This story is purely fictitious and any similarity is purely coincidental!
During digital scanning at the Nanjiang Municipal Archives, a dusty file numbered "X-0721" was accidentally dropped. What is recorded in it is a case of an unknown female corpse fifteen years ago - the identity of the deceased is unknown, the murderer is at large, and the case is permanently sealed.
Lin Shen, the deputy captain of the criminal investigation team, accidentally looked through the files and found that a key page had been torn out of one of the exhibit lists. What's even weirder is that the borrowing records in the archives show that seven people have accessed this file in the past five years, and three of them have died mysteriously.
As the investigation deepened, Lin Shen and archivist Gu Beiyao discovered that this old case was secretly related to a serial disappearance case in Nanjiang City that shocked the whole country. And hidden in that incomplete file was not only the identity of the murderer, but also a shocking secret that could subvert the entire judicial system.
Every seemingly unrelated death is a piece of the puzzle of the truth. What they have to do is to piece together a complete picture of human nature from the fog of the dossier before the murderer strikes again.
Reader comments
This is a work that deserves to be taken seriously. It is not the kind of fast-food suspense that you forget after reading it, but a heavy stone - it will stay in your heart after reading it, it will make people suddenly think of the faces of those girls at an inadvertent moment, and it will give people a new understanding of the words "archives", "missing" and "marginal people".
"The Blind Spots of Human Nature Hidden Deep in the Files" is a heavy work. It is not the kind of novel that can be consumed quickly. It requires readers to slow down, sink in, and follow the protagonist to light up the lights one by one in the darkness. It wraps a fable about silence, complicity and forgetfulness in a suspenseful shell.
What moved me the most was the three pieces of paper with Zhao Jianguo's name written all over them. One hundred and forty-seven names, neatly written on A4 paper with a blue ballpoint pen, were read out in court and sealed into files. The most important thing this work does is to allow those names that have been numbered, erased, and forgotten to be read again and recited silently in their hearts.
It's not a perfect work, but its sincerity, its weight, its gaze on humanity make it one worth remembering. File No. X-2021-001 is lying quietly in the iron cabinet of the archives. Its page count will not increase, its name will not change. But everyone who reads this book will leave a place for it in their hearts.
Deep in the files, there are blind spots in human nature. Deep in the darkness lies the light they have been waiting for.
This is a work that deserves to be taken seriously. It is not the kind of fast-food suspense that you forget after reading it, but a heavy stone - it will stay in your heart after reading it, it will make people suddenly think of the faces of those girls at an inadvertent moment, and it will give people a new understanding of the words "archives", "missing" and "marginal people". "The Blind Spots of Human Nature Hidden Deep in the Files" is a heavy work. It is not the kind of novel that can be consumed quickly. It requires readers to slow down, sink in, and follow the protagonist to light up the lights one by one in the darkness. It wraps a fable about silence, complicity and forgetfulness in a suspenseful shell. What moved me the most was the three pieces of paper with Zhao Jianguo's name written all over them. One hundred and forty-seven names, neatly written on A4 paper with a blue ballpoint pen, were read out in court and sealed into files. The most important thing this work does is to allow those names that have been numbered, erased, and forgotten to be read again and recited silently in their hearts. It's not a perfect work, but its sincerity, its weight, its gaze on humanity make it one worth remembering. File No. X-2021-001 is lying quietly in the iron cabinet of the archives. Its page count will not increase, its name will not change. But everyone who reads this book will leave a place for it in their hearts. Deep in the files, there are blind spots in human nature. Deep in the darkness lies the light they have been waiting for.