What If I Haven't Been Arrested Because I Didn't Commit a Crime?

. Shen Yuan Mingzhun comes from a family of police officers. He grew up at the police station in a strict household, and is level-headed and upright. Yet he is constantly suspected of being a deeply cunning antisocial personality and a naturally gifted high-IQ criminal in the making. After becoming a police officer, he is regularly reported by criminals for entrapment, while his colleagues suspect he is a thrill-seeker who abuses his position to satisfy his own desires.

Accused every day and reported wherever he goes, he never leaves behind a shred of evidence. The looks his colleagues give him have shifted from sympathy to bafflement, then to fervor, as though they were looking at a walking, talking source of record-breaking results.

Shen Yuan Mingzhun: "..."

Shen Yuan Mingzhun: "Could it possibly be that I haven't been arrested because I haven't committed a crime, rather than because I'm so good at covering my tracks that I destroy all the evidence in advance?"

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Shen Yuan Mingzhun has been in low spirits lately. His colleagues at the police station have noticed that even the city's crime rate has visibly dropped.

His superior, who has watched him grow up, calls him in for a talk: "Listen, you little rascal, tell me the truth. You really haven't...?"

Shen Yuan Mingzhun, who has recently been caught up in a whirlwind of romantic rumors: "I really didn't write that many love letters. How would I have had the time to date so many people at once?"

His superior, struggling: "If I have to choose, then I hope you wrote a lot of love letters. I'm a little more willing to accept you committing bigamy than any other crime."

Shen Yuan Mingzhun: "Do I really have to commit a crime today?"

■ Strange things happen around the protagonist. Apart from people mistaking him for a high-IQ criminal, there are also some misunderstandings needed for the plot, mainly that people think he wrote love letters to confess to several people. In fact, the letters were written by the protagonist in the bad ending timeline to save people, with the aim of getting the protagonist in this timeline to cross paths with them.

■ This story is an abandoned draft of The Way of Opening the Door Is a Little Off (a preview of the original Bo Mingchuan 2.0 version). Its relationship to The Door Is Open is like toilet paper to instant noodles: that is, there's no real connection. Some readers said they liked this version better, so I've made it a short story of its own and filled in a hole in my collection of stories that I never write.

■ The whole story is around 100,000 words. I'll write as much as I can. There's no dramatic, twist-filled plot, just romance from beginning to end. My wandering tastes have led me here today, so interested readers can give it a try. If it's not for you, stop reading in time.

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