Crossing the Line [Crime Investigation]

[A cool, beautiful genius with a chip in his brain, the bottom] x [An all-rounder devoted to one obsession, the loyal top]

Su Zhou, the newly appointed captain of the criminal investigation squad at the Ninghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, met a strange man during an assignment in the field.

Huai Yang, chief consultant for a renowned domestic tech company, had a face so stunning it could make even a crime scene fall silent.

But that wasn't the point.

Besides being unbelievably beautiful, Chief Consultant Huai's brain was a little unusual, too.

Everyone called him an untouchable flower on a high peak, but Su Zhou had seen him crouch in the mud, touch the ground with his fingertips, and announce, "It rained three hours and twenty-seven minutes ago."

He became a legend in the criminal investigation squad: he could reconstruct a building's structure just by walking through its ruins, deduce the path of a flood from a glimpse of water stains, and even make the task force's supercomputer want to borrow his algorithms.

This guy's pretty interesting!

Su Zhou joked, "Consultant Huai, do you have a quantum computer in your head?"

Huai Yang merely raised his eyes, his gaze passing over the cigarette between Su Zhou's fingers. "Captain Su, that's your third pack today. It's bad for you."

Su Zhou didn't know that the figure who always sat alone in the lab late at night was carrying an unspeakable secret in his own flesh and blood. As their paths began to overlap, the stirrings hidden beneath precise calculations would eventually break through every preprogrammed rule...

"Have we met somewhere before?" Su Zhou asked, stopping the man who was about to leave.

Huai Yang paused. The tip of his finger, freed from its glove, lightly touched his temple. "If we had, I would remember it here."

My mind can calculate everything in the world, yet it can't understand the sincere feelings you offer me...

Reader's guide:

Every day, this beautiful consultant turns everything I know upside down.

A preview of an upcoming story

[Arrogant prodigy, capitalist player, shameless to the extreme, top] x [Police force elite, workaholic, hopeless at romance, bottom]

On Lu Zhiye's first day back in the country, he happened to arrive just as the police were arresting drug dealers.

He was tall, long-legged, and had a six-pack, so the panicked criminals grabbed him as a hostage.

Was he scared? Not at all.

He was just stunned by the adorable-looking captain of the criminal investigation squad, who spoke with icy calm: "Let him go and take me instead. Otherwise, I'll cripple his leg, and none of you will get away."

That day, Lu Zhiye complained to his uncle, the police bureau chief. His uncle saw right through him. "He's already married. Don't go messing around!"

There are two kinds of people Lai Rui hates most in this life: people who don't follow the rules, and people who don't know what's good for them.

Lu Zhiye was both, and he was like a piece of adhesive plaster, stuck to him tight.

The "plaster" was pretty handsome, though, and a young founder who radiated laser-like charisma.

But... annoying was annoying.

He was there at crime scenes, he was there at meetings, and even when Lai Rui worked until three in the morning, the guy would stroll into his office just to look at him.

Lai Rui glared at him. "What exactly do you want?"

Young Master Lu answered without a hint of embarrassment. "I want to pursue you."

Lai Rui rolled his eyes. "I'm not gay."

"Funny," Lu Zhiye said with a smile. "I wasn't either."

Then one night, a few months later, he came home after working overtime and found that the "plaster" was already lying in his bed, looking surprisingly self-righteous.

Standing in the bedroom doorway, Lai Rui suddenly felt a little uneasy. "Could it be... no way, right???"

A friendly note: Officer Lai's marriage has a secret behind it. No one's feelings will get hurt~

Theme: Technology should soar through the skies, yet it must also be kept within the confines of a cage.