Personally, I think the full text of Masked Hotel is a bit too long. The Night Before the Mask tells several short suspense stories, all of which are the experiences of men and women.
After reading the mask series, I have a better understanding of human nature. Reality is just like people who live in hotels. Everyone wears a mask from the moment they step into the hotel. No matter how ugly, perfect and noble the mask is, it is self-concealment and deception. Everyone has a different mask, just as everyone has a different side. No one is complete and simple.
The first story in The Night Before the Mask tells that the retired baseball player "General" needs the help of his agent to clean up the mess after having an affair with his lover. Retired players and agents are worried about protecting the extramarital affairs between the "general" and his lover and maintaining their image. However, the lover committed suicide several times in front of them, which proved that he was mentally ill and gave him a chance to get along with his lover and marry him, instead of the "general" or "general" extramarital affairs with peace of mind. And the agent in order not to expose the general's emotional experience. Tell the hostess at the front desk that this matter is her own. Actually, it's cheating, cheating for your own benefit. You wear a mask to protect something that is in your own interest.
The second story is about the death of a boss who owned several restaurant branches and rich family resources. At the beginning of the story, it only shows that the murderer is infatuated with the boss's beautiful wife, infatuated with her in the baking class, wants her, and is paranoid enough to have her motive for killing. But it's not that simple. At first, in front of Interpol Man Xintian, the wife showed the image of a good wife and mother who was very sad and sad about her husband's death. But when Xintian found out that the murderer had confessed to her, she didn't refuse, but treated him as gently as before. It was her words and deeds that made the murderer establish the motive for killing. His paranoid personality and self-satisfaction thought that she wanted to be with him, so she killed her husband to free her and let them be together. Moreover, she also said in front of the perpetrators that she often suffered from domestic violence, and the rich did not value the family so much in the company. She has been wearing a mask for her attacker. One kind, domestic violence, wants to elope with the murderer.
But the fact is that she had an affair and her husband found out. She doesn't want a divorce, and only by staying married can she continue to live a luxurious life. So at this time, the appearance of the murderer showed her an opportunity, a way to be with her lover without losing money. So she put on a mask and induced the murderer to kill her husband. But there is no evidence that she instigated the murderer to kill. Just exposed the mask she was wearing. Exposed a selfish and ugly soul.
People usually hide their true selves like masks.
The third story is not complicated. It is about a 17-year-old high school girl who wrote a novel that was well received and sought after by the society. Her works are very popular with people. However, her father wanted to protect her, not expose her, let her finish her studies, and let her decide her future when she was 18 years old. But his father didn't want to lose such book copyright income, and the publishing house also gave her the Best Newcomer Award. Fans want to know what the author really looks like. So his father lied to the people in the publishing house that these were all his works. Everyone in the publishing house knows that when the author's image is different from the public's imagination, bestsellers will definitely fall. So the publishing house published The Masked Author and published some of her voices. The voice is the voice of the real author, a girl of 17 years old. And use the five senses of the online model to synthesize a new face photo, and delete it after a few seconds. But it is reserved for a willing heart. Only in this way can we tell the story of idolization and a fan. The title of this story is "Cover People's Eyes and ears", which means deception and fiction.
The last story is the main line. Both men and women were directly or indirectly involved in this event.
The university professor died and was not discovered until two days after his death. The police couldn't find any evidence. We can only suspect the most motivated person, Nanyuan. Because of the death of the professor, it is he who can get the greatest benefit as an associate professor.
Because he and the professor have developed two different semiconductor materials for market applications, once they are mass-produced, they will get huge profits from patents. A professor is the kind of person who specializes in learning. At first, he also recognized that the associate professor had a patent direction, but gradually felt that this road could not go on, so he changed his research direction. The associate professor didn't want to, because this research was the result of his time when he was an assistant, under very busy and difficult circumstances. It is it that makes Nanyuan sit on the position of associate professor. So he immediately applied for a patent, hoping to mass-produce it.
This is the background of the murder.
Nanyuan hated the professor at first, but did not establish the motive for killing. After his first trip to Osaka, he had a one-night stand with Reiko Kobayakawa Yukio Hatoyama, a female entrepreneur. I trusted her so much that I said his innermost words. So, Reiko Kobayakawa Hatoyama spoke of the plan of "exchange killing", and they formed an alliance.
There are also people who want to kill people in Lushan Mountain, Reiko Kobayakawa. Originally, as an only child, after her very rich father died, all the inheritance was hers. Therefore, under this premise, she dared to start a business boldly and achieved the present success. But it turned out that my father sent a letter to a girl more than 20 years ago, saying that she was his illegitimate daughter, and when he died, he would inherit all the inheritance. Of course, the illegitimate daughter went to see him, and Lushan Mountain in Reiko Kobayakawa also knew about this person's existence. So she killed her heart. Don't want to inherit an inheritance. But she can't just murder. Because once the illegitimate daughter dies, the biggest beneficiary is her, and the police will also establish her as the first suspect.
That's why there is a plan to exchange murders. Two completely unrelated people. Nan used to help Lushan kill his illegitimate daughter, and then Lushan helped him kill the professor. And then make alibis on the day of their respective murders. The police can't doubt them
So on the day Nanyuan was killed, Lushan went on a trip with her adopted husband. She was out of the country those days. This alibi is enough.
The day when Dangshan and Nanyuan decided to kill the professor was 65438+1October 4th. So Nanyuan went to the academic exchange meeting in Tokyo that day and met many people. Many people can prove this without being at the crime scene.
But Hatoyama believes that a perfect alibi can easily make the police suspect that it is a union murder. So on the eve of 10/0/0/4, she asked her husband to kill the professor on the evening of the 3rd, and then moved the body to delay the discovery, so Nanyuan wouldn't think that she had broken her word. Therefore, Nanyuan was used by female entrepreneurs from beginning to end because of one-night stand.
The above is an overview of the incident, and the story has always been carried out in the order of police investigation. The police caught the place where the professor died on the night of 654381October 3. However, Nanyuan only had a sufficient alibi on June 4th of 10, but not on the evening of the 3rd. So I was called by the police for questioning several times. Finally, because of the frequent questioning by the police and the strange eyes of the people around them, I couldn't bear to be persuaded to go home and rest. I went to the hotel in Osaka on the evening of the 3rd. That was where the hostess lived at that time. But when the police went there to collect evidence, there was no clue. At this time, the hostess saw that only one female auxiliary police came and tried to collect evidence. I can't bear to tell her my own imagination and correct imagination.
Nanyuan and Lushan met on a one-night stand in July, because they booked different rooms but left almost at the same time. Moreover, Nanyuan accidentally brought the hotel towel, and when it was returned to the front desk, the towel smelled of rose perfume. Moreover, this outstanding fragrance was only smelled on Lushan Mountain when I checked in the day before. So the hostess suspected that they lived together. And that night, Nanyuan ordered expensive champagne in his room. It is not normal for him to order this expensive service in his ordinary suite. So the hostess became suspicious. And ask the female auxiliary police to check in this direction. But you must not reveal what she said, and you must not reveal her existence.
So the police obtained evidence and found out the two stays before and after. I checked in twice at 5438+00 in July and June, and signed Lushan Mountain. The first time is the real name, and the second time is the pseudonym. Found that this is really the case. On the evening of October 3rd, 65438/kloc-0, Nanyuan met with Hatoyama in the hotel in Osaka. So the female role of Lushan Mountain was excavated. The police followed her investigation. But there is no result. Of course, she is ready to deal with everything.
But suddenly the man Xintian thought of a murder case in another district, and the murderer could not find it. Is that the illegitimate daughter was killed and the murderer absconded. Doubt the possibility of alliance exchange killing. The next step is to compare the DNA, and the DNA left by the murderer of the illegitimate daughter is 99.9% consistent with Nanyuan. The evidence of Nanyuan's murder is conclusive. So Nanyuan confessed that at this time, Lushan, a female entrepreneur, was no longer concealed. Subsequently, the police found 99.9% DNA data matching Lushan's husband on the professor.
When the police went to his house to arrest people, her husband tried to commit suicide by jumping off the fourth floor, thus protecting Lushan Mountain. With his death, the police have no reason to doubt Lushan Mountain. He should be responsible for all the crimes.
This scene is familiar. At the end of Nocturnal Walking, Kirihara Ryouji also tries to protect the snow ear from suspicion. At the scene where she was finally caught, she pretended not to know Yi Xue and committed suicide by jumping from the height of the shopping center in front of her. The ending of "Night Walk" is also very shocking. Love enables him to protect her and choose death. Two people who have been walking in the dark have become the light for each other to go on.
"There is no sun in my sky. It is always night, but it is not dark, because something has replaced the sun."
Night walking is a tragic interpretation of great love.
Far away, go back to the night before the mask. The author will not arrange the same ending. Kirihara Ryouji's death in the white night trip ended everything. But last night, Lushan's husband tried to jump off the building, but he didn't die. He woke up and came back to life. And knowing that I couldn't stay, I confessed everything, and the female entrepreneur also confessed. Because even if she doesn't admit it, Nanyuan's confession alone can get her into trouble.
This exchange murder case is over.
Later, it was also described that the male host was going to visit the female host in the new day. He found that the female auxiliary police officer was asked about the smell of rose perfume. The female auxiliary police revealed the hostess, but she didn't have a name. The hostess was also transferred from Osaka. As a prequel to The Masked Hotel, the last part of this book also describes the background motive of the murder of The Masked Hotel.
Regarding human nature, the mask series may want to express one thing:
Everyone wears multiple masks just to hide their true selves.