Falling in Love in a Crime Investigation Novel

[Advance notice: This story is entirely fictional and has no connection to reality.]

[My next book will be called Raising a Kid as a Useless Stepdad, dropping some not-so-subtle hints, hehe.]

I'm sorry, everyone. While writing this, I felt that the second world wasn't working out very well, so I've decided to put this story on hold for now.

I'll start a new book first to lift my spirits.

I won't abandon it, I won't! (I really love watching little saplings grow.)

Thank you all for your support. I'm tentatively planning to start again in mid-May (I'll get right back to writing, I've already started building up a backlog, ahhh!) and then continue with the remaining worlds.

"Bows deeply, bows deeply"

Blurb:

021 is a System whose job is to enter crime-investigation novels and bind itself to various side characters with somewhat abnormal mentalities.

That's because people say, "Geniuses are always madmen." The more abnormal their psychology, the better they are at solving crimes.

But later, it realizes that this is complete nonsense!

After binding itself to these side characters with psychological issues, it finds that they always go out of their way to hassle the protagonists and make things difficult for them.

021 screams, Don't go after them!

Why have all these side characters ended up together with the protagonists?

The side characters, one and all: Even crime-solving stories can't keep us from falling in love.

World One: Mystery writer gong x forensic doctor shou (complete, ready to read)

Gong Xu is a popular mystery novelist who looks harmless, but no one knows that he can be bad-tempered. Then he meets Forensic Doctor Jian, and the two of them are swept up in a passionate encounter that leaves them bound together. Gong Xu dusts himself off and tries to leave, never expecting the haughty Forensic Doctor Jian to burst into tears.

World Two: CEO gong who gave up being a cop x crazy junior shou (in progress)

Yan Heng Zhou spent ten years stuck as a mere squad leader because of his temperament, so he struck out on his own as a CEO and built a successful business. Just then, a junior investigator got stuck on a case. Counting on his good looks, the junior pulled every trick he could to make his idol take responsibility for him. But Yan Heng Zhou soon discovered that his idol was extreme in his actions and far from normal in his thinking.

World Three: Good guy and lie-detection expert gong x celibate criminal psychology professor

Fan Yan has extraordinary lie-detection skills. A rare natural analyst of microexpressions, he can tell whether a suspect is lying with just one look. But he acts far too arrogantly, and ends up offending a psychology professor.

World Four: Attention-seeking feng shui master gong x crime scene investigator shou

Yu Chun set up a ritual array in his university dorm room and used fortune-telling to predict who his wife would be. But his wife turned out to be a man, and one who likes to hit people, taking off half your life with a single punch. Yet Yu Chun is stubborn and obsessive, and always believes his predictions, so he follows his wife around even as he gets beaten.

World Five: Magician gong x crime reporter shou

Yi Si Jue is incredible at magic and looks like the very picture of someone destined for greatness. But he has one fatal flaw: he's had a lot of romantic entanglements and falls for everyone he meets. When a reporter catches him exposing the trick behind one of his magic acts, he doesn't get angry. Instead, he takes a liking to the young reporter.

One mystery after another lies before them, while the protagonists' pasts are gradually revealed to these side characters.

"Our pasts are both such a mess. Doesn't that make us a perfect match?"

1. The gong characters have no knowledge of what happens later and solve the cases on their own.

2. Both are sexually inexperienced, and they save each other.

3. It's structured like an anthology.

4. The worlds will mostly follow the same outline, but I'll keep making changes as I write, including to character settings, so please forgive me, sob.

5. Updates every night at 11:30. If I haven't posted, I'm late. I'll ask for leave if something comes up.

Advance notice for another book, please add it to your collection!

Ying Wuxia had already been dead for ages. Then he came back to life.

After dying, he'd transmigrated into a book. The story told how the protagonist was bullied as a child and had his cultivation destroyed, then died a tragic death because he trusted the wrong person after reaching the heights of cultivation.

Ying Wuxia: That's the protagonist? This is the protagonist?

But he transmigrated when the beautiful, tragic, and powerful protagonist was still a child. The protagonist was already miserable, and Ying Wuxia had become his soon-to-die stepdad.

To clarify, he was also a useless dad:

Useless at everything, but a champion at hitting kids.

But the little protagonist adores his useless stepdad,

so much so that his stepdad's murder inspires him to work hard and improve himself.

He cultivates diligently because his stepdad tells him to. He holds back his hatred because his stepdad tells him to love everyone in the world.

The little one remembers every offhand remark from his useless stepdad.

Looking at the little one, Ying Wuxia, now in someone else's body, is overcome with fatherly affection. How hard can being a stepdad be? He'll do it.

Later, the little one grows up to be more and more handsome and joins the most famous cultivation sect. Because the little one's talent is exceptional and he insists on it, Ying Wuxia moves into the sect and lives there with him.

Former cultivation big shot Ying Wuxia: This is the perfect place for a vacation.

So he pretends to be weak while wandering all over the cultivation sect, until he runs into the little one's master.

The master is very handsome, and Ying Wuxia likes him a lot. The only downside is that he's very aloof.

Taking advantage of his close relationship with the little one, Ying Wuxia gets a head start and successfully wins the master's heart.

The other peak masters of the cultivation sect: Give us back our junior brother and senior brother!

Then they discover that the useless stepdad they thought was just an ordinary sect disciple isn't a fool at all.

He can soar through the clouds with a single spell, wield a priceless treasure, and gather a crowd of powerful cultivators with a single sentence.

Everyone: Is this really the same useless stepdad?

Couple: Ying Wuxia x Xuan Lingzhi (he's the master!)

*Before his death, the gong was a powerful cultivator in the modern world and kept some magical treasures on him, so he's at his peak from the start.

*A slightly silly, sweet story about raising a son and finding a husband. Both are sexually inexperienced, and the gong gets to pretend to be weak while hiding his true strength.

*Fans of the gong are welcome! I'll add more as I think of it. Please add this to your collection!