This is a sad story, in the process of reading, let a person sad, tangled, and emerged warm. Although it is Higashino Keigo’s book, but it is neither a murder, nor a story of reasoning, but a bizarre story. People in the face of impermanent fate, struggle, hate, and can only reluctantly accept. For the people you love, you must have a choice, choose the way to make the people you love happy. Although in real life, we can not have the protagonist such a bizarre experience, but the author wants to express the idea is worth our deep thought.
In 1985, on the morning after a night shift with “no special foreboding,” Sugita was lonely preparing his breakfast. His wife Naoko wants to attend his cousin’s memorial service and return to their hometown in Nagano. Their daughter Naomi Nani wants to go skiing, so they go together. Realizing that Heisuke knows nothing about cooking, Naoko makes some food for him and puts it in the refrigerator, leaving a lot of notes.
This is a loving family, and Heisuke loves his wife very much. Although she is beginning to gain weight, and the fine lines around her eyes are becoming more and more obvious, she is also a bit of a nag, and she is also very bossy and quite independent, but she has a straightforward and informal personality, which makes her feel comfortable and happy to be with. She was a wise wife and a loving mother. Heisuke some serious and long-winded, but he really care for his wife and daughter, three people formed a warm family naturally emerge in front of our eyes. Just then, the news of the thunderbolt came from the TV, which caught people off guard.
His wife took his daughter back home to run for the funeral, only to encounter a traffic accident on the road, the ski bus fell down the mountain, many casualties, seriously injured in the hospital list, have the name of his wife and daughter. The wife, trying to protect her daughter, lay on top of her, and there were many pieces of glass inserted into her body. She was covered in blood but the daughter was unharmed. In the face of disaster, parents love is selfless, for the sake of children can sacrifice everything, including their own lives.
Due to excessive blood loss, the wife died, only the daughter miraculously recovered from critical condition. However, the fate god played a big joke on them. The body of the daughter remains, but the soul of the wife lives in it. How should Heisuke handle himself and get along with the daughter who lives in the soul of the wife? Father and not father, husband and not husband. While it might seem to outsiders like a normal single-parent family with a father and young daughter, inside the Sugita family, things have changed drastically.
They became a family with a secret, a secret that only the two of them knew. Heisuke’s heart is torn, but he has no way to talk about it. The god of fate is sometimes so absurd that it tests the choices people make in extreme situations. Human nature is very complicated, how to choose between desire and morality? In real life, such outrageous things are impossible. What does the author want to express?
Naoko lives in her daughter’s body. She’s no longer Naoko Sugita, she’s Nanami Sugita. Naoko becomes Nanami Algae, then she must face this question, after her life in the end how to go? Naoko’s spirit has lived in her daughter’s body for some time, and although she misses her old family of three, she knows she can’t go back.
Since God had given her a second chance to be human, she wanted to cherish it, this chance to learn seriously, seriously live, according to their own way of life. She once put her dream on her daughter, hoping Naomi algae to become an independent woman, not only in mood, but also in the economy can become a strong woman who does not rely on men, an outstanding woman. Now she wants to do it herself.
The dead are gone, and the most important thing is to think about the living. Whether you like it or not, when life changes, one has to stop dwelling on the past and learn to move on as an opportunity to start over. (This is Naoko’s attitude when dealing with the change.) But Heisuke still can’t accept it and move on as if nothing had happened. Their lives are full of new conflicts and conflicts, and what will they choose in the end?
When Heisuke was dealing with the compensation, he found that the accident happened not because of uncontrollable factors, but because the driver worked overtime and the fatigue driving led to the tragedy. Hirsuke met the driver’s wife in the compensation rights meeting, a miserable woman, she felt very sorry for her husband’s fault, she knew that the victim’s family would not accept her apology, but she still insisted on apologizing, no matter how vicious words others said to her, she suffered silently.
Heisuke, one of the family members, is furious with the driver of the train (Yuhiro Kajikawa), but he commiserates with the driver’s wife, who looks weak and sad, having just lost her husband. Later, Hirsuke insists on investigating the cause of Yukihiro’s tired driving.
Flat suke found lucky wide so desperate to make money, but his wife and daughter’s life is not good ah, he scrimped and saved, home is also very simple. With the further investigation. Yukihiro is so desperate that he really needs money, but his money is not left at home, but sent to another woman. His wife had no idea. Turns out they were a half-way couple. Most of Yuki’s money was sent to his divorced ex-wife. Among Yukihiro’s belongings was a pocket watch that was very precious to him and that he wore all the time, with a picture of a little boy on it. Hirsuke thought Yuki Hiroshi was trying so hard for his own son. But the result was unexpected.
The little boy in the photo is indeed the child of Yukihiro’s ex-wife, and he loves the child very much. He also sent the money for the child’s college entrance exam. Yukihiro’s ex-wife got involved with her ex-boyfriend before they got married, had sex before marriage, became pregnant with Fumya Negishi, and subsequently married Yukihiro.
Lucky Guang knows nothing about this. Lucky Guang loves this child very much. But after a few years, things are exposed, because the child is sick, blood type to know that the child is not their own. Yukihiro is very sad about this, but he loves his wife and son, but he can’t pretend that nothing happened. So he left, and he didn’t tell the truth to protect his ex-wife’s standing with his children. Later, knowing that his ex-wife was in financial difficulties and their children were going to college, he chose to work hard and help them silently.
No one’s life is easy. In the face of the impermanence and injustice of fate, some people choose to endure and pay in silence. Even though they can’t get anything in return, they still choose to do it and choose the way to make their loved ones happy. Yuki’s story gives Hirsuke a new insight.
Naoko has accepted the fact that she lives in her daughter’s body, and her body has grown from a little girl to a high school girl. Although her heart is full of struggles, she does not want to live up to her second life. She chooses to face the changes of life bravely and actively embrace the new life. However, Heisuke is more and more afraid, he is afraid of losing Naoko, he is jealous Naoko can be young again, more jealous and Naoko get along with the boys, even made some invasion of Naoko privacy things.
He still lives in his old life, he intrudes on Naoko’s heart, but Naoko is not happy and he is not happy. Hiroshi’s behavior made him realize that loving someone is not about possessing her, but choosing the way to make the one he loves happy. So Hirsuke begins to choose to let go, respect Naoko’s choice, although his heart is very painful, but he still chooses to bless Naoko to start a new life.
