The Devotion of Suspect X

"The Devotion of Suspect X" is a detective novel written by Japanese novelist Higashino Keigo. 

Ishigami, the main character in the novel is a math genius teaching in high school. Ishigami is a very rational person, who always follows his own logic as doing every thing, and never being influenced by any emotion. Nevertheless, one day, Ishigami unexpectedly has a crush on his new neighbor, Yasuko for the first sight, and Ishigami's deep love to Yasuko even makes him help Yasuko to conceal her crime of killing her ex-husband who keeps exerting domestic violence to her and her daughter. 

Genius as Ishigami, he absolutely knows that his behavior of helping Yasuko conceal the crime and destroy the body of her ex-husband's will lead himself to crime, but why such a rational person like he still be affected by his emotion and cannot help to do so?  In the novel, the story explains that it is because before knowing Yasuko, Ishigami thought that he himself was just like a robot that living a regular and boring life everyday, the only thing he had in his life was math and number. One day, Ishigami cannot bare his crazy life anymore and decide to commit suicide. On the moment that he wanted to hang himself, it is Yasuko that knocked his door for greeting, and saved his life.

"Sometimes, a person can rescue another person's life by only being alive." I think that this sentence is the main concept that the author wants to convey in this novel. Like Ishigami, he thought that it is Yasuko that saved his life, so all he did for her is not to help but to return, because Yasuko is his motivation to keep living in the world. Perhaps this kind of affection is not only between love, but also between closed friends and family. For the person we take to heart, the only thing we care about is he or her can live safety and happiness, and there's nothing else. 

In this novel, readers can not only be attracted by the complicated and suspense plots, but also be touching by the pure love that runs through the whole story. Besides, there're many things to rethink after reading "The Devotion of Suspect X".

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