The Laid-Back Detective's Slacking Days at the Wuchang Bureau

Name: The Laid-Back Detective's Slacking Days at the Wuchang Bureau
Author: Yellow Pigeon

摆烂刑警的无常司摸鱼日常

by Yellow Pigeon (黄鸽)

Status: Completed
Length: 277k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
Updated: 4mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Transmigrated into the Dali Temple as a low-ranking clerk in its most peripheral Office of the Impermanent, Li Xian finds himself from the start in a dead end: the department has had no results for three years and is about to be shut down. While everyone else starts with a golden finger, he has no such luck.

He only wants to earn enough credit to keep his secure job, clock out on time, and go home to lie flat. But he never expects the deeper he digs into the cases, the more things unravel...

He thinks he is solving cases. In truth, from the moment he submits his first closing report, he has become the sharpest blade on someone else's chessboard.

When the person he trusts most falls in a dark alley, using their dying breath to entrust him with one last copper key, Li Xian finally gives up slacking off.

In the end, he confronts the Minister of Justice with forged corruption records: "I don't want a promotion or riches. I just want a permanent position in the Office of the Impermanent."

After all...

You can only slack off once you've done your job so well that nobody can find fault with it.

P.S. The new book, I Lost My Sense of Smell for Three Years, and Now I Can Smell Lies, is now available. Come check it out! (●'◡'●)

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