Holographic Crime Simulator: I’ll Only Play This Once

[Important Reading Notice: This novel is set in an imagined future. The immersive game simulates crimes, and everything is fictional. Please do not draw parallels with real life.] As a high-risk human, Ye Sangsan receives an invitation to beta-test the immersive game "Crime Files". With its high degree of freedom, broad compatibility, and remarkably realistic simulations based on real criminal cases, the game draws enormous attention as soon as its beta test is announced. As a condition of participating in the beta, she has to livestream her gameplay. Fragile, beautiful, and quiet: those are the words people use to describe Ye Sangsan. The game is one the entire nation has been eagerly anticipating, so many people are baffled when they see Ye Sangsan. Then come the sneers. “Her playing a criminal? The victim would probably fight back and kill her on the spot.” “She’s supposed to play an investigator? Is she going to be a useless pretty face dragging everyone down?” “A victim escaping alive? Give me a break.” But as the cases unfold, Ye Sangsan gradually leaves the audience speechless. “Criminal!!! Waaah, lock her up already! I’m terrified of how easily she kills people!” “Investigator? Come on, can you guys keep up with Sangsan?” “Victim! Ahhh, what is this, a blood-soaked battlefield?” The livestream goes from a flood of skepticism to a wave of admiration. Some even suspect that she’s a highly intelligent criminal in real life. Then Ye Sangsan’s immersive crime-scene simulations start helping solve one real case after another. Audience: What?! Ye Sangsan faces the camera: Please note, I’m only acting this once. [Reading Notes] 1. This novel is set in an imagined future. The immersive game simulates crimes, and everything is fictional. Please do not draw parallels with real life. 2. Some parts of the novel are based on real cases. 3. Please don’t mention other authors’ works in the comments on my novel, or mention my work in other authors’ comment sections. Thank you! 4. The heroine is attracted to intelligence. Recommended completed novel by a friend: "I Made a Name for Myself with the Good and Evil System" by Yuluo Chuanglian, Article ID: 7365041 Blurb: Lin Shuyue, a police academy student, dies while doing a good deed. But she doesn’t die completely. Instead, she transmigrates into a parallel world and becomes an intern reporter with the same name. Seeing that her newly bound Good and Evil System has only three hours left on its life countdown, Lin Shuyue falls into deep thought: She’s alive, but not entirely. She can only extend her life by exposing criminals and helping the police arrest them! Luckily, the System comes with a criminal-scanning radar that can distinguish between good and evil, and it randomly gives out rewards. Otherwise, she’d be done for! To stay alive, she infiltrates criminal gangs one after another. As she investigates criminals and exposes the truth, she becomes an outstanding investigative journalist, racks up all kinds of journalism awards, and even becomes the youngest recipient of a lifetime achievement award… A captured human trafficker: I look like an honest, decent person, but she walked right up and smacked me twice… An A-rank fugitive: She said she’d find me somewhere nice, then took me straight to the police station… A principal at an internet addiction treatment school: I just wanted to give the kids a little treatment with electric shocks, but she saw me and insisted on giving me a taste of it too… A bureau chief: “Ahem, Reporter Lin, when are you coming over to visit?” A special task force leader: “Reporter Lin, we’ve got a major case… Interested in hearing about it?” Theme: Everything leaves a trace