gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian

• gerçek olaylardan uyarlanmıştır. olayın özeti:
  the murder occurred on june 15, 1961. the suspect mao was found by police hugging the victim liu , and initially claimed to be her brother, but later admitted to be her “fiancé” and was arrested.
  
  mao and liu were from neighboring sections of the same school, and started dating the previous year. due to gang-affiliated fighting, mao was expelled from school and liu eventually started spending more time with another classmate ma . mao warned ma to stay away from liu, but when ma refused mao challenged him to a fight.
  
  ma never showed up for the fight, so mao went to liu as she left school. he warned her to stay away from ma, but she refused, and he eventually stabbed her seven times. liu’s mother was a widow, and upon hearing the news of her only daughter’s death, attempted suicide on the same day but was revived at the hospital.
  
  mao was a minor so the law prohibits a sentence of death or life imprisonment, but the judge sentenced him to the maximum penalty of 15 years in prison, plus reparations of nt$129,523. after various appeals it was reduced to 10 years in 1963.
  
  the case was additionally sensitive because it occurred near an office of the united states ınformation service, and because of domestic politics. the victim’s father was an officer from shandong province who died in the chinese civil war, while the suspect’s father was from zhejiang province and worked at the academia sinica (government research institute.) the government leaked love letters to clarify that the murder was a result of an individual quarrel, not some wealthy zhejiang kid bullying a widow/orphan of a military family from shandong.