Captain Lu, I'm the Person You're Investigating

[Reunited after years apart | Mutual salvation | Rivals on equal footing] Note: Campus + criminal investigation

Seven years ago, Jiang Gui disappeared. No goodbye, no explanation. He left Lu Wang with only one message: "Don't look for me."

After that day, Lu Wang searched for him like a madman for an entire year. No sign of him alive, no body to prove he was dead.

Eventually, everyone assumed Jiang Gui would never come back. Only Lu Wang refused to believe it.

Seven years later, the investigation into a long-buried serial case is reopened.

A criminal profiler arrives at the city bureau from elsewhere. The man wears gold-rimmed glasses and has a gentle, refined air about him. Beneath the conference room lights, he seems to have nothing to do with bloodshed or crime.

Until Lu Wang opens the door and their eyes meet. The air freezes in an instant. The man who vanished seven years ago is standing right in front of him.

On the night they reunite, the hallway outside the interrogation room is deserted. Lu Wang blocks Jiang Gui's way. In the seven years since they'd last met, he'd grown a little taller and grown thinner. Behind his gold-rimmed glasses, his eyes are still maddeningly cold, as if he had never thought of Lu Wang all these years.

Lu Wang stares at him and suddenly smiles. "Professor Jiang, it's been seven years. Have you learned how to avoid me?"

But as the investigation deepens, more and more bizarre clues come to light: files erased by someone, death records that cannot be verified, people who should have died seven years ago, and inexplicable scars on Jiang Gui's body.

Lu Wang suddenly realizes that Jiang Gui's departure back then may not have been a betrayal at all. It may have been a seven-year journey toward death.

"I've hated you for seven years."

"But as long as you turn back, I'll still be here to catch you."