Rose Restricted Zone [Criminal Investigation]

[Sharp-tongued, stubborn, soft-hearted top x beautiful, strong, tragic, flirtatious bottom]

Five years ago, Shi Yu’an was an undercover police officer using the alias Lu Ling, infiltrating the Rose compound. When he returned home, every member of his team had been killed in action except him.

After a year of recuperation, he was assigned to the city’s criminal investigation squad to help investigate a bombing.

Shi Yu’an realized the bombing was only a prelude.

The compound had orchestrated it, and a string of murders was also connected to the Rose compound.

He wanted to escape the darkness, but hell had never let him go.

Shi Yu’an was determined to fight fate. He would uncover the mastermind behind the Rose compound, and find the real culprit who had framed his adoptive mother twenty years ago.

When the truth finally came to light, Shi Yu’an stood before his adoptive mother’s grave, feeling as if it had all been a joke.

*

Xie Chifang, the city bureau’s first deputy captain of criminal investigations, was quite displeased with the newly arrived Shi Yu’an.

He smiled warmly at everyone else. People called him Consultant Shi, a man with a steady temperament and an easygoing nature.

But with Xie Chifang, he was confrontational, smiling with a knife behind his back.

Besides, he couldn’t lift or carry anything, and he couldn’t even hold a gun properly.

Xie Chifang couldn’t understand how someone like him had made it onto the criminal investigation team.

Later, all Xie Chifang needed was a blurry photo and a single pixel to recognize Shi Yu’an: the frail man who walked with a tremble, read people with uncanny insight, helped him solve several cold cases, and was actually somewhat useful.

But the photo wasn’t labeled Shi Yu’an. It was labeled with the name of undercover police officer Lu Ling.

Strangely, wasn’t Lu Ling supposed to have died long ago?

According to the stories, Lu Ling had earned top marks in every category and joined the Special Operations Bureau before he had even graduated.

At nineteen, he infiltrated a pyramid scheme, deprogrammed its employees, and got every one of them to confess and turn themselves in.

At twenty, he went undercover alone for six months, directing special forces to wipe out an overseas illegal trading organization.

At twenty-one, he infiltrated the biggest compound in the ungoverned zone. After rescuing more than two thousand people, he died young at twenty-five. His accomplishments were only revealed after his death.

Xie Chifang looked at Shi Yu’an, who was carrying a cup of warm coffee in the sweltering heat and could barely walk a few steps without getting winded, and fell into deep thought.

He remembered with a pang of jealousy that Shi Yu’an seemed so delicate, but worked as a DM at a bar in private, wearing daring, flamboyant outfits that set the audience screaming.

When he saw Shi Yu’an glare at him, then turn around and smile warmly at everyone else, the jealousy nearly filled the whole room.

“Just as you’d expect from a legendary undercover agent. He really knows how to act.”

1. Both leads are each other’s only partners. Happy ending, with some chapters from the top’s perspective and a substantial romance plot.

2. Entirely fictional setting, no need to fact-check. Episodic stories linked by one main plot.

3. Not a hard-core procedural. It’s a wish-fulfillment story with plenty of melodrama.

Cover character design: Jin Qi. Character card design: XueYusa

Theme: Treasure life, reject temptation, defend our country, and carry on forever.