Lin Chen is an orphan and a perfect-score genius from the police academy. When he joins a grassroots police station, nobody wants to mentor him, and the whole team treats him as the weakest rookie.
No one knows he has the ultimate talent for criminal investigation: top-tier behavioral analysis, mind-reading through microexpressions, and devastating psychological tactics. He also has the makings of a god-tier detective: wherever a case breaks out, he’s always there, and there’s always a murder.
From scams and fraud to brawls, kidnappings, and serial murders, every criminal is an expert at disguise and denial, clamming up and refusing to confess.
The veteran officers hit walls, cases grind to a dead end, and the whole team is at a loss. The standoff seems impossible to break.
A stray blade of grass everyone overlooked, a microexpression lasting 0.1 seconds, an abnormal movement, a mismatched trail, a psychological slip...
Each becomes ironclad evidence in Lin Chen’s hands.
He doesn’t show off, act unilaterally, or steamroll his way through cases from the start.
He works through each case step by step, narrowing down the culprit and connecting every fragmented clue. With airtight deductions and a flawless chain of evidence, he tears away every criminal’s disguise!
The whole station goes from looking down on him and mocking him to staring in astonishment and worship.
His talkative teammate Zhao Lei is always there to speak for him, coasting along and clinging to his coattails as the whole team racks up achievements alongside the rookie.
A meteoric rise through the ranks of grassroots policing, a battle of wits between good and evil, one devoted female lead by his side for the long haul, and a thousand cases and a thousand killers. The excitement never lets up!
Five million words of hard-boiled criminal investigation, with every case an exemplary crime-solving scene straight out of a textbook!
