The Way Home (Revising)

Revising the locked chapters...

Lighthearted blurb:

The Qinghe City Criminal Investigation Team is buzzing with rumors that a brilliant star is about to join them: an intern who ranks first in everything, personally recruited by the boss.

Everyone is eagerly awaiting her arrival.

Then a tiny, delicate young woman shows up.

Everyone: That's it?

Intern Xu Nuo: "Meet me at the training ground after work!"

That night, the training ground rang with wails and screams until morning. Passersby thought it was haunted.

Yet Xu Nuo, who outclassed everyone in both marksmanship and hand-to-hand combat, wasn't the least bit smug.

Whenever people asked, she always said, "I still have a lot to work on, and there are plenty of things whose truth I haven't uncovered. I'm just an ordinary person, like all of you."

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As the investigations go deeper, one truth after another comes to light: Xu Nuo's past, the real culprit behind the murders, her baffling dreams, and the painful memories she can barely bear all find their answers.

Everyone: You call that ordinary? Ordinary people don't have such a spectacular life!

And now, a version in the style of Approaching Science (as my best friend put it):

Why is the rookie policewoman plagued by endless nightmares year after year?

Why were a middle-aged man's eyes gouged out in a bar restroom?

Why did a man run naked through the streets in broad daylight?

Who is secretly watching outside the house in the dead of night?

Who is pulling the strings and plotting it all?

Who has forgotten the past and ended up all alone?

Who leapt from a mountaintop?

From the moment she joined the police force, Xu Nuo noticed that the dreams that had haunted her were gradually changing as one case after another unfolded.

It turns out that none of these tragedies happened without a reason.

The world kisses me with pain, but I answer with a song?

Evil takes root everywhere. Where can we find our way home?

Theme: Fighting evil with evil isn't the answer. There is still genuine love in this world.