I Was Mistaken for a Suspect from the Start, Then Stole the Show

When Song Lizi was very young, he fell gravely ill. That illness gave him the ability to communicate with ghosts and monsters.

Years later, he met Shen Wen, a stoic, useless man, and joined Team Zero. Together, they solved a series of bizarre cases, including a cling-film murder, a body dumped from a high-rise, foul-smelling tap water, and human-flesh buns.

Gradually, the two became more and more entangled.

Excerpt One

“When I was very young, I fell seriously ill. I was almost dead.”

“My grandmother took me everywhere in search of a doctor. In the end, she somehow got hold of a folk remedy.”

“They made pills out of the ashes of the dead, then used a relative as an ingredient and tricked me into taking them when I was only three months old.”

“To stay alive, I ate the ashes of so many people.”

“Even you're afraid of me, aren't you?”

Song Lizi hooked Shen Wen's chin with one hand. The young man was covered in blood, his voice cool and slightly hoarse, his expression utterly indifferent. He looked like a king surveying the world, as if nothing in existence could catch his eye.

“What a pain. I should never have agreed to this in the first place.”

Excerpt Two

Shen Wen: “Good.”

Shen Wen: “Be good and wash the tomato juice off yourself.”

Stoic and cold × Aloof, sharp-tongued, and tsundere