The Wild Wind Disturbs Me [Crime Investigation]

[Next up]: “Crime Abyss 2: Life and Death [Criminal Investigation].” Shi Cining and Shao Linchuan are back.

Chen Qing is the captain of the Criminal Investigation Corps. Ji Mingjing is a newly transferred interrogation expert with the Corps. They have never met before. When they first meet, Ji Mingjing greets him warmly, but Chen Qing does not even look up. “Mm.”

Ji Mingjing is left standing there, a little awkwardly.

There is something different about Chen Qing.

Despite meeting again and again at the police station, Ji Mingjing never manages to strike up a conversation with Chen Qing. He barely speaks and is as cold as an iceberg. He works almost without sleeping, work and more work. There is nothing in his life but work.

Chen Qing often suffers from stomach pain, but he still insists on going out on calls. Ji Mingjing sees it all. He asks a friend about the most effective stomach medicine, buys some, and gives it to Chen Qing. For the first time, Chen Qing looks up and studies Ji Mingjing carefully.

Then comes a case involving an undercover investigation. The Criminal Investigation Team must choose two officers who have never taken part in an undercover operation. The result: Chen Qing volunteers, and Ji Mingjing volunteers.

Ji Mingjing’s undercover identity is that of a university professor, while Chen Qing is his graduate student. After class each day, the two have to share a dorm room because of the university’s requirements. Unfortunately, there is only one bed in their room, so they have no choice but to squeeze into it together.

That night, Chen Qing has a bout of stomach pain and trembles all over. Ji Mingjing, behind him, feels his way over and holds him. His hot palm rests against Chen Qing’s cold, rigid stomach as he says softly in the dark, “Relax, Captain Chen... Chen Qing, are your stomach spasms really bad? Relax... It’s all right. I’ll take care of you. Take a deep breath... Once you’re feeling a little steadier, I’ll go get your medicine.”

Chen Qing says nothing and does not resist Ji Mingjing’s care.

After the undercover operation ends, the relationship between Chen Qing and Ji Mingjing becomes a little complicated. But what truly unlocks Chen Qing’s heart, so full of secrets, happens just before a dangerous mission.

“We’re going to make an arrest. He’s armed, so don’t come with me,” Chen Qing says coldly. “I don’t have a home or anyone to worry about. You’re different.”

“You have a home. You have me,” Ji Mingjing says. “Just like during that undercover mission, I’ll volunteer again. I, Ji Mingjing, want you to have a home. How about it, Captain Chen?”

“Chen Qing, I’m here. Don’t keep trying to bear everything alone.”

#You said nothing, but the wild wind startled me

[Character setup] Both are C-virgins: a sickly beauty, restrained, self-destructive, devoted, and tragic bottom × a wealthy, gentle, older top who is utterly devoted. A touch of healing. I originally wanted to write a marriage-first, love-later story, but it doesn’t seem quite right for this subject. There is a false teacher-student relationship.

Blurb backup [2026.4.21]. I may make some small adjustments later, but the main plot will not change.

[Next up]: “Crime Abyss 2: Life and Death [Criminal Investigation].”

A very important figure has arrived in Ningjiang New District, everyone says so, but nobody knows anything about him. They only know that he is very rich, his private villa is enormous, and he often hosts parties. The place is brightly lit day and night.

At first, none of this has anything to do with the Ningjiang Municipal Public Security Bureau. That changes when the “important figure” is found dead in his swimming pool, bloated into a giant cadaver. A passerby sees him and calls the police.

The major crimes unit led by Shi Cining and Shao Linchuan receives orders and immediately heads to the scene. There is only one victim in this case so far, but it shakes Shi Cining and Shao Linchuan more deeply than any previous case, even far more than the “9.28 Mass Murder Case.”

The reasons:

1. After reporting the death, the passerby receives psychological counseling from the police. The bloated corpse, its fat burst open and spilling out, is standing up and smiling.

2. A face has been sewn onto the bloated corpse. It is not a counterfeit. It is real, and it belonged to someone who was once alive.

3. The bloated corpse is not smiling. The sewn-on face is.

4. There are notes and a telephone on the “important figure’s” desk. They reveal banned drugs with obscure names, black-market contacts, and several ways to log into the dark web. They called the deceased “Mr. Da.”

5. There is a hidden room in the villa, and the stench of rotting human flesh seeps through the door. This is within Shao Linchuan’s area of expertise. He can identify the odors of at least three different stages of decomposition, but one person cannot die in three stages. Before opening the hidden door, Shao Linchuan has already reached a conclusion: there are at least three bodies inside. At least.

6. The police find an invitation addressed specifically to Shi Cining and Shao Linchuan. If they fail to arrive on time, a cruise ship in China carrying six hundred people will sink.

The handwritten invitation comes with two cruise tickets. The ship is scheduled to depart in half a month, giving the police only fifteen days.

It turns out that “Mr. Da’s” death was no accident. It was an open declaration, part of a massive, carefully planned case that will kill six hundred people, including Shi Cining and Shao Linchuan.

The black market, smuggling, the dark web, dismemberment, cannibalism, serial murder, a cruise ship serving as a den: those nightmares have returned.

Three years later, Shi Cining is once again tossing and turning with anxiety. He is worried about Shao Linchuan’s safety, the one person he loves most, with an unwavering certainty.

A violent bout of anxiety brings on sudden stomach spasms. Ever since his surgery for gastric bleeding, this always happens. He grips the bedsheets in pain, immediately waking Shao Linchuan, who is also sleepless.

Shao Linchuan holds Shi Cining from behind and moves his cold hand away from his stomach, where he has been pressing it tightly. He pulls Shi Cining completely into his arms, his hands warm as they gently rub the coldest, hardest part of his abdomen.

Shao Linchuan has always taken Shi Cining’s weakness and pain upon himself this way. Afraid that talking at night will upset Shi Cining and affect his sleep, he usually comforts him silently until the pain passes, then slowly pats him and coaxes him back to sleep.

But this time, Shao Linchuan speaks in the dark. “Ningning, I’m ready... Ready for anything, even if we die.”

“We won’t,” Shi Cining says, his voice trembling from the severe stomach pain. But his tone is as certain as Shao Linchuan’s was on that morning three years ago, when they had sworn to share life and death. “I’ll take you home.”

#I’ll take you home, just as you took me home when we were children.

#Before us, the rain pours down. Behind us, a thousand homes shine with lights.

Screenshot backup date [2026.4.29], three minor revisions [2026.5.13]. Plagiarism and borrowing will be pursued. This book is quite challenging for my current skill level, so I need more time to develop it. I expect to start writing it in 2027.

Theme: This sorrow has nothing to do with the wind or the moon.