A Meeting at South Tower [Crime Investigation]

[Volume 2 updates ongoing]

[Crime investigation and anti-drug fiction. Everything is fictional and serves the story. Please do not compare it to real life.]

Twenty-two years ago, a major transnational case was secretly launched in Nancheng.

An operation that had been carefully carried out undercover for seven years failed because of a leak, and Huo Nanlou's parents both died in the line of duty.

Twenty-two years later, Huo Nanlou fulfilled his wish of becoming a forensic pathologist and joined the Nancheng Municipal Bureau. His daily tasks were eating, taking people apart, and writing reports. His motto was to work himself to the bone as long as it did not kill him.

As for Huo Nanlou, he took the college entrance exam at fourteen and graduated from a combined master's and doctoral program at twenty-three. He's the legendary "coastal beauty," and became deputy director of the forensic department at a young age.

He's perfect in every way: he has a house, a car, and savings, and he's smart and handsome. Unfortunately, he's aloof and sharp-tongued, and spending time with him means regularly experiencing the bafflement of a genius.

Two months ago, Nancheng got a new deputy criminal investigation captain, supposedly a rich second-generation from Mingzhu. To everyone's surprise, the first thing he did after transferring here was not socialize or work, but pursue the police department's beauty!

Huo Nanlou: Please don't bother me if you studied forensic technology. Thanks.

Ordinary days are as short and empty as a wallet at the end of the month. When typhoon season arrived on the coast, Nancheng received a task to mediate a neighborhood dispute. Lu Jianyin, an out-of-towner who wanted to experience the local culture, took matters into his own hands.

They thought it was a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but unexpectedly found an unidentified male corpse. A highly unusual death? A case of mistaken identity? There were no clues at the scene, and the case was baffling. It even led to a case that had rocked the nation two years earlier!

"The living can lie. They can use their silver tongues to make up any story they want. But the dead cannot. A corpse is always the most honest witness."

Flamboyant rich second-generation deputy captain gong x highly intelligent, sharp-tongued deputy director of forensic medicine shou

P.S.:

1. Older gong, both leads are each other's one and only, 1v1 HE. I'll try to make the forensic details easier to stomach. This story is for readers who don't need content warnings or filters. (There will be spoilers.)

2. Plot-driven. The story will have four to five volumes. After Volume 2 ends, I'll revise the story and take a break for a while.

3. Volume 2 updates once every Friday. I'll also start a campus novel around the same time to improve my writing. Please click, bookmark, and comment!

4. My writing isn't great. I'm just writing for fun, so feel free to read casually. If you don't like it, just leave. (๑•ᴗ•๑)♡

Theme: Good and evil are repaid in kind, following you like a shadow.