Trainee Auxiliary Police Officer: The Major Crimes Unit Begs Me to Stop Working Night Shifts

Lu Yan is just a low-ranking community officer at Shuguang Police Station. By day, nobody listens when he mediates disputes; on night shifts, people sneer that he has “no law enforcement authority.”

Then, on his first night shift, an ordinary “neighbor’s leaking water” dispute comes in.

With his focus razor-sharp, Lu Yan’s adrenaline surges and his five senses instantly sharpen:

[Water leaking from upstairs? No, there’s a faint smell of blood mixed in with the water stains.]

[Nobody answering the door? No, there’s the sound of muffled struggling and whimpering from behind the wall, as if someone’s mouth is being clamped shut.]

The veteran officer tells him not to stick his nose into other people’s business. His partner tells him to stop taking responsibility for things as a civilian officer. The shift supervisor even chews him out for stirring things up without evidence.

Lu Yan instead goes over their heads and files a report, then makes one phone call that jolts the chief of the city bureau’s criminal investigation squad awake.

From that night on, a saying spreads through the underworld and the authorities of Binjiang City:

By day, you can look down on that young man in a civilian police uniform.

But at night, don’t you dare turn off your phone.

Because whenever Lu Yan is on the night shift, none of the city’s major crime squads or underworld bosses will get a good night’s sleep.