Evidence of Cicada Shed

Name: Evidence of Cicada Shed
Author: Smoke Light Water Cooling

by Smoke Light Water Cooling

completed Suspense Detective Mystery Male Lead

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50Kwords60chapters

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Ch. 60 — 蝉声渐远

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About This Novel

On the summer night of 1984, Lin Xingmei, a female cotton mill worker in Nandu City, was murdered. A strange cicada-shaped symbol was carved on the collarbone of her body. Detective Song Cheng was involved in the case for the first time, and he buried his knot in the physical evidence. In the following more than ten years, similar cases occurred occasionally and all remained unsolved. On a rainy night in 1998, the seventh female corpse with cicada marks appeared at a construction site. The investigation pointed to the lonely security guard Wang Zhiguo, but the clues were eventually interrupted mysteriously. It was not until 2024 that Song Cheng's apprentice, young detective Jiang Yichen, used new DNA technology to restart the investigation and found that all the evidence pointed to Zhao Yongming, a "decent man" who was knowledgeable and perfectly disguised. The interrogation becomes a battlefield for psychological games. As Zhao Yongming's twisted "philosophy of love" and the confessions hidden in his diary gradually emerged, a darker truth was revealed: it all stems from his first love, Su Xiaowen, who disappeared in 1983. Behind the cicada-shaped symbol, there is another terrifying inheritance about the "eye collector". Two generations of criminal police spent forty years to finally settle this century-old unsolved case that spanned reform and opening up, the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, and changes in criminal investigation technology. When the chirping of cicadas echoed through Nandu again, they used their lives to explain: The right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life.