Tonight, Don't Startle the Magpies in the Branches

At the turn of the century, a fishing boat ran into trouble in the waters of the Western Pacific. The entire vessel capsized, and no one aboard survived.

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Ten years later, someone pieced together the truth from scattered clues.

He was handsome and dignified, meticulous in his work, gentle and affectionate. His eyes held a peerless, dazzling beauty.

He was terribly fond of vinegar.

He even poured heaps of it into his fried rice.

When he uncovered the truth, he was left in a daze, feeling that his life could be forfeit at any moment.

Keeping quiet could let him live out his days in peace,

but speaking up for justice and being killed for it seemed romantic in its own way.

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After Mu He was murdered, he was also branded with the disgraceful name of "drugged driver."

Those people laid out his cause of death with crystal clarity: high on drugs, he hallucinated, hit and killed a mother and daughter, then crashed into a wall and died.

A storm of abuse followed.

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A few years later, Zhou Chen, a young police officer from Haicheng who bore a passing resemblance to him,

knocked on his front door.

He met his wife, but had come only to investigate what looked like an ordinary traffic accident.

After enduring years of sorrow and hardship, she seemed at last to have glimpsed a ray of light.

- Of course this counts as a story about fighting organized crime and eliminating evil.

- This is my first time writing such a long story.

Theme: Uphold justice