Awakening: It Starts with Finding a Cat

Lin Xiao never imagined that his life would begin to change because of a cat.

He graduated third in his entire department, only to be sent to a border town and spend three years as a “checked-out” police officer.

He was helping someone look for a cat when a piece of broken porcelain accidentally cut him.

A wound. A drop of dark red blood. A mysterious voice.

“Trace Reading System… activated.”

He could see things no one else could.

The time encoded in footprints, the memories on evidence, the final scene lingering in a corpse’s eyes.

Every buried truth appeared the moment his fingers touched it.

“This cat… didn’t run away. Someone hid it.”

“The last thing the victim saw… was the killer’s face.”

What began with a search for a cat led him to open a door.

Beyond it lay a wrongful conviction from ten years ago, a conspiracy involving the powerful, and his father’s lifelong obsession.

An overlooked small-town cop awakens a criminal investigation System and rises against all odds to become a legendary detective.

[System + Mystery + Criminal Investigation + Rise to the Top + Revenge]

You think it’s about finding a cat?

No, this is where fate changes course.