The 275th Dawn [Criminal Investigation]

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[This story will be premium from November 1. Chapters 23 onward will be locked, and chapter 96 will be the last locked chapter. There will be three chapters on the day it goes premium.]

At eighteen, Li Liangzhi is thrown from 2008 into 2020 by an accident.

Before he can even find his boyfriend, Lu Mingchuan, to complain, he learns that the two of them have been separated by death for more than ten years.

But who is the man standing before him, bringing him a bouquet of lilies every day and looking exactly like Lu Mingchuan?

"Officer Li, you've got the wrong person." Luan Yunjian looks down coldly at the young man clinging tightly to him.

At a task force meeting, eighteen-year-old Xiao Li pretends to be as composed as a squad leader, but beneath the table he clutches a Nokia that was discontinued over a decade ago and frantically prays to himself:

"Bro, help me, help me, help me..."

At the same time, the soul of the thirty-year-old head of the narcotics squad is stuffed into an eighteen-year-old body.

He opens his eyes and sees a young Lu Mingchuan, so fresh-faced he looks as if a pinch would draw water. The ecstasy of having him back nearly overwhelms him.

"Liangzhi, what's wrong? Are you sick?" the young man asks, leaning toward him with concern.

He can only bite down hard on his tongue to suppress his deranged urge to devour the person before him.

Together, they crack the Rainbow case, tracking it from the university district to an underground club network, before being separated by an undercover operation.

When they meet again, it's in a life-and-death confrontation between the CEO of a publicly listed company and the head of the narcotics squad.

A Nokia N95 spans twelve years, as two souls become entangled in the wrong bodies.

Thirty-year-old Li Liangzhi decisively kisses Lu Mingchuan in the snowy night of 2008.

Eighteen-year-old Li Liangzhi holds Luan Yunjian in the bitter wind of 2020 and says, "I'll wait for you to come back."

When rainbow becomes a codename for drugs, lilies become murder weapons, and an orphanage becomes a warehouse for crime.

After a "silent betrayal" in the name of "protection," how will those who walk against the light spend their lives bringing about a dawn long overdue?

2020: A martyr-like lone wolf, cold on the surface but deeply devoted and restrained, vs. a sickly little wildcat, beautiful, strong, and miserable, but soft-hearted to a fault.

2008: A gentle, loyal puppy who pretends to wag his tail and act obedient but is actually obsessive and unhinged, vs. an arrogant big cat, unshakably strong and stubborn, but soft-hearted underneath.

Reading Guide:

1. Two timelines, with the souls of eighteen-year-old Li Liangzhi and thirty-year-old Li Liangzhi switching bodies.

2. Frequent switches between the two points of view early on. The 2008 and 2020 timelines alternate and progress in parallel. The story is not told in chronological order within one timeline, but both timelines have complete storylines.

3. Lu Mingchuan = Luan Yunjian, the same person in a past life and this one.

4. The main storyline follows narcotics and criminal investigations. Cases make up about sixty percent of the story. Plot-driven, not purely romance.

5. The leads are mutually devoted. One-on-one romance, no pairing changes, happy ending.

Quietly promoting my upcoming story, The Fog Hides the Long Pavilion [Showbiz]. The main draw is a dog-blooded, groveling-to-win-back-the-wife plot.

Theme: Dance with the abyss, walk alongside the dawn