Mindscape [Crime Investigation]

(Main story complete; extras are being updated. Currently drafting “Winter Begins,” expected to start updating in November.)

Blurb

There have been personnel changes in the Luocheng Criminal Investigation Unit. The new acting captain is a mild-mannered nice guy, but the consultant he specifically requested is no pushover.

Rumor has it that the man came from a special operations unit, then became the provincial Public Security Department's secret weapon in criminal investigations. His background is mysterious and unusual, and at every workplace he came through a special talent recruitment channel. He keeps to himself and is distant from his colleagues. With his cold, world-weary face, people privately call him the lofty flower descended from the provincial department.

But this lofty flower has a name that couldn't be more at odds with his image and status: Li Bao.

New colleagues: “With connections as powerful as Teacher Li's, why doesn't he change his name?”

Later, a rumor makes the rounds: Teacher Li chose the name Li Bao himself when he grew up.

Li Bao has a secret. He once had a perfect boyfriend, kind and handsome. They met on Christmas Eve one year, and his boyfriend rescued him from a chaotic crowd and bought him a cup of steaming milk tea. When nightmares trapped him, his boyfriend would hold him tightly and call his name, rescuing him again and again, just like on that Christmas Eve.

He thought he and his boyfriend would be together forever, but his boyfriend disappeared without his knowledge.

Little by little, he forgot what his boyfriend looked like, but the name remained clear: Yuan Xia.

But when he first shared this secret, the person in front of him wore an expression he couldn't read.

Yuan Xia, who had almost forgotten that name from his past, thought: Hm? We dated?

The current blurb and character names were written on January 11, 2026. I may revise them if I think of something better when I start posting.

Highlights:

This is a crime procedural with episodic cases. The focus is on the cases, with no sweeping main plot, or rather, the main plot is the romance between the leads.

The story mostly follows the bottom's perspective, with some of the top's perspective later on. Overall, the bottom's perspective takes up more of the story.

The leads did not date in middle school or while underage.

Set in a fictional city. All the police officers are on the side of justice.

Theme: You should find yourself a perfect boyfriend