Night Watch Detective

Name: Night Watch Detective
Author: Ao Tu Man

守夜刑警

by Ao Tu Man (奥凸蔓)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 357k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery & Supernatural
Updated: 5mo ago
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Everyone on the Criminal Investigation Team says I'm cursed. Someone died in a case my father investigated, my mother died in front of a mirror, and even my partner nearly lost their life.

Then I took on the dismemberment case.

The victim had been cut into seven pieces, each incision dusted with sandalwood powder. The forensic pathologist said it was the work of a deranged killer. I said it wasn't. Because in the second-floor window at the crime scene, I saw a woman in a red dress.

Rain passed straight through her body.

She stared at me, smiling.

Captain Zhang Jianguo kicked me off the major crimes squad, and my colleagues thought I was crazy. Only forensic pathologist Lin Wan'er helped me take notes, rolling her eyes as she did. Every time I touch a corpse, I see the victim's final seven seconds. In those visions, the killer's face is always a mass of black fog.

But I saw something else: that bronze mirror. In its reflection, the woman in red opened her mouth and silently spoke a single word.

“Chenchen.”

That was my childhood nickname. Only my mother and grandmother knew it.

But my grandmother has been dead for thirty years. She died in front of that mirror.

The first page of my father's notebook reads: “Don't trust Zhang Jianguo.”

And Old Zhou, the retired detective who always offers me a cigarette late at night, says, “Your grandmother isn't dead. She's waiting for you in the mirror.”

Now I have the same dream every night: a shattered bronze mirror, and a voice from deep within its surface repeating

“The seventh sacrifice will be the person closest to you.”

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