The Great Detective's Beautiful Assistant

*Pre-release: Please add Meet Your High School Teacher on a Blind Date to your reading list~

[Complete] [Blurb]

Autumn's chill seeped through the air in Wudong City, and two events stirred the whole city:

First, at the coming-of-age ceremony for the chief justice's only daughter, the crystal chandelier shaped like a set of scales, bearing the hopes of countless citizens and symbolizing justice, came crashing down. The chief justice died on the spot.

Second, Gu Luanhui, the great detective assigned to the case, acquired a new assistant, beautiful enough to make frost-covered leaves pale in comparison.

Gu Luanhui, a detective from a wealthy family who returned from studying abroad, was as proud as a lonely pine on a frozen peak, and so sharp-tongued he could leave anyone speechless.

When he took on the chief justice's cold case, the whole city waited to see whether he would rise like a phoenix or end in disgrace. Instead, he turned around and took a poor student under his wing, leaving everyone dumbfounded.

The poor student was named Qi Fa. His background was humble, and he was unknown to everyone, but he had a face capable of captivating the world.

When he didn't smile, he was as cold as autumn frost covering a ridge, his eyes and brows full of aloof pride. Restrained, proper, and cool, he kept everyone at just the right distance.

But when he smiled, it was like the autumn sun breaking through the mist, the vivid color of frost-kissed leaves spreading across his eyes and brows, warm enough to melt the cold all around.

During the investigation, the two were almost inseparable.

Gu Luanhui complained every day that Qi Fa was "too weak to hurt a fly" and "only good at making trouble," yet whenever they searched cold alleys at night, he always shielded him, even bringing warm ginger tea right to his lips himself.

Qi Fa seemed obedient and mild, but he was sharp and perceptive. Whenever Gu Luanhui reached a dead end in his reasoning, a casual remark from Qi Fa could wake him right up.

No one knew that the partners who "constantly undercut each other" in public had long been hiding turbulent feelings in private.

Someone saw them in the twilight, in an alley strewn with frost-covered leaves. Gu, the great detective who always looked down on everyone, had pinned his assistant, beautiful as a frost flower, against the wall and kissed him fiercely and urgently.

Qi Fa's eyes grew red and teary from the kiss. He could only suppress his soft, broken whimpers, clutching Gu Luanhui's clothes tightly and whimpering as he gave in.

The cold case remained unsolved, but rumors about the two of them had already spread throughout Wudong City.

[Breaking! Great Detective Gu rents out the city's frost-leaf woods to make his beauty smile!]

[Shocking! The cold and sharp-tongued detective turns tender for his assistant!]

[Everyone's waiting for what happens next! Are these detective partners about to make their relationship official?]

As the truth behind the crystal chandelier came to light through their joint investigation, justice was restored. By then, the autumn winds in Wudong City were already filled with the unique tenderness Great Detective Gu had for his little beauty.

And the wedding that caused a sensation throughout the city eventually confirmed what everyone had guessed: the untouchable beauty had finally bowed to a single frost-covered leaf.

[Self-obsessed, sharp-tongued, arrogant, and obnoxious seme x beautiful uke, restrained and proper, kind to those below him and respectful to those above]

*The seme and uke's names come from the Book of Songs, "Pan Shui": "His banners flutter, and his carriage bells ring out."

*One-on-one, happy ending, both are virgins, sweet story with no angst

*Set in the same universe as:

Everyday Life Studying in France: Zhao Zimu x Fugui

A Few Tales of Bandits and a Young Master: Wei Xia x Tang Xisang

Thirty-Two Love Letters to Mr. Gu: Gu Nanxing x Lin Xia

Investigation Report on Campus Paranormal Events: Zhou Ji x Sheng Suozhi

*Blurb for Meet Your High School Teacher on a Blind Date:

[01]

After his family hounded him to get married every day, Liu Chanyuan had no choice but to enter the graveyard of blind dates.

But he never expected that his very first blind date would be his own high school homeroom teacher.

Liu Chanyuan: What a coincidence, Teacher. Nobody wants you either?

Xi Wang: ...

Liu Chanyuan: Teacher, you're not doing so well, are you? You're such a catch in the dating market, yet you still can't find a spouse.

Xi Wang: ...

Liu Chanyuan: I'm different. There are loads of people lining up to marry me!

Xi Wang: Get out and stand in the hall!

Liu Chanyuan: ...

Liu Chanyuan obediently went outside and stood in the hall.

[02]

After his nephew's school called in the parents, Liu Chanyuan became the cheap nephew's cheap dad.

But the person who called him in was someone he'd just met.

Liu Chanyuan: What a coincidence, Teacher.

Xi Wang: Why is it you again?

Liu Chanyuan: What's wrong with my nephew? Fighting? No big deal. A puppy-love relationship? Worth rewarding. Making the teacher angry? That means he isn't afraid of authority.

Xi Wang: Your nephew wrote an essay titled "After Becoming a Darling in a Group-Pampering Story, I Match Wits with the Villainous Uncle."

Liu Chanyuan: ???

Liu Chanyuan grabbed his nephew and gave him a beating.

[03]

Thanks to a certain nephew who wished to remain anonymous, Liu Chanyuan and Xi Wang began a life of calling in parents and being called in as parents.

Afterward, a certain Mr. Xi, who wished to remain anonymous, said he really had no idea how he had survived teaching two little terrors every day.

Liu Chanyuan: Teacher, what are you talking about?

Xi Wang: I'm not your teacher!

CP: A seme whose mental state is wonderful every day x a gorgeous, sharp-tongued uke who'd love to tear the roof off

*The seme and uke's names come from the Songs of Chu, "Lady of the Xiang River": "In a daze, I gaze into the distance, watching the flowing water ripple by."

Theme: Believe in yourself and keep moving forward