Reborn in 1997: Solving Cold Cases at the Municipal Public Security Bureau

Chen Yan died on the final night of his investigation into the “9/17 White Bones Case.”

When he opened his eyes again, he was reborn in 1997 as the most overlooked junior officer in the archives room of the Yunzhou Public Security Bureau.

That year, the bodies found in the river on rainy nights had yet to become part of a string of murders.

The missing-person case at the guesthouse had yet to be dismissed as a runaway.

The traffickers at the long-distance bus station had yet to get their victims out of the city.

Some of the victims in the mine district’s White Bones Case were still alive.

Other people flipped through the files and saw only stacks of old paper.

Chen Yan knew that behind those sealed case files lay unsolved cases, miscarriages of justice, and bloody crimes from the next twenty years.

In this life, he would not wait for evidence to disappear, bodies to be found, or murderers to evade justice for years.

Starting with the bodies found in the river on rainy nights, he stepped onto the front lines of criminal investigation, one step at a time.

The veteran detectives didn’t trust him.

His superiors suspected him.

The killer thought he had covered his tracks perfectly.

Chen Yan simply smiled.

“Don’t rush. I’ll take them one at a time.”