It rained in Haishi for seventy-three days.
They met on the rainy night of the seventy-third day.
Shen Ye is the youngest captain of the serious crime detachment.
Be ruthless, speak few words, and solve the case at the risk of your life. He is called "Shen King of Hell" in the circle. When the case is in his hands, the living will speak and the dead will speak.
Lu Shichen is a forensic doctor assigned by the provincial department.
When people from the provincial government came down, they were either gilded or exiled. He is not like the former. Not like the latter either.
He is like a light. Too lonely. So lonely that no one dares to come close.
On the first rainy night, Shen Ye saw him at the corpse scene. The white shirt was soaked and stuck to his back, and the outlines of his shoulder blades were pierced, like two thin knives.
He squatted next to the body, without a raincoat or gloves.
Shen Ye walked over and handed him a cigarette.
Lu Shichen didn't answer.
"My name is Shen Ye."
"Lu Shichen."
"Welcome to Haishi."
Later, Lu Shichen thought, if he hadn't picked up the cigarette that night, if Shen Ye hadn't thrown his coat to him, if...
There is no if.
The rain in Haishi is too heavy. It's big enough to trap two people under the same umbrella, and it's big enough to make two corpses look like the same face.
They begin to investigate a woman who has been missing for three months.
Then it was discovered that she was already dead.
Then it turns out she's not the first.
Then they discovered that someone was waiting for them.
Wait until they find the door. Wait until they open that door. Wait until they see the eye in the crack of the door
Looking at themselves.
The night is too long.
He thought he could only go alone.
Until someone held a lamp and walked into his rain.
When solving the case, Shen Ye blocked a knife for him.
The knife passed between the ribs, missing the heart by three millimeters.
Lu Shichen held him in his arms and waited for the ambulance in the rainy night. Blood was gushing out from between my fingers, and I couldn't hold it down no matter how hard I pressed it.
"Chen Ye——"
Shen Ye opened his eyes and looked at him.
Smiled.
"Lu Shichen," he said, his voice as soft as rain, "I've been thinking that it would be worth it if I could see you before I die."
Lu Shichen looked down at him.
The rain hit my face, and I couldn't tell whether it was rain or something else.
"What are you looking at me doing?"
Shen Ye didn't answer.
His eyes were closed.
Lu Shichen held his hand.
That hand is getting cold.
He squeezed the hand tighter.
"Chen Ye."
It rained heavily.
"You haven't looked at me yet."
Later, someone asked Shen Ye when it started.
Shen Ye thought for a while.
"From the first rainy night, he stood alone in the rain."
"I just thought, I decided on this lamp."
The rain in Haishi is still falling.
But someone came with a lantern.
No matter how long the night is, it can't block that lone light.
He waited.
Concept: The night is too long. But it doesn't matter.
Someone comes with a lantern.
What is reflected is not the night, but each other.
That's enough.