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A new cook has arrived at Jici Temple's vegetarian kitchen. He's strikingly beautiful, doesn't abstain from meat or alcohol, and insults everyone he meets, living or dead. Still, he's helped the police solve plenty of cold cases:
A bride stuffed in a suitcase and dumped on the street, a suspected victimized wife calling to ask for help, a dead man knocking on the door in the middle of the night, a bloody six-fingered print left behind…
Everything is baffling, but Lin Hezhi always manages to make the dead “tell” the truth.
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One day, a wealthy businessman came seeking him out to discuss a cold case.
Lin Hezhi listened to the man tell his story in vivid detail. Without even looking up, he tipped the tofu he'd cut into hair-thin strands into the vegetarian hot pot. “Why make up a bloody story and ask people to find the killer? Is it meant to whet your appetite? Any dietary restrictions?”
A month later, the bloody story came true.
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The police tried several times to recruit Lin Hezhi as a consultant, but he refused to leave the rundown temple. Seeing how bustling the vegetarian kitchen was, an embarrassed officer smiled awkwardly. “Those scars on your hands, you got them from practicing with a knife, right?”
The old monk smiled faintly. “They're precept scars.”
“I don't have anything I can give you. Perhaps the truth, and nothing else.”
Reader's guide:
1. The male lead has a small benign tumor between the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the amygdala. It makes him exceptionally intelligent, but he struggles to empathize with others and longs to experience human emotions. He's asexual, and his only love is solving cases. No CP, no romance.
2. Please avoid spoilers in the comments if possible, given the subject matter. The author has no experience working in forensic medicine, so feel free to point out any mistakes.
Published modern crime novel → *Crime Investigation: Rose of the Forbidden Zone*
My new sci-fi mystery, *Jianshouqing*, is now underway~
The Tianxian Special Forces Team has been assigned a “nepotism hire” who only wants to coast until retirement. He's fair and handsome, has an F-rated combat ability, and nobody knows what his illness is. Once a month, he passes out from pain.
The sadistic instructor Salienke says, “If I let a good-for-nothing like you pass the assessment, I'll go give myself ten lashes in the punishment room.”
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On the higher-dimensional battlefield, every soul develops an ability from the core of its desires. Yang Yu's psychic ability is a tiny, chubby mushroom glowing green.
“I suggest you name your ability [Useless].”
“Zero defense? Its only attack is spitting out a few spores? When danger comes, you have to root yourself to the ground and can't even run?!”
Yet whether faced with his teammates' sarcasm, Captain Salienke's death glare, or an S-class contaminant that drives people insane, Yang Yu's main strategy is to remain emotionally stable. Extremely stable. :)
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Nobody expected Yang Yu to scrape through every assessment;
During mock combat, he led the bottom-ranked squad to victory;
When higher dimensions invaded, glowing green hyphae saved one teammate after another, and the tentacled S-class contaminant curled itself into a well-behaved little octopus before the glowing mushroom…
Nobody knows that Yang Yu is an agent for the Star Alliance Security Department. He spent three years undercover and single-handedly destroyed the Alliance's largest contaminant-crystal smuggling network, but was badly injured in the process. He still has the Dark Web's highest bounty on his head: an S-class ability that excels at mental control and inducing hallucinations, with the codename “Jianshouqing.”
Theme: A kind environment encourages people to make kind choices. We can always choose to be kind.
I found that many authors who don't know how to write emotional lines give up on emotional lines and write without cp, but all the lines are very awkward...
I just cried to death, I just hope that the two brothers, even Shan and Duan Xia, can shine, don't care about other people's opinions and mean-mouthed people, and don't go against yourself or wrong yourself in order to fulfill others. Always trust each other and go on happily, and don't get yourself into trouble for unnecessary things that have nothing to do with you. Anyway, I really congratulate them and wish them well.
It's very interesting. I watched it yesterday and finished it today. The death of his brother in the main plot was really too sudden, but think about it, this may be the best ending. He truly experienced his brother's life, felt everything about his brother, and finally did what he could to let his brother live without worries.
But I still look forward to the extra story. Two such good people should grow up happily together and live happily!
I was waiting to read this book while it was being serialized. I totally agree with what editor Gui Lin said. The main reason why I stopped reading after reading two or three stories was that the emotional line was completely divorced from the article... I felt that these two characters could not express this kind of relationship. This is good. Although I am sorry for my brother's death, death is also the best ending for him. I like Officer Shan very much. He is the continuation of the Duan team. It is he and the people around him and Puji Temple who taught his younger brother the fireworks of the world, making the twins a positive example and finally get rid of the possibility of anti-social tendencies. The idea is very good, and the case design is also very good, although there are some places where the writing seems weak. Come on, look forward to the next non-CP criminal investigation
So in fact, Lin Xiao never heard He Zhi call him brother.
The if line is so beautiful that it makes you cry. [Crying] Why am I crying so much? It's because this is an IF line.
Nice! Great criminal investigation without CP Moduo Moduo! !
[Prick-eared Rabbit Head] Although I read the review a long time ago, I still come back and leave it for a while. Although it is a pity that my brother's death is doomed. I hope that my brother will continue to serve the people with our single deputy team accompanied by AI.
I found that many authors who don't know how to write emotional lines give up on emotional lines and write without cp, but all the lines are very awkward...
I just cried to death, I just hope that the two brothers, even Shan and Duan Xia, can shine, don't care about other people's opinions and mean-mouthed people, and don't go against yourself or wrong yourself in order to fulfill others. Always trust each other and go on happily, and don't get yourself into trouble for unnecessary things that have nothing to do with you. Anyway, I really congratulate them and wish them well.
It's very interesting. I watched it yesterday and finished it today. The death of his brother in the main plot was really too sudden, but think about it, this may be the best ending. He truly experienced his brother's life, felt everything about his brother, and finally did what he could to let his brother live without worries. But I still look forward to the extra story. Two such good people should grow up happily together and live happily!
I was waiting to read this book while it was being serialized. I totally agree with what editor Gui Lin said. The main reason why I stopped reading after reading two or three stories was that the emotional line was completely divorced from the article... I felt that these two characters could not express this kind of relationship. This is good. Although I am sorry for my brother's death, death is also the best ending for him. I like Officer Shan very much. He is the continuation of the Duan team. It is he and the people around him and Puji Temple who taught his younger brother the fireworks of the world, making the twins a positive example and finally get rid of the possibility of anti-social tendencies. The idea is very good, and the case design is also very good, although there are some places where the writing seems weak. Come on, look forward to the next non-CP criminal investigation
So in fact, Lin Xiao never heard He Zhi call him brother.
The if line is so beautiful that it makes you cry. [Crying] Why am I crying so much? It's because this is an IF line.
Nice! Great criminal investigation without CP Moduo Moduo! !
[Prick-eared Rabbit Head] Although I read the review a long time ago, I still come back and leave it for a while. Although it is a pity that my brother's death is doomed. I hope that my brother will continue to serve the people with our single deputy team accompanied by AI.
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,,
Good wishes will always surround them, and I hope their lives will be simple and beautiful. Gossips and jealousy plots without anyone interfering