A calm, collected, gentle, rational criminal investigation captain seme × a self-destructive, battle-worn former rock star uke, 1v1, happy ending
[Romance-focused blurb]
At 33, Lu Rongqian is the captain of the First Action Team at the Special Criminal Investigation Bureau, a rising star in the field of solving transnational crimes, with a brilliantly bright future ahead of him.
At 33, Hua Sinian is disgraced, homeless, and at the end of his rope. The only thing keeping him going is finding out whether his parents’ deaths were really an accident.
Back then, Lu Rongqian never could have imagined he would meet someone like him,
then watch him risk his life for him again and again, putting himself in mortal danger time after time.
Only after that did Lu Rongqian slowly realize:
Hua Sinian cooked for him, investigated cases for him, took a knife for him. He did everything for him and was willing to die for him, yet couldn’t believe Lu Rongqian would let him stay.
A sociologist said, “In his own mind, he has constructed a profoundly unequal relationship.”
A psychologist said, “He has Stockholm syndrome.”
A criminal investigation expert said, “He’s an abyss. One day, he’ll drag you down with him.”
Even Lu Rongqian himself said, “He’s sick.”
But who says you have to let go just because someone’s sick?
If he’s sick, then of course he needs treatment.
And Lu Rongqian is going to treat him himself.
If he can’t cure him, he’ll spend his whole life trying.
[Plot-focused blurb]
Lu Rongqian, captain of the Beijiang City Criminal Investigation Team, catches someone who shouldn’t be there at a staged “suicide scene”:
Hua Sinian, a rock prodigy who vanished 15 years ago.
This washed-up star has an astonishing memory and a gift for numbers, and all he wants is to uncover the truth behind an old case.
Lu Rongqian needs a partner, while Hua Sinian needs a shortcut. They hit it off at once, but as they work together, they get in deeper and deeper, becoming entangled in a criminal network that spans the globe.
They travel from country to country, plunging into hitman organizations, drug cartels, scam compounds, and more. Each time they delve deeper, they get one step closer to the “Rock Boy Murder Case” from 15 years ago.
Lu Rongqian gradually realizes that Hua Sinian really is investigating the case, but he never intended to come out of it alive.
This is a story about “a hunter and his bait.”
Lu Rongqian has to solve more than just a case. He also has to save someone who has long since given up hope of surviving.
[Plot and romance proceed side by side, with neither taking a back seat]
[The manuscript is complete. I won’t abandon it or leave it unfinished. Just look at the 1.8-million-word monstrosity next door and you’ll see.]
[Set in a fictional modern world. All countries, places, institutions, and characters are fictional.]
A little preview of my upcoming novel:
"Willpower Failure [Interstellar]"
[An upright agent forced to work overtime to care for a dangerous consultant gong × a brilliant scientist who seems obedient but is stubborn to the core shou]
[The silly blurb]
The Alliance assigns Lin Du a new technical consultant.
The good news: the consultant is very clever.
The bad news: the consultant is dangerous.
The worse news: an execution device has been implanted in the consultant’s body, and Lin Du has sole authorization to use it.
After they meet, Lin Du discovers that the reality bears little resemblance to the sales pitch.
The Velo standing before him has a poor memory, is always half a beat slow, and can’t even repair his own terminal.
Looking at this person, who gets anxious for ages just because he broke a drinking glass, Lin Du falls into deep thought:
How is this the dangerous person the Alliance warned him about?
He’s clearly a large stray cat who was mistreated for a long time, was finally taken in, and refuses under any circumstances to leave Lin Du’s home.
Lin Du applies to return him, but one night, Velo climbs into Lin Du’s bed with a pillow in his arms.
Lin Du falls silent for three seconds, then kicks him to the floor.
The next morning, he finds that Velo isn’t angry. He’s sitting quietly in the living room with his computer, having spent the whole night studying.
For the first time, Lin Du thinks this consultant might actually be a little dangerous, just not in the way the Alliance described.
[The serious blurb]
Many years later, humanity finally achieves a perfect fusion of machinery and life.
People gain stronger bodies and powers they once could never have imagined, but no one expects this evolution to become a catastrophe.
The person who created it all chooses, in the final moments of his life, to return to the past, to an age when humanity still possessed free will…
Theme: The search for justice, hope, and redemption
I'm so afraid that someone will be caught, but I also think the battle damage is a bit delicious 🥺 Oops
One urgent day is not enough to edit a chapter, and I don't mean editing. I heard a teacher say that the most tiring time for a painter is when he is not painting anything. The process of thinking and polishing is full of indescribable hardships. Writing, same thing Writing criminal investigation articles is very tiring, thank you My rations are on the table, read slowly A word, a thing, a ray of light may stimulate you, the plot, the characters, the scene, etc. It's never too late, there's nothing left From zero (clear) to wind (popular), maybe there are thousands of mountains and rivers in between
We, Huahua, reminded us of hh [spreading flowers]
I thought you had your own rhythm, Hua'er!!! What's going on [scared]
It really scared me, I thought it would take a long time 😭
[Afraid] All at once... Start to get nervous
No rush, take your time Slow work and careful work It's as short as it is long, until the end of time
It's so beautifully written, why isn't it popular [covering face, laughing and crying]
I actually wrote so much aa
AaAfter arriving here, Xiao Lu fully understood Hua Hua's purpose.