The Typhoon Night Casebook

[Pure suspense, locked-room mystery in a mountain lodge during a blizzard]

Night falls, and a typhoon sweeps through.

Eleven friends are stranded at a guesthouse on a small island. That night, a murder takes place...

*This is a standalone short story!!

*This short story, completed in 2022, was written while I was preparing an infinite-flow novel. It has no player POV. I recently realized how many words I'd written while sorting through my files, so I decided to post it.

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Upcoming: The Male Lead Insists on Having His Way

Lu Yue has had such an easy life that arrogance is etched into her bones, and other people's lives mean no more to her than ants.

So she only lives to the age of twenty-five.

People say the wicked always get what they deserve.

She agrees. But before she dies, she insists on dragging Xie Shixu, who has risen to the highest ranks of the court at a young age, down into the abyss with her. Even if she's going to die, she'll leave the boldest, darkest mark in the history books.

Who would have thought she'd be reborn?

Is this her chance to turn over a new leaf and become a decent person?

Ha.

No chance.

Glory, wealth, and living life as she pleases: no matter how many times she gets another chance, she has no intention of giving them up.

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Xie Shixu is as cool and distant as a lone moon in the heavens. He has risen to the highest ranks of the court at a young age, and the Imperial Astronomical Bureau has declared him a deity reincarnated.

From childhood, he's been the center of everyone's attention.

But the Imperial Astronomical Bureau only got half of it right:

He's not a deity. He's been forcibly bound to System 120.

System: "See that person?"

Xie Shixu's gaze passes over her indifferently. "Yes. Lu Yue, the daughter of a treacherous minister. She's arrogant and domineering, and she's destined to die a miserable death."

System: "Correct."

System: "And you're the male lead of this world. You have a great love for all people."

Xie Shixu replies coldly, "So?"

System: "So you have to redeem her and reform her, make her turn over a new leaf for your sake."

Xie Shixu: "?"

Xie Shixu: "It's not like I have to be the male lead."

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Later, Xie Shixu not only fails to reform her in the slightest, but starts to feel like he's about to turn evil himself.

Upcoming: I Have a Crime Scene Pass

[The April 6 Sewer Corpse Case: A ten-year-old cold case. Who is lying?]

[Doors open promptly at 22:00 on April 1]

[You're cordially invited to experience a death scene]

When Yin Jing received this crime scene pass, she thought it was some tasteless prank.

That is, until she opened the bathroom door at 22:00.

Upcoming: After Earth's Fall, I Became the Most Wanted Criminal

I'm an attending physician. My patient suffers from severe dissociative identity disorder.

After going through every hardship, I finally secured his discharge papers.

But on the very first day of his freedom, Earth fell.

Monsters ran rampant, civilization collapsed, and the apocalypse descended

Huh?

What was the point of all our efforts, then? ^ ^

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On the thirty-third day after Earth's fall, the global most-wanted list reads:

*K89-1, male. Threat level: ???

*K89-2, male. Threat level: ????

[Warning: The two individuals above are extremely dangerous. They act in close coordination and may be twins. Both obey orders from H34 without question.]

*H34, female. Threat level: 0

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Theme: Upholding justice