Inferior Goods

L appeared in the public eye because of an interview about murder.

It was posted on an overseas website. The reporter was a foreigner, and the entire interview was conducted in clumsy Chinese.

Reporter: What should I call you?

L: Call me "L."

Reporter: All right, L. When you contacted us, you claimed to have killed someone with your own hands. Is that true?

L: It is.

Reporter: What was your relationship to the victim?

L: In the eyes of those around us, we weren't close. If I had to put it a certain way, we were rivals in love?

Reporter: May I ask how you did it?

L: There's an old saying in my country that applies to this: "Win without drawing blood."

Reporter: Win without drawing blood? Sorry, my Chinese isn't very good. I'm not sure what you mean.

L: (Smiles and shakes their head) That's all right.

Reporter: After committing murder, killers usually try to cover up what happened. Why did you choose to give us an interview so openly? I mean, this seems rather unusual.

L: That's true. But it's worth taking a few risks to bring my work to a close.

Reporter: Aren't you afraid of being arrested?

L: I'm looking forward to it.

As soon as this anonymous interview was published, it was quickly reposted domestically, causing an uproar online and shooting straight to the top of the trending topics.

The comments were roughly split into two camps.

Two-thirds thought they were just using a sensational story to attract attention. The rest disagreed.

A: People will do anything for traffic these days. But I have to admit, that last line was really brazen.

B: What does "work" mean? The person they killed?

C: What if it's true? They'd have to go to prison, right? Anyway, I'm freaked out.

D: To the person above, even if it's fake, they'll probably still go to prison. The interview already has over a million likes, reposts, and comments, and it was posted five minutes ago.

The tide gradually turned. True or not, everyone supported locking them up.

But that raised the question:

Who is L?

Theme: Pay attention to mental health.