A modern urban crime thriller with mystery and deduction, featuring episodic cases and an overarching plot, two mature women, a strong pairing, and a happy ending.
Couple: Upright head of the criminal investigation team x mysterious psychological counselor
Blurb:
"I saw again under the sun that wickedness was in the place of judgment, and wickedness was in the place of righteousness.
Yu Weitong, all these years I've been thinking about one question: What kind of person becomes a perpetrator, and what kind becomes a victim?
Now I have my answer."
Yu Weitong turned off the radio and took out the cassette. It had been given to her ten years ago by a woman named An Xu.
Thirteen years ago, Ah Hua never imagined her life would intersect with that of a woman named Minver, collide with hers, and finally merge with hers completely., 2018
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Behind Jianglin University's campus district was a counseling office called "Monologue." One private room, one recording, one cassette, each preserving a piece of someone's private life.
The owner, a woman named An Xu, caught the attention of Yu Weitong, head of the criminal investigation team: her hidden past, her mysterious domain, and a memory she had never shared with anyone.
That familiar face, the one that haunted her dreams.
Yu Weitong tentatively called to her, "Minver?"
"I go by An Xu now."
On a lingering, passionate night, in the cramped, dim attic of Monologue, the two women lay together on one bed. In her sleep, An Xu called out, "Ah Hua... Ah Hua...", 2008
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Minver, the owner of the Poppy bar, had an otherworldly air about her, her red dress swaying gracefully as she moved.
She handed over a glass of wine, her gaze dreamy, her manner captivating. "That's not how you drink red wine."
"Then teach me."
"What's your name?"
"Minver. White, fair."
Ah Hua repeated it, murmuring the words against her lips: "Minver, white, fair."
"Someday, I want to open a counseling office. I want to call it... Monologue."
A glass of red wine, a glance, a story.
2005
[Blurb posted on 2023.4.30]
Theme: No one is above the law.
