Mysterious Lotus Casebook: Old Friends Return Together

[Lotus Casebook TV Series Fanfiction + Shared Hardship + Fang Hua + Choosing the Ending You Like]

(The story broadly follows the series, but there are still differences. Anything that doesn’t match the show is my own invention. The logic may not hold up, so please don’t flame me.)

Di Feisheng: “Not bad, kid. I hear you came up with a new sword style over the past eight years. How about we test it out?”

Fang Duobing: “Alliance Leader Di, you jest. How could I possibly compare to you? Besides, you know that I...”

By then, Di Feisheng understood. The kid had spent most of his time practicing Yangzhou Slow, saying he needed to be ready to cure Li Lianhua’s poison when they found him.

Several days later, Wuyan reported that he had found traces of Li Lianhua in a remote fishing village. But...

Given all the signs, the two had no choice but to accept that Li Lianhua was dead. He had died three months after the broken sword incident!

From then on, Fang Duobing lost his will to live. His health worsened by the day, and no medicine could save him. Within a few months, he passed away...

When he opened his eyes again, the first person he saw was Wangfu, who had already died. In Wangfu’s hands was a notice recruiting criminal investigators for the Baichuan Court, and the date printed on it was unmistakably the eighth year after the Battle of the East Sea!

You rotten Lotus, as long as I’m alive this time, you’re not leaving me behind again, no matter what!