"Undifferentiated Lovers" - Obsession, Redemption and the Most Mysterious Circle

Science fiction as a carrier

The story of "Indiscriminate Lovers" travels between the past and the future (non-linear narrative), the narrative involves about 30 characters, focusing on 12 characters, so free and widely attributed to the setting of science fiction: time travel. In the novel, the time traveler (this is my name haha) must abide by the following six rules (Chapter 5),

• The first one must never directly interfere with historical events.
• Second, you can only go back once at each time point.
• Article 3, each target character can only be contacted once.
• Article 4: For the same historical event, only one related person can be contacted at a time.
• Article 5: You can't directly disclose unsolicited things to the target person.
• Sixth, no one should know about time travel.

Comparing Isaac Asimov's " Three Laws of Robotics " and its interrelationship with its stories, repeatedly discussing rules and disordered hard science fiction ethical issues, the six rules of "Indiscriminate Lovers" are more like science fiction as a carrier, carrying the author 's questions about indiscriminate killing. Imagination and hope for the future.

obsession

The story tells about three indiscriminate homicides. In the author's pen, both the perpetrator and the victim have their own obsessions. Pan Jining aspires to be a mother, ignores her husband's pressure to seek medical treatment, and finally has twins, only to find that "this is not the life I want." (Chapter 4), her cry in the dream became the overwhelm of her husband. At the last straw, her husband roared "Is this the life I want?" (Chapter 4), igniting the first indiscriminate homicide.

Gu Yuxin, a family member of the victim of the second indiscriminate murder case, "planned his life well before the incident, and practiced it step by step. Everything is his choice, and he does not need others to arrange his life for him." ( Chapter 2) He planned a happy family, with a wise wife and a well-behaved daughter, preparing for the CPA exam, and planning to become a partner in an accounting firm. So when he found out that his wife might be having an affair, his first reaction was to refuse, "He just wants to maintain the status quo, is it really not good?" (Chapter 3), after struggling to investigate further, he found that the affair was real, and found that others It is impossible to plan, the wife said to him,

Because I have only loved you, I am curious about what other people's love is like. You have a dull personality, and I yearn for unruly. You like a rigid life, and I look forward to colorful excitement. You treat me tenderly, and I imagine violent love.

Chang Huiyan, the mother of Ye Weisheng, the murderer of the third indiscriminate murder case, was born in an unsatisfactory family and longed for a family life after marriage.

She married a year after graduating high school to a doctor twelve years her senior. She became pregnant shortly after her marriage. After the birth of her son, her husband wanted her to focus on her husband and son, so she obediently quit her job as a salesman and became a full-time housewife. Friends say that she is lucky as if she won the lottery and can be a happy young woman... (Chapter 1)

She did not expect her husband to be violent at home, she excused her son for not leaving, a lucky husband to stop domestic violence, but did not expect his son to follow suit and beat and kick her, hoping to maintain the family, she did not actively stop the violence, until the son's plan to practice no-nonsense. Differential killing.

redemption

With the intervention of Wu Yiyi, a time traveler, Chang Huiyan discovered his son's indiscriminate murder plan and made up his mind to kill to stop it.

When Ye Weisheng emphasized, "Anyone can do it, I just want to kill", will he actually cry out, "Anyone can do it, who will love and love me?" (End)

"I love you." He heard his mother's voice again. ...I was secretly glad that he couldn't kill anyone in the end, did he really want to kill those people? The answer turned out to be no. He just wanted to kill people, vent his inner depression, and break through the dilemma in reality, but he didn't really want to take anyone's life. (chapter Five)

The most heartbreaking passage in the book is redemption for the mother and son.

Another redemption happens to the victim. Ling Benwei's daughter died in the first indiscriminate murder case. Since then, he has been walking dead. "It seems that no matter how hard he tries, grief always finds a way to return to its original point." (Chapter 2) Until Wu Yiyi, a time traveler, talked to him Breaking through the system of undifferentiated lovers who are bound by blood and various ethical constraints, he and his wife "have never been lonely again" (Chapter 3).

the most mysterious circle

In the face of an uninvited ending, how strong can it be to reverse the direction of the ending? Will it still be affected by the correction force of history after it is reversed? (Chapter two)

The undifferentiated lover system trapped Wu Yiyi's childhood. He "tried to prevent the birth of the undifferentiated lover system" (at the end), but he didn't know that the undifferentiated lover system was indirectly caused by his playful experiments, and the inevitability of history was the most mysterious. circle.

The same concept of fate can also be seen in the third case of indiscriminate murder that did not happen.

Of the five people who avoided killing, three died within a year of traffic accidents, heart attacks and drowning. The other two lived a long, long life, and they did nothing in their lives that had a huge impact.

Above, the report is complete. (chapter Five)

The irony of fate also occurred in the pair of Gu Yuxin and Yuan Shishi. On the day her daughter was victimized, they originally decided to divorce. Yuan Shishi could not bear her betrayal. After her daughter was victimized, in order to be closer to her, she said, "Why don't we give birth to Peixin" (Chapter 4).

Ironically, if Peixin hadn't died tragically, Gu Yuxin and Yuan Shishi would have ended up in divorce 100%.

Destiny's mockery of mankind is evident.

The fascinating thing about this novel is that you can see the author's outlook on life in the writing. She believes in the inevitability of history, she believes in destiny, and at the same time she also believes in the influence of people on the future: her views on "a world with only love" look forward to.