Red on the Left, Black on the Right

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Jiang Senduye was unlucky.

He woke up one morning with no memories and somehow ended up with a System that forced him to attend police academy and become a good cop who put the public interest first.

Jiang Senduye was exhausted. Sure, being a civil servant meant a stable job paid by the state, but being a cop was dangerous and exhausting. Couldn't he just lie low and do nothing? Unfortunately, he ran into a group of ambitious classmates.

As the saying goes, you become like those you spend time with. Under pressure, he was forced to get his act together. With his classmates' encouragement and help, he made rapid progress in every assessment and even received an invitation from the public security authorities to go undercover in a major transnational criminal organization, with the goal of putting every last criminal behind bars as soon as possible.

Later, the System returned the memories it had been keeping safe for him. He discovered that his surname was actually Karasuma, and, by an unlikely coincidence, he was related by blood to the Boss of the very criminal organization he had infiltrated. If the Boss died, he'd inherit the estate. And in his memories, he was embracing a cool, poker-faced guy and boasting that the two of them would become the top assassin team in the underworld.

So he thrived in the organization, even reclaiming the codename he'd once used and meeting the legendary Boss.

Jiang Senduye: Thanks for asking. What kind of dark humor is this? I should just shoot myself and give up.

The System kindly reminded him: Your dear classmates are going to die one by one. They'll sacrifice themselves bravely for the public good, and their obituaries will praise their glorious achievements and sacrifices, bringing their lives to a close. Only one of your golden-haired, dark-skinned classmates will be left alone in the abyss, a silver bullet aimed at the heart of the Crow.

Jiang Senduye went numb. Jiang Senduye lowered his gun.

No. He had to overturn his classmates' death flags, and his old partner couldn't die either.

"No thread can bind extreme madness, just as empty words cannot ease pain."

P.S. The protagonist is a true criminal. This is a System novel, with lots of wild plot ideas later on and a heavily altered timeline and plot. There's no romance in the main story. The protagonist and the Police Academy Trio save each other, and he wavers between the good and evil factions before making his choice.

Theme: Every choice you make matters