Handsome, strong, shameless, rough-and-tumble sweetheart (loyal puppy) x upright, blunt, tight-lipped, secretly flirtatious darling (everyone's favorite)
Two police detectives, powerful couple, both virgins, happy ending
Ten years ago, an unsolved serial murder case in Qingjiang City claimed Zhao Li's father in the line of duty. The killer has never been caught.
Ten years later, Zhao Li inherits his father's badge. He's brash and reckless, often hurting himself as much as his enemies. He can burn through half the entire criminal investigation team's health insurance budget on his own.
In his fourth year, the captain finally can't take it anymore and assigns him a newly certified, poker-faced rookie as his partner.
The official reason: Keep that wild horse in check.
Zhao Li knows the new guy, Shen Qingyun. He looks refined and fragile, the type who could be sent flying five meters with one punch, but he graduated with perfect theory scores and barely scraped through his physical exams.
Zhao Li looks down on him. Does this little white flower think he can solve cases with a textbook? He worries the kid will get scared and cry one day.
Until the day Shen Qingyun precisely shoots the knife out of a criminal's hand just as he is about to stab Zhao Li.
Zhao Li grins. "Whoa, nice! So you're not all show."
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Shen Qingyun became a police officer because he wanted to personally arrest the gangster who had tried to drug him and nearly ruined his life.
But when the opportunity comes, he is barred from the case due to conflict-of-interest rules.
The gangster doesn't care about conflict-of-interest rules. He threatens Shen Qingyun, insisting he show up, and plans to kidnap him and die together.
Risking suspension and the loss of his badge, Shen Qingyun goes anyway. At the critical moment, his usually carefree partner Zhao Li shoots through the gangster's hand and saves him.
Afterward, Zhao Li's voice is choked with tears. "Xiao Qingyun, I never knew you were this reckless!"
*
Shen Qingyun has always thought there was something wrong with his partner. As if flirting with him every day weren't enough, Zhao Li also tears down the cool, aloof image Shen worked so hard to build, forcing out his real personality:
A truly innocent little white flower whose mouth is tougher than his life.
He can put up with Zhao Li pretending to pin him against the wall during an arrest, but the man even gets handsy and tickles his waist.
Shen Qingyun pretends to be stern. "Senior Zhao, if you keep this up, I'll arrest you first."
Zhao Li cheekily replies, "I love seeing you hate my guts but be powerless to stop me."
He steals a quick kiss from Shen Qingyun, then immediately runs off, shouting:
"Don't move! Police!"
The crook flees, tears streaming down his face. "Am I part of your little role-play or something?!"
[Reader's Guide]
1. This is not a golden finger detective story! The cases are solved normally; the main focus is the romance.
2. The left-side cop is a walking megaphone full of dirty jokes; the right-side cop is a workaholic. They have a noticeable size difference.
3. "Marriage first, love later." The cases don't follow a conventional episodic format, and the romance develops naturally and takes up a fair share of the story.
Note!! Some details are adjusted for the plot and are not realistic, so please don't scrutinize them too closely.
Theme: Solve cases properly and eat well
