[Crime Investigation] A City Lost in Midsummer

[Romance, complete]

Cen Xia has always been gentle, reserved, and considerate.

Yet everyone in her life is only a casual acquaintance. No one has ever glimpsed the secret buried deep in her heart.

Three years ago, when she changed her appearance and took a new name to come to Haishi, she buried her entire past, but a new life never came.

Not until three years later...

A terrifying serial murder case, hidden illegal drugs, a mysterious faith, and the baffling truth behind events from three years ago... She thought she had left the shadows of her past behind, never realizing that this was the beginning of an entire conspiracy.

I came from the abyss, and I’m bound for the human world.

Cen Xia: gentle and levelheaded, IQ maxed out, and full of secrets × Zhuang Song: a goofball, but a reliable head of the criminal investigation squad

Note: The romance is extremely subtle and only made explicit in the bonus chapters. The main story can be read as a female-led novel with no romance.