Kazama Detective Agency

They say this is a detective agency on the verge of going under:

No license, no staff, no fancy office, just a peeling sign and a lazy boss: Chen Fengjian, an old detective of unknown origins with a sharp tongue and a ruthless hand.

But in the rotten city of K, people trust neither the police nor the government. They trust only the new profession of detective.

In an era when the police are at each other's throats and the powerful believe only in power, the truth can only be uncovered through legwork and connections.

Since "high-tech crime-solving" became something belonging to another world, all private detectives have left to rely on are their eyes, their nerve, their brains, and a final stubborn resolve to fight the darkness.

Then one day, Lin Li, a young man fresh from being kicked out of police academy, his dream not yet entirely shattered, walked in. That's when the story really began.

A ruthless butcher who leaves no trace on rainy nights, a red-lipped woman at the end of the subway, the code behind a missing painting...

They seem like trivial little cases, but each is connected to the deepest secrets of the entire city.

This is just a clichéd detective novel...

(A fictional, modern-day Gotham-like world without fingerprints or GPS. Surveillance cameras and the internet are also underdeveloped.)