A poor boy who crawled out of a mine spent twenty years climbing to the top of power and wealth, and spent twenty years turning himself into a lonely grave; a dull young man who graduated from the criminal police academy spent twenty years pursuing the same case, turning himself from a passionate young man into a taciturn middle-aged man. They had been friends, and eventually one stood in the courtroom during his trial and the other sat in the gallery watching him.
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