"Retsuko, what are your plans for the future?"
——In 1991, Zhao Xiaojun asked.
"I don't want to live like them."
——In 1991, Shen Lie replied.
"Why don't you stop?"
——In 2017, the leader of the task force asked.
Shen Lie was silent for a long time.
He thought of his father's stamping machine, of the blood of Zhao Xiaojun's cook, of the knife that Liu Dajiang blocked for him, of Sun Bald Zi kneeling on the ground and saying, "I have no choice Liezi," and of Han Wanlihou's words on the phone, "You carry it."
Finally he spoke.
"I thought I didn't have a choice. In fact, I did have a choice. But every time, I chose the worst path."
Thirty years of a low-level outlaw.
A sad book about "choice".
"Thirty Chapters of the Ice City" is also known as (The world is not as good as people's hearts)
