Starting a Shitty Life in the City of Happiness

Welcome to the City of Happiness.

In an era when society is governed by the supercomputer World Tree, life is convenient and development is rapid. Home to the Special Abilities Armed Criminal Investigation Group, a force hailed as a god of war, the city has been voted the happiest place to live for ten years in a row.

But after He Jin joined the Criminal Investigation Group, she discovered that everything above was a load of crap.

On her first day at work, her two-meter-thirty, brawny captain gently patted the top of her one-meter-fifty head. "Hey, kiddo, how old are you? Did you get lost looking for your mom?"

He Jin, who had grown up in an orphanage and had no mother: "...Captain, even though I'm about as tall as you are when you squat down, that's still incredibly insulting."

The dashing deputy pulled several pink finger puppets from his trench coat. "Hey, kiddo, let's play house. We can make that person up there the mom."

He Jin: "..."

So the captain hung the deputy from the ceiling.

Even more ridiculous than the captain and deputy were the cases she got after joining, including but not limited to:

A modern-day PhD went mad and took his own head out for a walk. Even Xing Tian couldn't top that level of wildness.

A hugely popular virtual idol livestreamed blowing up a school. What a remarkably healthy state of mind.

Someone who'd looked dead as a doornail the day before came back in perfect health the next day. Even Hua Tuo would have called him Dad.

He Jin raised her middle finger to the sky: Where exactly is the happiness in all this?

System beeped in reply: Of course this is the City of Happiness, because all the unhappy people are dead~

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An innocent, adorable, doted-on little sister + a burly, motherly team captain + a laid-back, sister-obsessed deputy + a beautiful, aloof, silent coroner + a tsundere little brother who assists the coroner

Ensemble cast, no romance * unconventional crime-solving * supernatural battles * chuunibyou * healing, with all five poisons in the mix (not really)

A guide to the story's (not serious) cases:

1. How did this PhD read his own head right off?

2. A high school senior in that state of mind shouldn't be a virtual idol.

3. Not a single living person in this orphanage!

4. The scariest thing is a little-girl-fetishist dressing up as a little girl.

5. Just give that chuunibyou kid a beating and he'll be fine.

Updated 12/06. Original title: The Doted-On Little Sister Solves Cases Against All Odds

I changed the title and blurb because I revised the outline. Bows to all the readers.

I've got over 200,000 words ready. Before the paid chapters, I'll update according to the rankings if I make the list, or every other day if I don't (and if you believe that, you're dreaming). After the paid chapters begin, I'll update three times a week. Rolling around and acting cute, please add it to your favorites, thank you~!

Updated 12/25. Merry Christmas, everyone~

I'm going to reformat the whole story from the beginning and add some blank lines, qwqqq. I hadn't read it in the app before and didn't realize how cramped it looked.

Sorry in advance to all the lovely readers who find that inconvenient. I expect to finish over the next couple of evenings!

Updated 12/27. Formatting's done (rubs neck) (sighs) (struggles helplessly) (questions everything) (whatever, it'll do) (lies flat)

Theme: Live earnestly, work with a positive attitude, and turn the tables against the odds