A Different Story
----by Alabama

I cannot be convinced that Mrs. Gu Kailai murdered Mr. Neil Heywood because of business dispute. What kind of business can they have? However, I do believe a 50+ years old woman can do anything to protect her son, not to mention her only son. To a 50+ years old woman, her son is the pearl in her crown, isn't he?

Please take close look at Mr. Heywood's picture. Do you see gay in him? If you don't, then you probably haven't lived in the West for long.

Over the years, Mr. Heywood seduced Bo Guagua. The two fell in love. This affair caused Guagua's deteriorated school performance. His mother eventually realized this. She tried hard to stop their relationship. She had Guagua transferred to America. But she found Guagua still kept in touch with Mr. Heywood. She was mad. She directly confronted Heywood, and even threatened him. But Mr. Heywood thought the mother's intervene was ridiculous. In his belief, love is a busines between two individuals, men or women. No one else should block or break their love.

Eventually the mother was convinced that this relationship would ruin her only beloved son (though in Chinese perspective). The only way to stop it is to put Heywood away for good.

She did it.

The entire plotting is orchestrated by Mrs. Gu single-handedly. Mr. Bo Xilai only vaguely suspected his wife's involvement.

Mr. Wang Lijun was assigned to Heywood case. Knowing the victim was Bo family's close friend, Mr. Wang worked very hard on the case. He took the case as his personal endeavor because he had always been grateful to his boss Mr. Bo. He wanted to impress Mr. Bo. But as the investigation went on, more and more clues emerged out pointing to Mr. Bo's wife. One may imagine that the murder plan was executed in such improvised and amateur way that left much evidence. Fearing the consequence, several of Mr. Wang's assistants resigned. Mr. Wang thought of resignation too. He also thought of sealing the case to protect his boss. However he knew he couldn't. He knew he was not the only one on the case. There were those who resigned.

Mr. Wang struggled in agony for quite a while before he finally consulted his boss Mr. Bo for a way out. As it turned out, Mr. Bo was an arrogant bastard. He even did not give Mr. Wang a chance to tell the whole story, including critical information such as how much evidence there was and how indisputable these evidence was? etc. To him Mr. Wang was merely a running dog who shouldn't have even brought this matter to him. He thought he could end the investigation simply by removing Mr. Wang and arresting anyone who had access to the evidence or on the case. Mr. Bo made a fatal mistake! He underestimated the mounting evidence Mr. Wang's team had built up. He even failed to discuss the matter in details with his wife before he fell into a rage on Mr. Wang.

In the immediate following days after losing his office, Mr. Wang still hoped things would stop there. His new job may not be the one he loved best but it was a job of same compensation level. However, he quickly realized he was wrong. His former assistants started to disappear. He found himself being followed and under constant surveillance. Mr. Bo may have realized severity of the situation after talking with his wife. He obviously stepped up further evidence/witness destroying measures. Mr. Wang started to feel great danger - if they can kill one they can kill more. In desperate, he entered US consulate, where he handed copies of evidence to the US personnel. It was these documents that lately prompted British government's request for re-opening of Mr. Heywood's case.

Mr. Wang had no idea what his fate would be when leaving the consulate, but he made sure that he would not die silently into history and he would not die with indignity. After all, a man's greatest concern when facing death is his afterworld dignity.

Mrs. Gu's final word to her son, as per her relatives, was: "Be good. Live a quiet and peaceful life. Have a family. Stay away from China. Mom loves you".

Twenty-five years later, somewhere in California.

Guagua finally walked out of the shadow of his family catastrophe. His father died of natural cause in prison a few years after his mother death. He accepted it as that his mom killed someone because of business dispute, and of course, should face justice. Nevertheless, he followed his mother's wish. He married an American girl. They have two lovely daughters. They have sufficient money to live a peaceful and yet reclusive life. Recently he found his older teenager daughter Gloria spent a lot of time together with some other girls. Her school performance was deteriorating. Last night, he accidentally entered Gloria's room. He saw Gloria with a blonde girl lying in bed half naked. There were syringes scattered on the floor.

Guagua went blank. He rushed back to his room. He subconsciously opened a storage closet to reach for his revolver. An old picture slipped out to the floor.

It was his mom - young, beautiful and elegant.

Guagua freezed. He felt such heartbreaking pain that he had never experienced before. The picture became blurry, blurry and blurry. He saw a lonely and frail old woman walking out of that old picture. He saw tears in her eyes.

That exactly is:

纷纷世事无穷尽 天数茫茫不可逃