“—Who is the ‘I’ in the article?”

When I heard this, I could clearly feel countless goose bumps exploding on my back.

Reasoning is ultimately reasoning. No matter how accurate the conclusions come from reasoning do not mean that they must be the truth.

One desperate fact is that in reality, there are often such situations where the reasoning in reality is wrong from the beginning. If you choose the wrong direction at the beginning, it means that one step is wrong, every step is wrong, and the market is lost. The subsequent inferences will often move closer to incredible conclusions, which is a thousand miles away from the truth.

At this moment, what I and Shizuo faced seemed to be exactly this situation.

When he said this, a creepy, extremely weird thought began to take root deep in my heart, circling and lingering.

Of course I know what that is.

If the "I" in the article is not Miss Hao Shuqing, who else could it be?

The answer is unquestionable.

——Who else can I be except for the "He Yu" I keep mentioning in my diary?

If Shi Zuocai's inference is correct, it means... there may never have been such a "Hao Shuqing" Miss in the world.

And as my thoughts moved closer to this direction, countless fragmented results began to move closer to this argument.

"She" knows everything about He Yu, because the person who wrote this blog is not "she", but He Yu himself - no one knows himself better than himself.

"She" showed a nearly pathological and unconditional infatuation with He Yu.

"She"'s sensitivity to colors is very concerning. There are descriptions about colors mentioned in many places in the diary, but many of them seem very strange - "Red is strawberry cake", "yellow is lemon ale", and "blue is halibut in the sea", unlike the evaluation of a certain color that normal humans would make.

There is almost no description of "her"'s diary of being alone when He Yu is away - because she does not exist at all, "she" naturally cannot see things that He Yu cannot see.

"She" is just a character who is completely fictionalized by He Yu, a personality living in imagination. We don't know why she exists and why she "breaks up".

But why are all this?

The picture about "Hao Shuqing" gradually outlined in my mind began to burn, distort, and tumbling irresistible.

The daily life of a loving couple, everything, seemingly sweet scenes—

The woman woke up in bed and saw the notes left for herself by a man on a business trip.

The woman curled up in the bed with dysmenorrhea, and the man brought her brown sugar water.

The woman was rushing to wash dishes and was carried into the room by a man...

All of them became a one-man show directed and acted by He Yu himself.

When I think of the past few years, He Yu once had a passionate relationship with a imagined personality. He played two roles and talked to him. A strong feeling of nausea began to rush into my body, making me feel dizzy and want to vomit.

I was silent for a long time, and it took me a long time to muster up the courage and said to me when I spoke to me:

"What you want to express is that He Yu actually...is schizophrenia... it should be said that it is multiple personality disorder?"

Shi Zuo raised his head, looked at me, and was silent for a few seconds.

“Multiple personality disorder?”

I was stunned. I saw that the puzzled look in his eyes was not like fake, and I was stunned even more.

"Uh...don't you want to express this?"

"I have never thought about this." Shi Zuo shook his head, frowned and pinched his chin:

"However, this is a very interesting way to think about it. Your...think is quite big."

“…”

I felt extremely embarrassed, speechless for a while, and hurriedly spoke up to him one by one, including the speculation that He Yu played two roles.

As a result, Zuo shook his head after listening.

"Although your idea is bold and not impossible. But in this event, this possibility basically does not exist, and a lot of information in that blog can prove this."

"If 'Hao Shuqing' is really He Yu's personality, then it is basically impossible for her to pass the civil service exam and become a painter. The two have many overlaps in their actions. Even if He Yu is a painting genius and can memorize long civil service materials to handle the exam while teaching, he has no clone and cannot play two roles at the same time."

After hearing Zuo Cai’s conclusion, I couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.

But in addition to being disappointed, I also breathed a sigh of relief. Subconsciously, I didn’t want everything about Miss Hao Shuqing to be fictional. This way, I was too cruel to her.

"So, what exactly is the strange thing you have always emphasized?"

Shi Zuo's fingers that had been crossed and he loosened and sat upright.

"This is back to the original question: How do you think we can identify the first-person narrator?"

I thought about it and said:

"Generally speaking, all first-person articles will give some simple introductions to the beginning, right?"

I think of some first-person novels I have read. Generally speaking, after reading the previous chapters, readers can simply and clearly understand the information about "I" in the article: whose surname is, how old, what is the occupation, and what happened. Because the story is written for people, if the readers do not know what "I" as the protagonist is, they will not be able to feel substituted.

Of course, I have also seen some small tricks set by the author using the first-person narrative mode. Maybe you didn't know what "I" was after reading the first two chapters. In the third chapter, you suddenly saw sentences like "Today I came out to find food as usual, and was discovered by the owner of this territory. He raised his slippers and shouted at me angrily, 'Go to death cockroach'!", and the reader would suddenly wake up: Oh, it turns out that "I" in this book is a cockroach!

But no matter what, the identity of "I" will be revealed, and there is no doubt that it will be.

When I made my inference, Zuo pointed out the key points directly:

"The situation you mentioned is a huge difference from the blogs we see. Those articles, novels, stories are written to let readers see... and the content in this blog is not intended to be shared with readers."

I quickly understood the meaning of this sentence: it is precisely because this blog is written for myself or for He Yudian that the author will not spend any effort to introduce himself, because for the author, the "reader group" facing this blog - that is, himself, has long known all the information about "me" in the first person.

This means that the author can use the first person to describe everything throughout the article without explaining who "I" is.

"In other words." Shi Zuo let out a conclusion that shocked me:

"It is difficult to directly confirm who the narrator of this blog is."

My eyes widened:

"But, didn't you say that He Yu could not have multiple personality disorders? If he had no schizophrenia, it would be possible that this blog was written by Hao Shuqing, right?"

"I just said that he is not a multiple personality disorder, and I didn't say that this blog was not written by him."

Shi Zuo said indifferently:

"Have you ever considered the possibility of a narrator in the log being replaced midway?"

I was silent for a while and asked:

"Is there any evidence for this inference?"

"Maybe... there are."

This time, Zuo Cai was looking for the logs very quickly. He turned directly to a year and a half ago and clicked on the first blog with no title and only dates.

【7/6】
Chapter completed!