Lu Qi's death

On March 23, 1967, Lo Kei's body was found hanging from the top bunk bed in a small unit in the Jordan Valley Ngau Tau Kok Resettlement Estate, his feet on the ground, knees slightly bent in a kneeling position.

On April 5, 1966, Lo Kei appeared at the Central Star Ferry Pier wearing a red trench coat, light-colored shorts, white socks, and black shoes, in support of young hunger strikers protesting the five-cent fare increase for Star Ferry's first-class seats. That night, he became the leader of the march and demonstration, sparking two nights of unrest thereafter. The police fired tear gas, wooden bullets, and used pistols and light machine guns to disperse the crowd, resulting in one demonstrator shot dead, three demonstrators wounded by gunfire, and 1,465 arrests.

Lo Kei's death was ruled a suicide by the coroner's court after a three-day hearing. The unit where Lo Kei was found hanging was provided by a "friend" he hadn't known before. At the time of or before his death, his lips were a deep, vivid red, as if he had bitten his lower lip. There was blood on the back of his feet. Disappointment, fear, betrayal, doubt, alienation, and loneliness after the passionate outburst: if Lo Kei did not commit suicide. That passionate era. We all fear the fourth possibility: "unknown cause." "open verdict." We learned nothing from history except emotion.

Lo Kei was born in Hong Kong on May 1, 1947. Very suspenseful: that day was Labour Day. On April 4, 1966, there was heavy rain. There was a solar eclipse one day. An earthquake one day. One cool day; a woman Lo Kei saw, "darling," she wore a grey sweater.

My non-fiction novel: lexical conflicts, mutual betrayals: it can only be this way.