The Avenger's Secret

Name: The Avenger's Secret
ISBN: 9787513913751

Zhou Yeya民主与建设出版社2017

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Word count: 218K words
Chapters: 29
ISBN: 9787513913751

Summary

The Avenger's Secret is a suspense novel by Zhou Yeya, following her earlier novel The Splendid Qipao. The story begins with a midnight fire: the film-crew makeup artist Hu Siyiao has just learned that her boyfriend and Liu Fangfei died in the flames of an affair, and then she herself is severely disfigured in a car accident. Shattered in body and mind, she does not disappear; instead, she assumes Liu Fangfei's identity and returns to the orphanage where she grew up—a place as gloomy as a prison. Meanwhile, the production assistant Jun Youhan keeps encountering strangers demanding Hu Siyiao's belongings: one is Jun Lian, the father of Hu's ex-boyfriend; the other is Lin Yu, a "twin sister" who appears out of nowhere. Out of curiosity, she accompanies Lin Yu to the orphanage, only to find it steeped in menace: the caretaker Aunt Hui dies mysteriously by poison, Yao Xiaoming, who once looked after Hu Siyiao, dies inexplicably on the way back to the city, and Jun Youhan herself is imprisoned in the cellar by the strange director. Why does Hu Siyiao assume a dead woman's identity? Why does Jun Lian insist on obtaining her belongings? What secret is the orphanage director hiding? As the clues are peeled back layer by layer, a harrowing story buried for thirty years comes to the surface. With delicate atmospheric writing and a narrative that lays ambush upon ambush, the novel unfolds a revenge plotted over a lifetime and probes the complexity of human nature amid betrayal, exploitation, and redemption: when a person has been utterly destroyed, is revenge a matter of mutual ruin, or the only road to deliverance?

Editor's review

这是一本把“复仇”写到骨子里的国产悬疑小说。开篇即是一连串坏消息——偷情、火灾、毁容，作者不吝于把主角逼到绝境，再用“冒用他人身份”这一极具张力的设定，把读者拖进一座阴气森森的孤儿院。书中最吸引人的不是血腥，而是悬念的经营：遗物、孪生姐姐、服毒的看护、被囚禁的地窖，每一条线索都指向同一个方向，却又不肯痛快揭晓，直到接近全书结尾才收回伏笔。作者周业娅擅长情境渲染，这部作品里老楼、雨夜、麻将馆、小镇命案等场景的描写，读来有明确的画面感。全书约二十一万字、二十七章，篇幅适中，节奏偏快，适合在周末一口气读完。对于喜欢《别相信任何人》式心理惊悚，又想看本土化人物关系与家族恩怨的读者，这本书值得一次尝试。

Who it's for

A good fit for

喜欢国产悬疑、推理小说的读者
偏爱身份替换、家族恩怨题材的书迷
想找节奏紧凑、可一口气读完的消遣读物的读者
对孤儿院、老宅等阴郁场景有阅读趣味的读者

Not a good fit for

不接受暴力、死亡与心理压抑描写的读者
偏好轻松治愈、温情日常类作品的读者
只读本格推理、要求严密解谜逻辑的硬核推理迷

Reading tips

建议按章节顺序阅读，本书伏笔密集，跳读容易漏掉关键线索。
读到中段感觉线索纷乱时可先记录人物关系，尾声会集中收回。
夜间阅读氛围感更强，但对阴森场景敏感者建议白天读。
读完可回头看“引子半夜大火”，会发现开篇已埋下结局的暗示。

About the publisher

民主与建设出版社 China · Founded in 1994

Founded in 1994, Democracy and Construction Press organizes its publishing around economic management, the humanities and history, and united front culture, while also covering foreign literature and classic works. Among the 732 titles in the collection are translations of foreign classics such as The Brothers Karamazov and On War, fantasy literature such as The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Illustrated Collector's Edition, and modern literary masterpieces including Lao She's Four Generations Under One Roof and Camel Xiangzi · The Problem of Nothing, and Lu Xun's Call to Arms. Translators Geng Jizhi and Wang Jinhua, together with authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and Carl von Clausewitz, form the resource base for its combination of scholarly translation and general reading. As public information is limited, this description focuses on the publishing profile reflected in the titles held in the collection.

Prologue: Midnight Fire
Chapter One: The Makeup Artist's Death
Chapter Two: A Pitiable Past
Chapter Three: The Car Accident
Chapter Four: The Wealthy Ex-Fiancé's Home
Chapter Five: The Twin Sister
Chapter Six: The Birthplace
Chapter Seven: Aunt Hui
Chapter Eight: Adoption
Chapter Nine: The Trap
Chapter Ten: Rongrong
Chapter Eleven: Lament at He Bridge
Chapter Twelve: Identity Swap
Chapter Thirteen: Childhood
Chapter Fourteen: The Collaborative Project
Chapter Fifteen: Marriage
Chapter Sixteen: Lanyuan
Chapter Seventeen: Confrontation
Chapter Eighteen: Holding the Leverage
Chapter Nineteen: Murder in Fulai Town
Chapter Twenty: The Mahjong Parlor
Chapter Twenty-One: Imprisonment
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Drowning
Chapter Twenty-Three: I Don't Hate You Anymore
Chapter Twenty-Four: Reunion with Old Acquaintances
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Past
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Answer
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Lotus Gardens
Epilogue

FAQ

《复仇者的秘密》是什么类型的书？

这是一部中国当代悬疑长篇小说，由周业娅创作，2017年3月由民主与建设出版社出版。全书围绕一场旷日持久的复仇与一桩尘封三十年的旧事展开，兼具心理悬疑与家族恩怨元素。

这本书的作者周业娅还写过什么？

周业娅是红袖添香原创文学网的知名作家，2005年出版悬疑小说《锦绣旗袍》第一部，被认为是与蔡骏、周德东同类型的畅销悬疑作者。《锦绣旗袍》全二册的修订珍藏版于2016年11月上市。

这本书大概多少字，读起来要多久？

据出版社与书店信息，全书约21.8万字，共266页、27章正文外加引子和尾声。按普通读者每小时三到四万字的速度，大约六至八小时可读完，适合分两三个晚上看完。

故事是独立完结的吗，有没有续集？

目前可查资料显示这是一部独立出版的长篇小说，结尾有明确收束，未见到同系列续作的公开信息。阅读时不必担心未完待续的问题。

这本书适合送给喜欢悬疑的朋友吗？

如果你朋友平时爱看国产悬疑、心理惊悚类小说，这本书的题材和节奏都比较对路；但若对方更偏好温情或轻松题材，或者对死亡、毁容等描写敏感，则不太合适，建议先了解其阅读口味。

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About the author

Zhou Yeya Author

Zhou Yeya is an author about whom relatively little public information is currently available; only one of her works, The Revenge Seeker's Secret, is included in the collection. Judging from the fact that this representative work is categorized under premium fiction and suspense/mystery, her writing tends toward popular fiction that drives the narrative through suspense and unfolds characters' fates amid mysteries and reversals. Because no clear records have been found regarding her dates of birth and death, nationality, educational background, or writing career, it is not yet possible to sketch a complete outline of her life, nor to determine the span of her creative work or her full list of titles. The clues offered by the available material mainly concern her choice of subject matter: a theme of revenge usually involves motive, secrets, and cause and effect, requiring some skill in plot construction and pacing. Readers who wish to learn about her will find the most direct route is still to read the one work included here and to sense her narrative orientation and language style from the text itself.