I Spend Every Day Preventing My Brother from Dying in the Line of Duty [1990s]

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Xu Jiu is sent back to 1996 after someone clubs her over the head.

This year, her deskmate hasn't been murdered by her husband for money, her homeroom teacher hasn't died saving a child from drowning, and Jiang Yanzhi hasn't been killed in the line of duty while investigating her mother's murder.

Given a second life, she still has time to change everything. She will catch the person who killed her mother and Jiang Yanzhi herself.

But there are barely any security cameras in this era, and DNA testing and forensic autopsies are still primitive. Catching a murderer with the "three old standbys" is practically impossible.

No matter. She can always charge in headfirst.

Before long, the criminal police team has a special consultant who hasn't even graduated from high school. Even Jiang Yanzhi, who has always been a force to reckon with, stays by her side and lets her do as she pleases.

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Everyone knows Jiang Yanzhi of the criminal police team can catch criminals with his bare hands and face down his superiors with a cold expression. No one dares to cross him.

Except when it comes to the neighbor girl seven years younger than him. He acts like both her big brother and her father, worrying himself sick, but she never appreciates it. The words she says to him most often are, "Can you stop interfering in my life?"

One day, he goes with his colleagues to No. 1 Middle School to investigate an abandoned infant case. Xu Jiu runs up and throws her arms around him, trembling as she cries.

The whole class is stunned. Jiang Yanzhi freezes in place too, then asks with a cold face, "Who bullied you?"

Jiang Yanzhi realizes something is off about his little sister.

She no longer avoids him or hangs up on him. The way she looks at him is strange, too.

When he investigates a case, she takes the lead. Somehow, she's acquired a whole set of forensic skills. And when she sees him injured, she cries her eyes out.

Jiang Yanzhi panics. "Why are you crying?"

She sniffs and says, "It's nothing. I just think you're really wonderful."

Jiang Yanzhi: ???

Could this girl have been switched with someone else?

Reading Guide:

1. The heroine is reborn; the hero has no memories. He starts falling for her all over again.

2. Equal focus on criminal investigations and romance, with episodic cases alongside an overarching storyline.

3. Tragic ending in her past life, happy ending in this life.

Theme: Pursuing justice and love