The hard-luck college student Chanel dies from overwork after studying all night, then transmigrates to 1990s Hong Kong. Her new identity is an inspector in the West Kowloon Major Crimes Unit. Her family runs a restaurant, and her boyfriend is handsome and wealthy. She's the winner of the love, career, and family jackpot.
Solving cases?
Easy. She studied criminal investigation before transmigrating, so solving cases comes naturally: the Rainy Night Butcher case, the brine goose husband-cooking case, the Mong Kok body-dissolving case, the body-in-a-cardboard-box case... She's cracked them all.
The family restaurant is on the verge of closing?
No problem. She has a trove of improved Cantonese recipes in her head. Business will soon be booming, and earning three Michelin stars is just around the corner.
The only fly in the ointment is that the new inspector in the Forensic Science Division, Fong Tsz-him, is pleasant to everyone except her.
Why?
When Chanel visits her boyfriend's home, she discovers that Fong Tsz-him is her boyfriend's younger brother.
Got it. He must be worried she's after his brother's money and has ulterior motives.
Good news: She's really not.
Bad news: It isn't until Fong Tsz-him pins Chanel to the bed that she finally realizes he's the ex-boyfriend the original owner ruthlessly dumped ten years ago!
Ten years ago, Fong Tsz-him had eyes only for her, his tenderness as gentle as water.
Ten years later, he still has eyes only for her, but now he's consumed by hatred.
She'll enjoy the original owner's blessings, but she also has to repay the original owner's debts!
But... what about her handsome, wealthy current boyfriend?
Fong Tsz-him never imagined he'd run into Chanel while investigating a murder. Ten years ago, when their love was at its most intense, she broke up with him for no apparent reason. Her phone number was disconnected, and she never replied to his emails. He could never find her again.
Now she had somehow become his older brother's girlfriend, and she didn't even remember him. What, then, was the deep, unforgettable pain he'd endured for all those years?
He was going to steal her away!
But... what about his devoted, honorable older brother?
[Little scene] Fong Tsz-him's bedroom
"If I hadn't come home today, would the next time we met be at your wedding to Big Brother? Hmm... sister-in-law?" Fong Tsz-him pressed closer and closer until she fell onto the bed.
Chanel struggled, eyes red. "Please let me go."
Fong Tsz-him's gaze was utterly tender. "If you want Big Brother to find out you're lying in my bed, then by all means, keep shouting."
(Blurb posted on 2025.10.21)
[Before You Read]
A love-hate entanglement, rekindled romance, one-on-one relationships at various stages, and a hero who fights to win her over
Theme: Righteousness will triumph over evil.
