Silent

In the summer of 1999, Qinghe, a small town in the south. Five boys and girls formed a secret group "Fireflies", who enjoyed collecting secrets from adults in the town and anonymously exposing them. They locked in on the new Chinese teacher Zhou Chenglin - a person who is too clean, so clean that people want to get dirty. As the investigation deepened, they discovered that Zhou Chenglin had hidden 77 letters in his dormitory. The recipient was a girl named "A Ying", and the dates lasted from 1992 to 1999, and none of them was sent. And "A Ying" is the sister of Lin Xiaoying, the founder of the group, who drowned seven years ago. A further line extends to 1969 - that year, a group of teenagers played the same game and destroyed the young teacher Zhou Wang with an anonymous letter, causing him to die in a car accident. Zhou Chenglin is Zhou Wang's posthumous son. He came to Qinghe to teach as a cover, and his real purpose was to find out the truth about his father's old case. The five people thought they were upholding justice, but found that they were repeating the chain of thirty years ago. Anonymous letters, silent witnesses, suppressed cases - every aspect is repeated. In the end, they must face a closer truth: the anonymous letter written by Lin Xiaoying on July 12, 1992 when she was nine years old was the direct cause of her sister being chased to the river. The novel uses Lin Xiaoying's diary as the main line, interspersed with the hidden line in 1969 and the end in 2005, telling how the silence of generations has rolled into a bigger snowball, and what it looks like at the moment when someone finally speaks.