I mistook the new criminal investigation captain for a corpse.
That rainy night, I was examining a crime scene when I saw a “body” covered with a white sheet, with someone standing beside it. Without a word, I crouched down and started the examination: checking for rigor mortis, lifting the eyelids, taking the temperature, then professionally estimating the time of death.
Then the “corpse” suddenly sat up and stared at me without expression.
I nearly died on the spot.
Even more absurdly, this man really was the new captain, Gu Yan. I'd just spent three minutes touching and pressing him, and even delivered an autopsy report.
Our birth charts are supposedly at odds. No, the fortune-teller said our five elements complement each other, and if we don't marry, we'll face a bloody disaster.
Our parents rushed us off to register our marriage.
Our wedding-night agreement: married in name only, no romance, and separate beds.
But can someone tell me why, whenever I get so scared during a midnight corpse examination that my legs go weak, he's always the first one rushing in?
Why can he swoop in out of nowhere and kick away a criminal when a deranged killer traps me in a locked room?
Why, after agreeing this is a fake marriage, does he tell the entire police station, “My wife is always right,” when my professional skills are questioned?
Then the cold case from twelve years ago is reopened, and I discover that there's more to my father's death than I knew. Gu Yan's secret can no longer stay hidden either...
“Jiang Huohuo, you're not lacking earth in your five elements.”
“What you're lacking is me.”
[A genius forensic doctor with a sharp tongue VS a cool, stoic captain who dabbles in the occult. Two strong leads flirt while solving cases, and every night they teeter on the edge of falling for each other.]
