Sharp and aloof on the outside, warmhearted captain Chen Jin × composite sketch artist Qi Jianyao, who has dissociative identity disorder
Qi Jianyao is the police station’s most mysterious sketch artist. She never takes off her mask and never looks people in the eye when she speaks. No one knows that six very different personalities live inside her. Her hellish childhood left her broken, but also gave her the gift of seeing through people.
Criminal investigation captain Chen Jin is the cool ash left after a fire: rational and precise, yet carrying the searing pain of losing his partner. When he brings her a string of unsolved cases, he sees the brokenness beneath her mask, and the rainbow glow of seven fragments of a soul shining together.
“Next time,” he said, quietly taking up a place one step to her left, “I’ll stand here. A little closer to your heart, a little farther from your safe zone.”
When an old murder case reopens her wounds, Chen Jin must protect her life. “Don’t be afraid.” He wiped the blood from her face, touching every crack deep in her soul. “Every side of you deserves to be treated gently by the world.”
He is her first and last line of defense; she is the only light at the heart of his unsolved cases.
