same face, yet enjoys an enlightened adoptive father, an elite education, and a transnational career, rising through the social ranks with love and opportunity on his side. When an unexpected encounter between the two sends shockwaves across the internet, a group of polished “winners” are forced to face the ghosts of their past. With a cool, unsparing touch, this work lays bare intergenerational trauma, regional prejudice, and the systemic pressures that crush people trying to survive, asking what silent structures of complicity lie behind individual tragedies. When the desperate howl of the powerless collides with the polished self-interest of the privileged, who is the dragon-slayer, and who has become the dragon? Questions of dignity, justice, and redemption echo on and on in the shadows of a bustling city.