Mo Du

Childhood, upbringing, family background, social connections, traumas...

We ceaselessly seek and explore the motives of criminals, pursue every faint trace of emotion among them, not to sympathize with them and even forgive them, not to find a reason to exonerate them of their crimes, not to bow before the so-called complexities of human nature, not to reflect on social conflicts, and certainly not to become monsters ourselves.

We are simply looking for a just answer for ourselves — and for all those who still have hope for this world.

(Source: Jinjiang Wenxue Cheng, translated)