Stop waiting for some larger-than-life hero story! This novel has no legend of a detective chasing a criminal across a thousand miles. Instead, there's the 50-year-old Chief Shui, who carries an insulated insulin bag when he goes on calls and heads to his wife's follow-up appointment after a night shift. There's no all-powerful genius detective, just Instructor Gong handing out anti-fraud leaflets and getting called a "scammer," then sneaking off to the break room to take oryzanol. There's no glamorous police life, just 23-year-old Chen getting vomited on by a drunk, crouching on the roadside to cry, then still helping an old person find their cat.
It's all "small, exhausting things": making three trips to the old district to mediate a dispute over a leak, waiting outside the building materials market five times to help migrant workers get their wages, or patrolling the dark alleys of the urban villages late at night with sweaty palms. But these little things are where the real warmth lives. Chen, misunderstood by everyone, gets a bag of home-raised eggs from an old person. Zhi Ge, working overtime, gets a bowl of hot noodles left for him by Old Zheng. Wu You, afraid of the dark, accepts a bottle of mineral water offered by a resident.
It doesn't romanticize the hardships of grassroots policing, nor does it shy away from life's difficulties. Some worry about their mortgages, some lose sleep over exams, and some are always struggling with the thought, "I want to quit." But when an emergency call comes in, these ordinary people, flaws and all, still pick up their batons and head out.
If you want to read a story that feels "like everyday life," you'll understand: real protection is never earth-shattering. It's the ordinary persistence of "no matter how hard today is, I'll still be at the dispatch desk tomorrow."
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