A Republic-Era Young Master with a Dark Obsession

Possessive, all-consuming love | Republican-era mystery and crime-solving stories | Female lead comes with plenty of caveats

Brazen female coroner vs. violent, obsessive rich young master

One morning, criminal investigation student Xi Shanyou woke up in the Republican era, where she had become an orphan lodging in the attic of an opera house. Forensic resources were scarce in this era, and she spent her days busy at the police station, with hardly anyone she knew.

One of them was Wen Junqing, the young master of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce chairman's family. Unfortunately, he was a terrible person. Despite his handsome face and deep voice, he constantly interfered with her, both officially and in private, and seemed determined to make things "life or death."

Another was an unexpected pen pal: the Dashing Whirlwind Little Tyrant. She had met him only once, briefly. He was a simple-minded, enthusiastic, passionate young college student. Xi Shanyou made time to write to him every week, essentially starting an online romance in the Republican era.

While investigating cases, Xi Shanyou was repeatedly left to die, coerced with threats and temptations, intimidated and blackmailed by Wen Junqing, and even imprisoned in his home for ten whole days. To make her investigations easier, she could only keep up a pleasant act as the obsessive young master's lackey, while cursing him a thousand times over in her letters to her pen pal. Although her pen pal sometimes seemed not to remember the things she wrote about, she still liked him very much. At last, one day, she had saved up enough money and her pen pal had graduated. She decided to ask him whether he wanted to leave Shanghai with her.

The male lead's perspective:

Wen Junqing had always felt the urge to kill Xi Shanyou, until a friend told him that if a woman's mere breathing could affect his emotions, then he must be in love with her.

Loving someone was far harder than killing them. Especially when he saw Xi Shanyou give a fragrant letter to a strange man, smiling like a lovestruck girl in a way she had never smiled at him. He held himself back again and again, contacted the post office to have all her letters sent to him, and began patiently corresponding with her as her pen pal.

One day, the woman told him in a letter that she had feelings for him and was preparing to pack up and leave Shanghai for Beijing. She asked if he would go with her.

What a load of crap, true love. He filled his pistol with bullets, ready to turn that man into a beehive.

Theme: Face difficulties head-on.