The Crime-Solving Workaholic's Rise Through the Ranks in the 1990S

A new novel in the same genre, Helping Ghosts Solve Their Murders at the Funeral Home, is now underway. Visit the author's profile to read it. Synopsis: Gu Ping'an, a criminal investigation expert worn down by the rat race of the twenty-first century, transmigrates to 1990. Her predecessor was disciplined and sent to a small town. Gu Ping'an thinks that's great. This time, she's decided to live a healthy, leisurely life. But with investigative technology so far behind, this era is a criminal's golden age. How can a crime-fighting detective like her, who hates evil with a passion, just sit by? The entire city's police force is hunting a murderer who slaughtered a family of five! Gu Ping'an points to the surviving family member, who has cried himself unconscious, and says, "You killed them!" Everyone is stunned. The survivor is the head of the family. How could he have killed his own parents and children? But the facts prove Gu Ping'an right. Even with criminal investigation technology a century behind, nothing can stop Gu Ping'an's keen eye. A victim she rescues clings to her and refuses to let go, insisting on repaying her with marriage. A suspect whose name she clears sends her a banner of thanks, then goes so far as to unfurl another one outside the city police bureau. A murderer she arrests is so furious at her few words that he spits blood. Her colleagues can't understand how Gu Ping'an, the laziest, greediest, most pleasure-loving person around, can be so capable. She eats right on time, never stays up late, and occasionally pulls out an apple or a bottle of milk. "See that? That's Gu Ping'an, the disgrace of the city police bureau. She got in trouble and was disciplined, then shipped off to the 'frontier'!" A few days later, she parachutes into the bureau's criminal investigation team. "I heard they borrowed her because they're short on talent. She'll be back to her old ways in no time." A few days later, Gu Ping'an passes the official examination and joins the team permanently. "She's still been disciplined. That's as far as she'll get." Not long after, Gu Ping'an is promoted to team leader. By the time she becomes the head of the major crimes team, everyone has forgotten their earlier sneering remarks. "Captain Gu, please, please take a look at this case for me!" "Captain Gu, help me out. I'm completely stuck!" "Captain Gu, come on, I'll give you all my vacation days and benefits this year. Please interrogate someone for me!" Surrounded by her colleagues, Gu Ping'an leisurely munches on an apple. She suddenly wonders how she's ended up in the rat race again, but then thinks it might not be so bad after all. Coming soon: The Marquis's Eldest Daughter Insists on Becoming a Coroner. Please add it to your collection. Blurb: Gu Ningzhu just graduated and was about to make a name for herself in forensic science when she transmigrated to ancient times. The good news: She became the well-fed, well-dressed eldest daughter of a marquis. The bad news: She has to embroider! She has to get married! The man she's supposed to marry already has two concubines! Gu Ningzhu doesn't want to be a proper wife, and she especially doesn't want to waste her professional knowledge. At dinner, her father's concubine comes crying and complaining that one of her mother's maids beat her. Gu Ningzhu puts down her chopsticks. "The scratches on your face don't add up. The marks on your neck are love bites, deliberately rubbed and pressed. Dear Father, someone's been cheating on you." On a trip to the palace, the emperor takes an interest in Gu Ningzhu. She looks at his leering eyes and says, "You're wearing a mask. You're an impostor, not the emperor!" After the real emperor is rescued, he looks at Gu Ningzhu gratefully. "What do you want? I can give you anything!" The entire court expects Gu Ningzhu to enter the palace, but she says, "I want to be a coroner!" Shock! The marquis's eldest daughter insists on becoming a coroner? A year later, foreign dignitaries arrive to pay their respects. A royal scion from abroad beats someone in the street, then tries to get away with it. The owner of a nearby shop angrily says, "You dare come to Great Yu and beat people? Do you know our empress is a coroner and has trained countless master coroners? Any one of them could expose your crimes!" The foreign royal family is stunned. "An empress can be a coroner? Great Yu is far too progressive!" The shopkeeper sneers. "Barbarians will be barbarians. You don't get it. A coroner became empress!" Coming soon: Becoming a Forensic Doctor in the 1980s. Please add it to your collection. Synopsis: Forensic science student Xu Tian transmigrates to the 1980s after a car accident. Her predecessor was reassigned from clinical medicine to forensic medicine, but never told her family. In this era, hardly any girls study forensic medicine. Her family has always believed she was going to become a doctor. As the eldest child and the family's great hope, when she tells them she's been assigned to work as a forensic doctor at the bureau, the whole family is thrown into chaos. Xu's father: "You studied for all that time just to become a doctor for the dead?" Xu's mother: "When we arranged your engagement, we said you were a doctor. How did that turn into a forensic doctor? What am I supposed to tell the Meng family?" Xu's younger siblings: "What does a forensic doctor do? Do they get snacks at work, like Sister Xiaofeng next door?" Looking at these unfamiliar family members, Xu Tian says earnestly, "Forensic doctors speak for the dead and defend the rights of the living. It's important and noble. Since you don't understand, I'll move out, and I'll break off my engagement with the Meng family too." Before Xu's parents can say anything, her grandparents, who still don't understand what she does for a living, slam their hands on the table. No way! They've just put their granddaughter through college. She hasn't even shown off at the residential compound yet. How can they let her go? Xu's father: "Show off what? We've been showing off that Tian studied medicine, but now she's a forensic doctor. We're lucky if people don't laugh at us." Just as Xu's father predicted, the people in the compound mock them from every direction. As Xu Tian keeps getting promoted and earning more, enjoying all kinds of benefits, the mockery turns into envy and resentment. By the time Xu Tian is named one of the nation's outstanding young people, Xu's father walks around the compound over and over, holding up her certificate. "What's wrong with being a forensic doctor? It's important and noble!" 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