Yu Lin, captain of the criminal police in the capital, was the one true love of screenwriter Lang Zhenzhen.
Her breakout work, The Pursuit of a Killer, was based on him.
One day, Lang Zhenzhen's soul returned to the Ming Dynasty, and she found herself in the body of a man with a saber at his waist and the power of life and death in his hands.
He took in a scrawny girl who had been beaten to within an inch of her life. She chewed betel nut and drank strong liquor, and was so taciturn that three slaps could not get a word out of her. But she could follow clues and track down killers over a thousand li. Her name was Yu Lin, too.
Lang Zhenzhen took her under his wing, protecting and doting on her. They spent six years married, and even on his deathbed he never confessed why he cherished her so deeply.
Yu Lin understood everything. After she had finished preparing Lang Zhenzhen's body for burial, she climbed into the coffin and followed him in death.
Back in the present, Lang Zhenzhen was invited by the Publicity Bureau to take on another suspense project, and was assigned to experience life with the city bureau's criminal police team. This time, she was welcomed by Captain Yu Lin.
They were strangers: Yu Lin had never even met her. They knew each other all too well: 600 years ago, they had been a devoted married couple.
Reader's Guide:
1. Happy ending + single-couple romance + one-on-one pairing.
2. The Black Book is too heavy. This story just wants to love wholeheartedly: to love passionately and steadily in an adult world full of worldly wisdom, obsession, weighing gains and losses, and complexity.
3. If it's not for you, let's part on good terms. The sea of books is vast, and there's always one you'll love.
Theme: Gratitude for life's deprivations and gifts.
