When she woke up, seventeen-year-old Shen Qinghe had become a junior police officer in a public security compound in the 1960s.
To avoid being sent to the countryside, she took over her mother's secure government job.
Her colleagues thought she was a helpless little kid who needed looking after, while the neighbors saw her as a harmless girl next door.
Little did they know, this compound was Shen Qinghe's biggest source of juicy gossip!
The widower next door runs away with his lover, losing both his money and his dignity. The newlyweds across the way put on a show of their own, then get into a huge fight. The old woman in the back courtyard secretly eats peach pastries and pretends to be dead, alarming the whole neighborhood. Ghostly flames flicker in the communal toilet, but it's just a mischievous kid causing trouble...
Following her gossip-loving principle of “knowing the plot but not interfering,” Shen Qinghe gets all the latest dirt and happily immerses herself in the action.
Until one day, Grandpa Wang grabs her with a mysterious look and says, “Little Qinghe, there have been a lot of unfamiliar faces around our compound lately...”
Behind a series of seemingly trivial disputes, a hidden thread seems to be taking shape.
When real danger quietly closes in on the lively community she loves, Shen Qinghe realizes she can no longer just watch and gossip.
See how our junior police officer uses her knack for digging up gossip to uncover hidden dangers and protect the everyday life of everyone in the compound.
It's really good. I don't know why I didn't rate it. I read the previous one and rarely commented on it, but I liked it so much. Kudos to the author.