Romance-Immune

■Next novel: No Secret Crushes at the Investigation Scene

■Completed novels: No Sugary Romance at the Crime Scene, No Romance at the Scene of the Investigation

[The text will be revised after completion. There may be discrepancies between pirated and official versions. I am not responsible for pirated content.]

A forensic doctor who is immune to melodrama and romance (bottom) X a firefighter who is extremely insecure (top)

Years ago, Liang Shangyan responded to a murder scene where an entire family had been killed.

Of the family of five, only the eldest son survived, having been away at cram school.

The next time he saw Xing Jia, the boy had been rescued by the criminal investigation team from a human trafficker's van.

He was different from the boy Liang Shangyan had met years earlier. Now he was covered in injuries and skin and bones, with barely any instinct for survival left in his eyes.

His relatives, who were supposed to be his guardians, were summoned to the police station. In front of all the officers, they berated him, but he sat there quietly the whole time.

Their eyes met. Xing Jia walked over to Liang Shangyan.

Xing Jia: "I don't want to go home with them. They hit me and yell at me. They can't stand me."

Liang Shangyan: "And?"

Xing Jia: "Take me in. I have money."

Even Liang Shangyan couldn't explain why he really did take the boy home.

After that, every so often, he would get an "invitation call" from Xing Jia's teachers.

After leaving the school once again, Liang Shangyan finally lost his patience and pinned him against the wall. "If you fight again, you're out!"

Xing Jia: "You don't want me anymore either?"

Liang Shangyan: ...You messed up, and you still have the nerve to act pitiful?

With the face of an innocent, delicate flower, Xing Jia looked at him with the most pitiful eyes.

Liang Shangyan softened despite himself.

Seeing that he was giving in, Xing Jia pushed his luck and reached out for a hug. "Big brother, I was wrong. Don't abandon me."

Liang Shangyan instinctively tried to back away.

Sensing his intention, Xing Jia locked him in his arms first, as if he wanted to devour him whole, yet spoke obediently: "I'll be good and do as you say. Will you love me?"

In a daze, Liang Shangyan remembered the boy from years ago, clutching a pillow outside his bedroom door on a stormy night, secretly wiping away his tears.

But the price of giving in was that Xing Jia gradually took over every inch of his territory. He was shut in a room and worked over again and again, branded with Xing Jia's mark, until even the word "hug" became a trigger for him.

What delicate flower? He was clearly a dark, unhinged puppy.

Cover art used with permission from Jin Feng Xi Yu, Rycha

Coming soon: No Secret Crushes at the Investigation Scene

Wen Ke is a writer of online mystery novels. His stories are so eerie that readers tear him to shreds, and some have even sent him razor blades.

But no one knows that the stories he writes are based on things that really happened.

He witnessed a murder with his own eyes, but he was so young at the time that no one took him seriously. Even his parents thought he was making things up.

Only he knew that everything he said was true.

They arrested the wrong person for the murder back then.

Years later, he revealed the secret he had kept buried by turning it into a novel. He never expected that one day, the plot he had written would become the exact blueprint for a real case.

The real killer has appeared, murdering people in the same way.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will become one of the victims too. The killer won't spare him.

Because of the "identical" method of killing, Wen Ke becomes a major focus of the police investigation.

Cheng Qiong, former head of the Criminal Investigation Detachment at Pingchuan City Public Security Bureau, is temporarily reassigned to Heping Street Police Station for work reasons, where he happens to join the investigation into the "novel murders."

Cheng Qiong thinks Wen Ke is a strange man. His temper is strange, his personality is strange, and even his fashion sense is strange.

Wen Ke, on the other hand, thinks Cheng Qiong is sick in the head!

From their initial dislike of each other, they gradually realize, as the investigation deepens, that neither of them is entirely incompetent.

Theme: Life is priceless, and the law protects justice.