2. In the villa of Karuizawa, at the craziest moment, Kumei Koichiro swallowed the poisoned wine containing potassium chloride and injected the remaining wine juice into the mouth of Matsubara Riko;
3. Koichiro Kumi and Riko Matsubara hugged each other tightly and then died.
Paradise Lost begins with the sexual scene of 55-year-old hero Jiu Mu and 38-year-old heroine Lin Zi. People from two different families met a few months ago. At that time, Kumi had just stepped down as the publishing minister of a big publishing house, and Linz was temporarily teaching calligraphy in a cultural center. Jiu Mu appreciated the elegant temperament and beauty of Renzi's dignified calligraphy, while Renzi was moved by Jiu Mu's "melancholy childlike interest". After frequent contact, the two finally walked into the hotel together. The novel immediately spread a large number of sexual scenes.
Later, Jiu Mu's wife urged him to sign the divorce agreement several times, and the publishing house informed him that he would be transferred to a subordinate branch while presenting a malicious slander report. Rinzi's husband punished her by refusing to divorce, and her mother should break off the mother-daughter relationship with her. Finally, Kumi left his house and savings, only a bag of autumn sweaters bid farewell to his wife and daughter, and walked leisurely to the last stop of his life with Linz, and committed suicide in the villa built by Linz's father's house. In his suicide note to "everyone", he wrote: "Forgive us for finally going our own way, please bury us together."
Paradise Lost is a novel by Japanese novelist Junichi Watanabe, which tells the story of a middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman both killed by extramarital affairs.
The heroine Ryoko Matsubara is the wife of a medical professor, and the hero Ichiro Kumei is the editor-in-chief of the publishing house. They met at an accidental party and fell in love quickly, but this affair was not tolerated by family and relatives. This experience makes them feel that there is no eternal love in the world. The only way to let the other person belong to him forever is to end his life with the other person, so both of them take poison and double suicide at the extreme of love.
Paradise Lost won the Japanese Kikuchi Hiroshi Award in 2003? . After the publication of Paradise Lost in 1997, it caused a great sensation in Japanese literary circles, and even the phenomenon of "Paradise Lost" appeared. Then Paradise Lost was also translated into many languages.