Criminal Investigation: The Facade of Illusion

Coming soon: [Criminal Investigation: The Fire of Sin] and [After I Stabbed My Dao Companion, He Became the Heavenly Dao]. Blurbs below, please add them to your reading list~ [Blurb] A bizarre case swept through Fengtan City. The victim had drowned, yet there was no water in their lungs. There were no signs of strangulation, but they had died of suffocation. As panic spread, He Zhen, captain of the criminal investigation squad, hurried back from leave. By coincidence, he met Song Zhiyi, a forensic pathologist who had been transferred in that very day. He Zhen had always looked down on pretty faces he considered useless ornaments. He scoffed at Song Zhiyi: “Another one who got in through connections? What could you possibly do?” But Song Zhiyi calmly replied with an uncommon term: “It was dry drowning.” Then he said to the dumbfounded He Zhen, “Captain He, every case is wrapped in a false appearance. All we can do is peel away the surface and search for the truth. So, I look forward to working with you.” A series of throat-slitting murders, a cannibal circus, corpses sunk in a reservoir, murders involving hearts cut from chests, headless cold cases with no suspects... The truths hidden beneath the surface of these false appearances were slowly unraveled. At the same time, He Zhen gradually realized... He seemed to have discovered a different truth hidden beneath Song Zhiyi’s beautiful appearance. Case 1: [The Surface of Illusion], dry drowning case, complete √ Case 2: [Blood Medicine], serial throat-slitting case, complete √ Case 3: [Close Friends], cannibal circus case, complete √ Case 4: [Flower of Tangdi], no-suspect case, complete √ Case 5: [Sins of a Snowy Night], blizzard-bound manor case, complete √ Case 6: [Sprout], heart removal and corpse dissection case, complete √ Case 7: [The Other Me], Song Zhiyi murder case, complete √ - Reading Guide: 1. CP: elegant, aloof beauty of a forensic pathologist seme (Song Zhiyi) x straightforward puppy-like team captain uke (He Zhen) 2. The author isn’t a professional. All the information comes from the internet, so please feel free to point out any mistakes. 3. Song Zhiyi is the seme!! He’s strong, not a pretty ornament!! 4. This is a serious criminal investigation story, so there may not be much romance. 5. First time doing something with an autopsy table, huh? Tsk. This story is planned to go premium on March 24. There’ll be two days of 10,000-word updates, then 6,000 words daily after it goes premium. Please keep supporting me~ Feel free to check out my upcoming stories too. Muah! [Coming Soon] [Criminal Investigation: The Fire of Sin] Book ID: 7030682 A bizarre case swept in. The victim’s fingers had been cut off, and they died from blood loss. Their terrified expression was horrifying to behold. Criminal investigation PhD Lin Xingyan, recently returned from studying abroad, immediately took over the case. Using his expertise in precision instruments, he determined that the killer’s DNA belonged to someone who had died five years ago. Just as the case reached a dead end, Zheng Xuan, the elusive criminal investigation team’s footprint analysis expert, identified the killer’s appearance and location using nothing but a few remaining footprints at the crime scene, then immediately arrested the fugitive. Afterward, he didn’t forget to mock Lin Xingyan: “Solving cases isn’t about instruments. It’s about brains.” Lin Xingyan looked at his eyes, sharp as a ruler, and issued a challenge: “Then let’s see if you can manage at all without those instruments.” Tongues cut out, corpses blown apart, people steamed to death, people burned to death on copper pillars, people scared to death by their own reflections, people trampled to pieces beneath ox hooves... One bizarre case after another seemed to lead to the Eighteen Levels of Hell and a secret organization. Kindhearted by nature, Lin Xingyan feared there would be more victims. He lowered his guard and made peace with Zheng Xuan. “Let’s call a truce and solve the case together. I’ll be your strongest support.” Zheng Xuan looked at his face, pale as a flower in June, and raised an eyebrow. “Let’s see how sincere Dr. Lin can be.” - CP: irritable footprint expert seme (Zheng Xuan) x resilient, pure-hearted PhD uke (Lin Xingyan) [Coming Soon] [After I Stabbed My Dao Companion, He Became the Heavenly Dao] The Immortal Dominion Sect has a notorious elder named Lu Cangya, who is both insane and foolish. He was born stunningly beautiful, the most attractive person in the world. Unfortunately, he had enough cultivation, but never enough sense. Everyone in the world laughed at him. The only person who showed him any warmth was his sickly Dao companion, Shen Lichuan, who was as cold as a piece of ice jade. His senior brother told him the fish in the cold pool would help Shen Lichuan’s illness. So he lay on the ice for three days in the dead of winter, then brought a silver fish to Shen Lichuan. “A-Li, eat.” The sect leader told him that if he killed the great demon causing trouble at the foot of the mountain and took its gallbladder, he could cure Shen Lichuan’s illness. So he went alone with his sword and killed it, covered in blood and wounds. Then he presented Shen Lichuan with the freshly removed gallbladder. “It’ll be good for A-Li’s health!” Others laughed at him and tricked him, saying that if he killed his husband, he would prove his Dao and be listed alongside Shen Lichuan in the immortal registers. He believed them. So he stabbed Shen Lichuan through the chest. He proved his own immortal Dao. And restored Shen Lichuan to his place as the Heavenly Dao. Shen Lichuan descended like a god and took a strand of Lu Cangya’s life-soul before casting him away. From then on, Lu Cangya was no longer insane or foolish. Yet through the long years, the only thing he remembered was Shen Lichuan’s calm words: “Thank you for accompanying me this far. From now on, we owe each other nothing.” - Reading Guide: 1. CP: indifferent, dispassionate Heavenly Dao seme (Shen Lichuan) x formerly foolish, now sweet-hearted uke (Lu Cangya) 2. Neither of them is truly scum. The uke is foolish because he’s missing a piece of his life-soul, while the seme has cut off his emotions after reclaiming his status as the Heavenly Dao. 3. Both of them get a crematorium of regret. Theme: Join hands with the person you love to solve cold cases and create a better future.