Whisk Dust Investigation of Old Cases
拂尘勘旧案
by Wood-Dwelling Tiger (木栖虎)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 93k Words
- Genre
- Romance
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 3mo ago
- Source
- JJWXC
Stats
Tags
- ThemeMystery
- POVDual POV
- Age18+
- Dialogue-Style
- High IQ
- Horror
- Mind-Bending
- Suspense Mystery
- Urban
Synopsis
Twenty-four-year-old Su Wan is a house cleaner who specializes in cleaning houses where people have died. This job allows her to buy haunted houses that everyone avoids at very low prices, and it also allows her to enter scenes that are hastily sealed by the police and no one wants to take a second look at them. She has her own set of rules: Exploration is more important than cleaning. Others mop the floor to keep it clean. She mops the floor to dig out the things hidden under the floor. A former Chinese teacher who hanged himself in the old town, a female tenant living alone in the north of the city who was poisoned by gas, a disabled old man who died in a fire in a lumber factory, the only son of a wealthy family who drowned in the swimming pool of Bibo Villa... Behind every haunted house is a deceased person who has been hastily classified as an "accident." Su Wan took a shovel, reagents, and a handful of one-yuan coins that never left her body, and time and again pried open the floor, broke open hidden compartments, and pulled out evidence that had been dusty for many years from the cracks in the wall. She used the dirtiest work to say the cleanest words for the dead. Three lines are slowly tightening under her feet - her sister Su Qing fell to her death from the terrace of the villa of wealthy man Lin Zhenghong three years ago, and her body is still missing; her mother is in urgent need of surgery fees in the late stage of kidney failure, and every penny is weighing on her life; and what is emerging underground in this city is a murderous game that is darker and larger than any haunted house and is still running today. Starting with a shovel, he ended up buying his enemy's entire villa. From speaking for the first deceased, to prying open an entire hollow wall and finding my biological sister who had been sealed inside for three years. Su Wan is not a policeman, a lawyer, or a reporter. She was just a cleaner - but this city owed too many people the truth, and she decided to clean them all without leaving the ground. Purpose: When murder cases are systematically forgotten, who will speak for those who can no longer speak? The protagonist Su Wan is the cleaner of a haunted house - a low-level profession considered "unlucky". But this identity gives her authority that the police do not have and time that reporters do not have. She can pry open the welded secret compartments, restore the cleaned blood stains, and buy the haunted house where the criminal evidence is hidden. What the novel wants to express is not "fighting violence with violence", but "fighting forgetfulness with labor." Su Wan earned every penny by painting walls and mopping floors, and every piece of evidence was obtained through the dirtiest and most tiring manual labor. She's not a superhero, just a regular person who's willing to put her hands into corners that others don't want to touch. The cleanest justice often wears the dirtiest work clothes. Every forgotten dead deserves to be remembered by name - to remember them is to fight against the hands that try to erase everything.