Having worked on so many life-and-death cases, Hou has often seen situations in which "those who deserved to die live, but those who deserved to live die." He says that sometimes an officer you drink tea or eat a meal with one day is blown away the next.
辦過這麼多出生入死的案子，經常面對的狀態是「該死的沒死，不該死的卻死了」，侯友宜說，有時，前一天還在跟你泡茶、吃飯的傢伙，第二天就被乾掉了。