-> Grudges and Dawn

Author: Xue Yong
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: Su Dong was stopped by two police officers at the entrance of the courtroom. Su Dong stretched his neck and shouted to Qin Lu, who was about to get on the bus, "Qin sister, I'll visit you in a few days—" Qin Lu paused for a moment, turned her head, and glanced at the direction from where the shout came. A faint, sorrowful smile appeared on her pale and thin face. The female police officer beside her seemed to say something to her, and she quickly turned around and got onto the bus. The prison van carrying Qin Lu blared its sirens as it roared out of the yard, gradually fading into the distance.
Liu Wumei, a laid-off female worker, committed suicide by jumping off a building due to her incurable illness and lack of money for treatment. This act stirred the conscience of Qin Lu, the mistress of Guan Ming, the plant director and general manager, who had been involved in transferring a large amount of state-owned assets to his private enterprise and appropriating them. When the investigation into this matter led by the laid-off workers' petition against Guan Ming yielded no results, Guan Ming took Qin Lu's nineteen-year-old daughter, Cheng Ying, as his "second wife" and kept her as a mistress. Enraged, Qin Lu broke into Guan Ming's bedroom with a knife. She was certain that the dull, heavy sound, like a sack of grain falling from the sky, would forever linger in her ears and be etched deeply in her heart.