Illusory love that subverts life —— Reading Don't Go Out of this Step

Julia and Kate have lived together since childhood. Julia fell in love with Marcus when she was young, gave up her engagement with Hugh and eloped with Marcus to Berlin.

Marcus became addicted to drugs in Berlin, and Julia made a living by taking pictures and selling money. Later, Marcus died of an overdose.

Julia, who is young and ignorant, is very worried about being caught taking drugs. At the suggestion of her friend Frost, she left Marcus, who was waiting to die, fled Berlin and married Hugh. Because she had no children for many years, she adopted Connor, the illegitimate child of her sister Kate. Started her new life.

In fact, Connor was born to Kate and Marcus. When Kate visited Julia in Berlin in the summer vacation when she was fourteen years old, she was pregnant with Marcus, and Julia was kept in the dark.

Marcus' unexpected death was a great blow to his family. His mother committed suicide, his father died later, and his sister Bella went to Paris alone to make a living.

In Paris, Bella goes by the alias "Anna" and happens to be Kate's roommate. Bella learned the truth through the photo "Marcus in the Mirror" that Kate often looked at. Kate's sister Julia is Marcus' girlfriend in Berlin, and Connor is Kate and Marcus' son. Bella thinks Julia abandoned Marcus in Berlin and left him to die. She resented Julia and encouraged Kate to go back to Connor to raise him.

After many unsuccessful requests, Bella suggested that Kate tell Julia the truth about the biological father of the child. Kate refused for fear of hurting Julia.

Bella and Kate didn't mean to kill Kate in an argument. At this time, it happened that Julia's photographic work "Marcus in the Mirror" was exhibited on the same day.

In order to find out the truth about the death of her sister Kate, Julia met Lucas on the one-night stand website, and Lucas awakened Julia's intense teenage love with Marcus, which was a life similar to Kate's that Julia spent in Berlin.

Julia, who wants to find out Kate's killer, falls into a trap designed by Bella for Lucas and falls in love madly.

It seems that Julia saw Lucas kill Kate and gradually began to threaten Connor's safety. Julia shot and killed Lucas to protect her son, but finally learned the truth. Kate's roommate Anna has been helping Julia. She is Marcus' sister Bella.

Lucas, whom Julia loves, is just Anna (Bella)' s "booty call", a trivial pawn in Anna's plan.

Bella arranged everything. Since Julia fled Berlin, she has ruined her beautiful life.

If Julia is content with the status quo, she will live a good life with her husband Hugh, who is a surgeon, and her son Connor, who has excellent grades, and continue her second life. Maybe none of this will happen.

Not content with the status quo, I want to get rid of the dreary family bondage, but I fell into the trap and personally subverted my second life.

Julia loves Marcus deeply, and her life with Marcus in Berlin is also her first life.

She believes that Kate went to a love website in the name of finding the real killer, met Lucas, started an extramarital affair, and the influence of her first life on her second life.

A housewife's illusory love.

Don't go out of this step, don't walk into this illusory dream, curiosity kills cats, and there is a price to pay for exchanging life.

This novel Don't Go Out of this Step is the second best-selling book of British writer S.J. Watson, which inherits the suspense and bizarre style of his debut novel Don't Trust Anyone.

The plot is ups and downs, which continues the author's consistent suspense reasoning style; The ending you think will never be revealed until the end.

The description of women's emotions is also delicate and beautiful, vividly depicting the psychology of a 37-year-old young woman who is deeply mired in love. It is an emotional novel full of suspense and is well worth reading.