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[When we peer further into the darkness, what do we see? At first, we thought we were watching "them", but as we got closer, what we saw here was "us". Why did Wu Xieyu, who was admitted to Peking University because of his mother, finally decide to kill his mother? This book is based on nearly 100,000 words of follow-up reports from "Sanlian Life Weekly" and first-hand information from hundreds of people involved in the case, and in-depth restores the entire process of Wu Xieyu's crime of matricide. The author not only accurately presents Wu Xieyu's family structure and emotional state at the time of the crime, but also shows readers the past of several generations of the Wu and Xie families through several years of visits. This book does not attempt to make judgments about human nature easily, but attempts to trace the seeds quietly planted by tragedy in the intergenerational transmission, and thus gently touches on the common dilemmas we currently face in our families and society. Wu Xieyu's body is an overlapping of a series of era labels such as "small town problem maker", "chicken baby", "widowed parenting", "hollow man", "native family trauma", "meritism trap", etc. This is not only an incredible story of a Peking University genius who fell into the abyss, but at the same time, every reader can see a certain subtlety in himself. As a reporter who has followed the Wu Xieyu case for seven years said: At first, I thought it was us watching "them", but as we got closer, what we saw here was "us".