Year of Regret

These are two teenagers who spent their entire youth answering a question: When shoddy justice becomes a system, how can a person prove that his life in this world is not a mistake? Ling Yan, a top student who had to be stained with blood in the dark night. The weapon is a black iron knife, and the motive is to keep the family alive. Chen Yu, a positive player torn between rules and conscience. Belief is in procedural justice, until it is discovered that the first step of the procedure is to crush human nature. Their encounter begins with a hunt, but leads to a conspiracy against a system that eats up the weak. However, the ultimate punishment of the system is not to eliminate you, but to give you a new, bright, but completely false life, allowing you to bury the real and struggling self of the past with your own hands. This is a story about memory, tampering and identity murder. It asks: If a person's pain, love and struggle can be technically deleted, what basis for "I" is left? When justice is reduced to efficient "cleaning", tragedy becomes a silent number in statistics. I would like to dedicate this book to all the souls who cry in the silent place. If you have been shaken by the tragedy of Julien in "The Red and the Black", you may also be able to hear the heroic and desperate echo of the song "Je suis là" (Listen to the Heart) in another time and space in Ling Yan and Chen Yu. What it sings is never love, but all the collision marks of an individual in front of the bronze wall of the times - the roar of dignity, the confusion of existence, and the ultimate self-proof completed through destruction. They are another Julien who repeats this tragic song in our era.