#anyway this came out of nowhere and hit me like the car that rear-ended zhou junmao

[neuxue]

where some authors would give you an unremarkable scene transition, priest likes to keep it interesting by giving you an existential crisis

负责处理这起事故的交警姓邱，又是骆闻舟的熟人——骆队的熟人满世界都是，遍布三百六十行。// The traffic officer responsible for handling this accident was a Mr Qiu, an acquaintance of Luo Wenzhou — the world was full of a wide range of Luo Wenzhou's acquaintances. 费渡冷眼旁观，认为骆闻舟这样的人，一定是从小成长在一个非常宽松且开明的环境里，年幼的时候，享受过毫无保留的宠爱和关注，才能在他经历了风霜雨雪、见识过人心险恶，甚至出于职业需要，变得精明又敏锐之后，骨子里依然对整个世界敞开着怀抱。// Observing from the sidelines, Fei Du thought someone like Luo Wenzhou must have grown up in a highly open and comfortable environment, enjoying unreserved love and care. Only then could he — despite the storms he had weathered and the darkness he had seen within the human heart, despite becoming keen and shrewd as his career demanded — still face the world with open arms. 有时候往大街上一站，看那些经过的男女老少们，感觉每个人都差不多，你穿着衬衫长裤、我也穿着衬衫长裤，低头一看，路边散步的退休老人和金发碧眼的外国人踩的是同一个牌子的运动鞋，几乎让人有种“这是同一个世界”的幻觉。// Looking out at the street full of people passing by — men and women, young and old — it can sometimes seem as if everyone is more or less the same. You're wearing a shirt and trousers; I'm wearing a shirt and trousers; and when you look down, the retired elderly out for a stroll wear the same brand of trainers as the blond blue-eyed foreigners. It can create the illusion that 'it's all the same world'. 活在阳光下的人想象���出旁边磕牙打屁的小伙伴遭受着无法挣脱并习以为常的折磨，抑郁深重的人不能理解那些呼啸而过的人竟真的不是强颜欢笑。// One living in sunlight cannot imagine the constant and inescapable torment of the friend chatting idly beside them; one caught deep in depression cannot comprehend that those who pass by are not forcing their laughter. 就像此时，[费渡]和骆闻舟站在一起，乍一看，好像他们来自同一国的。// Just as now, [Fei Du] and Luo Wenzhou stood side by side, seeming at a glance as if they came from the same place. 皮囊往往把真相藏得滴水不漏。// One's outward appearance was often a watertight seal wrapped around the truth.

and then blithely continuing on into lighthearted humour as if everything is fine and there's nothing at all here to unpack.