"Jade City", "斯人独憔悴"

[fiefoe]

First in Fonda Lee's The Green Bone Saga. A solid Chinese mafia family saga with magical jade as props. Too bad there's not enough novelty value for me.

__ “Screw you, Hilo,” she snapped. “I can kill my ex-boyfriends myself.”
__ Possibilities that lay in the past were illusions, closed doors, as meaningless as unfulfilled intentions.
__ She thought, Two strong-minded women in a man’s world, if they do not quickly become allies, are destined to be incurable rivals.
__ All he knew now was that remorse had a natural limit. After a certain amount of time, it finished eating a person hollow and had to alchemize into anger that could be turned outward lest it consume its host entirely.
__ The Son family and other Lantern Man petitioners had wanted Hilo to send his men to intimidate the union bosses and break up their gatherings, rough folks up if needed, force them back to work. Hilo had snorted. "What do they think we are? Hired thugs?”

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中学时候看的严沁，那么多年之后还记得名字完全是因为题材（对当时没见过世面的我来说）特别。现在看来都不好意思笑话这样过家家式的谍战文，反证以前自己的弱智口味。四十章里一场正面的打戏都不给安排一个，男主父亲专门跑到儿童乐园里面去含冤自杀，大写的故弄玄虚藐视基本逻辑。

——“不必了，我约好妈妈有事，”她半垂着头：“无论如何——很感谢你。”
　　立刻，她转身离开。
　　在转身的—霎那，她仿佛看见他眼中有些失望的光芒，但——也看不真切。
　　因为——他没有理由失望。

——一直到第二天早上，姮柔还是觉得迷糊。
　　那样一个似开会又不似开会的聚会，那么多人聚在一起就讲斯亦天，正的反的纠缠不清，到大家离开也没有什么结论。
　　这是开什么会呢？
　　她出来时看见陆健的汽车还在，竟然也没有避嫌的上去——她根本没想到避嫌。