"The Yale Master in the Bulletin Board Stood in Front of My Father's Grave for Ten Minutes" (3)

The author says | Shen Yuan's wall, and our wall The original inspiration for this story came from a recruitment announcement. A young foreigner, a high-paying job, a small town in the northwest. There are a lot of discussions online. Some people focus on process compliance, some focus on financial transparency, and some focus on ideological security. I noticed a phenomenon: everyone's doubts are rational, but when these doubts are intercepted, paraphrased, and re-spliced, they become "something else." I'm curious how this process happens. Hence this book. About Shouzhuo Tao Yuanming wrote "Return to the garden with clumsiness", which means to stick to one's clumsy duties and not speculate or take tricks. Shen Shou guarded the wall all his life. What he was guarding was the mural on Thousand Buddha Cliff, which was also the bottom line of procedural justice. He believed that as long as every brick was laid properly, the wall would not fall down. But later he discovered that instead of cutting holes in the wall, they used another method - they made the people looking at the wall feel that the wall was redundant. Shen Yuan went one step further than his father. He guards the walls and removes molds. About Shen Yuan For the character Shen Yuan, I wanted to write a smart person who is "not so smart". He doesn't rely on intuition to solve crimes, he doesn't rely on accidental discovery of clues, and he doesn't rely on the villain himself to reveal his flaws. He relied on the stupidest methods - checking files, comparing timelines, flipping through negatives, running to the scene, and checking the page numbers of every document. He is not a genius, he is the kind of person who "if you ask him to keep an eye on something, he will keep looking at it until he gets results." Such a person may not be likable in reality, but in a system where processes can be exploited, he is the one who is most needed. About Gu Yan Gu Yan is the character I took the slowest to write. Her dilemma is real - you discover that the man who raised you is the man who killed your co-worker's father. You find that the shadow of that person is hidden in your number. You find that the person you want to protect is pushed into more danger because of your "protection." She finally chose to join the special team, not because she had forgiven herself, but because she wanted to cancel the serial number herself. Some people spend a lifetime healing their childhood, but Gu Yan spent the rest of his life writing off his childhood. About K series K-01 to K-09 are not agents or spies, they are a set of "methods". The scary thing about this method is that it does not rely on guns and code books, but on process gaps. It doesn't steal things, it steals "definition rights" - making a civilization doubt its own continuity is much more effective than attacking it from the outside. When I wrote the K series, what I was thinking about was: the real line of defense is not at the border, but in every approval form, every resume, and every "I thought there was no problem" moment. About "Wall" The image of "wall" appears repeatedly in the book. The walls of Thousand Buddha Cliff are solid, made of bricks and stones, and painted with paint. Shen Shou was guarding this wall. What Shen Yuan is guarding is the other side - the invisible wall of systems, procedures, and compliance. The wall is not to block everyone, but to let those who walk inside know where the boundaries are. Finally This book is about investigating crimes, but its underlying theme is "inheritance." The son continued walking on the road that the father had not yet checked out. What the comrades did not finish, those who survived continued to do it. Shen Yuan finally said: "This time someone is with me." Gu Yan said: "I am not alone." That's what I want to write about – it's hard to guard a wall, but it's not that hard if you know there's someone on the other side of the wall who's guarding the same thing as you. Thank you for reading this book to the last page. If we are destined, we will meet on Ludao. August 2026 Yu Tongzi