Crises of trust are everywhere, where do you go from here?
At the beginning of the new year, the young writer Zhang Ye's long story "Dangerous Letter" was published by Wanjuan Publishing Company. The book is jointly recommended by the famous writer Yu Geng, film and television director and screenwriter Yang Zhe, and theater director Wang Chong.
"Dangerous Letter" takes the heroine Xu Zhen's encounter as the main line, and takes the crisis of interpersonal trust that is prevalent in the current society as the background, and excavates the mental journey behind her paying the price for growth.
* The beginning of the story begins with a tense and suspenseful plot. After graduating from the Department of Literature of the School of Drama, Xu Zhen, a girl who worked in a theater research department, suddenly swallowed a large amount of drugs and was taken to the hospital for rescue. Although Xu Yu's relatives and friends around her could not fully empathize with her impulsiveness, they also expressed a certain understanding, after all, she had just been betrayed by her lover and submitted her resignation. However, in the process of rescue, the secrets in the depths of memory emerge through the opportunity of life and death, vaguely reflecting the long-standing knot in Xu's heart. It was those secret flashback clips that made her wake up in the hospital and face reality again.
After waking up, Xu began to miss her childhood playmate Xiao Liang, who remembered the joy of observing ants together, and Xiao Liang's unusual talent for cracking computer programs. Xiao Liang was like a dusty piece of gold to Xu Yu at this time, and she wanted him to shine again. In fact, a few years ago, she tried to use Xiao Liang as the character prototype to create a script, but she gave up halfway. Now her desire to express herself revolves around Xiao Liang again, but the double weakness of spirit and body makes her unable to write brilliantly. When she lost her sense of direction and frustration and couldn't see her own light, she met a netizen named "No. Zero" on a mobile dating app. The "No. Zero" on the Internet is eager to incarnate as Wu Jian in reality, **Xu Yu stepped into the net of desire, and mixed false love with money, making her already confused life even more muddy.
Although she is surrounded by relatives and friends, the emotional alienation and embarrassment caused by the generation gap between her parents, the snobbery of her former classmates, and the problems of understanding and trust thrown at her by various people are not helpful to solve her current predicament. In contrast, it was Shuangwen, a mysterious girl who had just met her, who gave her tenderness and care. Finally, the turning point seemed to come, and Xu Yi was persuaded by Liu Yi, a policeman who had a relationship, to call the police, trying to recover the economic losses caused to her by Wu Jian. The process of writing confessions and making transcripts was like a spiritual whipping, and the confrontation with Wu Jian triggered deeper malice on the other side. The cruelty of the truth was suddenly revealed, and Xu was caught off guard, and she tried her best to fight back, but fell into deeper pain.
Shuangwen and her boyfriend, programmer Ono, have successively brought Xu Yu's help, which makes the situation even more complicated. Ono began to ask for help online. A netizen named "Hunting Knife" responded to Ono and helped Xu Yi, and at the same time awakened Xu's truest memory, so that she could honestly review the unhappy parting with Xiao Liang back then. Xu Zhen finally confirmed that the "hunting knife" was Xiao Liang, who wanted to be a white-hat hacker since he was a child. The intertwining of the resentful past and the shameful present is condensed and summarized in the letter left by Xiao Liang, who reminds her word by word of those violent and painful experiences, how she can exert their value and how to gain relief from them.
The story told in "Dangerous Letter" shows the survival situation of the younger generation in modern urban life in the face of estrangement, indifference, calculation and fraud traps in online social networking. Whether it is family affection, friendship, love in real life or intimate relationships extending from the Internet to offline, there will be inadvertently buried the test of human nature and the reversal of good and evil. As a graduate student of the Department of Literature with a certain degree of thinking and cognitive ability, Xu Zhen has repeatedly put himself in a dangerous situation in the whirlpool of fate, which is embarrassing. **'s characters are vividly shaped, the relationship between the characters is complex, and the plot is full of twists and turns. In the relationships between various characters, the contradictions, helplessness and brightness in the truth of human nature are constantly reflected. At the end, the positive relationship between cultural transmission and personal suffering is pointed out, so that the whole story starts from the beginning of individual events, and finally moves towards the sublimation of social universal significance.
Zhang Ye, the author of "Dangerous Letter", graduated from the Department of Dramatic Literature of ** School of Drama and the Department of Art History of York University in the United Kingdom. The article was published in "People's **", "Drama Literature", "Folk Literature", etc., and published a long ** "The Tenth Son" and "The Glass Pillar on the Fourth Floor". Her works are known for their psychological descriptions of characters and are suspenseful, incorporating delicate and sensitive exchanges between people while writing about real life, so as to uncover the complex and contradictory aspects of human nature in contemporary society.
The famous writer Yu Geng commented on the book: "The shape of the world lies in the angle from which you look at it. Looking at the world from the perspective of "Dangerous Letter", seeing through the shadows in intimate relationships, it is even more ** a certain sinister motive in the cloak of love. The protagonist's response to the threat does not follow the rules, but shifts the focus of the search from the sins of the opponent to his own salvation in constant questioning. How do we come out of the shadows? How to survive in love? Each chapter of "Dangerous Letters" is looking for answers. Screenwriter and director Yang Zhe believes: "The ** written by Zhang Ye in recent years has its own characteristics. "Dangerous Letter" is not only a female emotion**, the suspense setting and layout in it are worth paying attention to, as well as the complex plot and portrayal of human nature are very interesting and worth watching".
Editor: Shu Chang.