My other ongoing time-bending mystery, The Sullen Sentinel Stares from Afar, is described at the end. Give it a try if you're interested!
Wen Yi never expected that on the very day she set out on a training journey, she'd become the only survivor at a crime scene.
Bad news: She was a suspect.
Worse news: A stone-faced officer was pointing a gun at her.
Wen Yi protested desperately, "It's a misunderstanding! I really didn't do it!"
Gu Yifeng gave her a cold look. "She's a suspect. Take her away."
The next second, cold handcuffs snapped around her wrists.
Wen Yi's heart sank. Great, he's the uncompromising type.
In the interrogation room, she was putting on an act of helpless vulnerability when they discovered that she was actually a person with special abilities.
"Under the Special Ability User Regulations, I'll be supervising you around the clock until the case is solved." Gu Yifeng slid an agreement toward her. "You can object, but this is official procedure. Sign it."
"Sure, sure." She played along, sneering inwardly: You want to keep me here? Let's see if you can.
Day 1
She was plotting her escape route, but he took her to a private restaurant renowned across the city.
Wen Yi petulantly ordered a whole table's worth of food and deliberately asked, "Don't you like eating?"
"If you like it, I won't dislike it." He smiled and picked up his chopsticks, quietly noting her tastes.
Day 2
She overused her ability and got a slight nosebleed. He reacted as if the sky were falling.
"We're going to the hospital!" Gu Yifeng's voice was taut.
"No, no! I'm scared!" She grasped his hand, eyes reddening. "Please, okay?"
"...All right, all right. Don't tilt your head back." He gently wiped the blood away, a look of concern and fear in his eyes that she couldn't understand.
Day 3
She used her ability to look back into the past, then told Gu Yifeng the crucial clues she'd uncovered. He wasn't surprised and didn't ask any questions.
Wen Yi was a little taken aback. "You're...not going to verify it?"
"In this world, I only believe in evidence..." His gaze was gentle and firm. "And the answers you give me."
A stone-faced agent who's this easy to deal with? Wen Yi relaxed. Running away should be a piece of cake!
On a stormy night, Gu Yifeng caught her the moment she tried to escape.
At last, he stopped pretending. "Wen Yi, that agreement was never about official procedure." He pulled her into his arms, their fingers interlaced, their breaths mingling. Every word he spoke destroyed another one of her escape routes.
"It was my shamelessly obvious selfish desire."
*
Gu Yifeng is an elite agent with the Investigation Bureau and director of the Special Cases Division. Rumor has it that he's always strictly professional, calm, and restrained.
After hearing this, Wen Yi stayed silent for a full two minutes.
What elite agent? He's just an exhausted office drone who wants to clock out every day!
What strict professionalism? What respectable investigator conducts an investigation from the interrogation room all the way to the bedroom?
#TheAgreementWasFakeHisPossessivenessWasReal
#TheTopAgentIsActuallyAHopelessRomantic
#SheIsHisSuspectAndTheLoveHeHasWaitedYearsFor
#MutualFirstLove #AgeGap #ReverseReunion #GoldenFinger #HappyEnding
[Reading Guide]
1. Not a strong female lead story. Romance is the focus, and the plot serves the relationship.
2. A reverse reunion, with two timelines mixed together.
3. The sci-fi worldbuilding is all made up.
4. This is a sci-fi mystery romance, not a contemporary romance. The age gap changes as the plot unfolds. Please don't criticize if that's not to your taste, thank you!
My other ongoing novel, The Sullen Sentinel Secretly Watches Her, is open for follows. Please add it to your collection if you're interested!
Qin Si is a rare S-rank offensive Guide in the Interstellar Alliance. She can hold her own without a Sentinel's support and is hailed as a genius of the Alliance.
Only Qin Si knows that she's no genius. An angel is secretly protecting her.
At first, she always felt as if there were unseen eyes watching her every move.
She searched high and low, but found nothing, until...
Her distress signal was "accidentally" received by headquarters; a rock falling from the sky "happened" to block a mutant's fatal blow.
Qin Si began to believe that angels really did exist in this world.
It's just that this angel is far too controlling.
The Alliance matched her with a kind, wealthy S-rank Sentinel, and everyone said they were a perfect match.
But just as they were about to hold hands on a date, a flowerpot fell "right on target" and cracked the Sentinel's head. The night before their engagement, he was in a serious car accident, and the wedding was called off.
Qin Si went from relieved, to confused, and finally...a fine chill crept up her spine.
*
Mu Xia is the strongest Sentinel in Alliance history, undefeated as long as he has a weapon in hand. Forced to retire to a White Tower desk job after an injury, he now investigates case files. Everyone laments that such a handsome, gentle warrior has fallen from grace.
Only Mu Xia knows the truth: he's cruel and obsessive, and not a good person at all.
The White Tower is investigating a cold case from half a century ago: an entire squad was wiped out in a contaminated zone. Its leader was the late legendary Guide Qin Si, who was accused of betraying the organization. When the case lands in Mu Xia's hands, he uses a newly invented time-reversal device to observe every moment of Qin Si's life in painstaking detail, searching for proof of betrayal.
On the screen, Qin Si is sharp and formidable in battle, but clumsy in everyday life. She can blow up the kitchen just trying to cook dinner. Mu Xia's fingers twitch, and he uses the device to intervene in the past, turning off the gas for her.
From then on, intervention becomes a habit.
His gaze seeps into every corner of her life as he patiently eliminates every potential threat that comes near her.
When his finger unconsciously traces her face through the screen, Mu Xia finally realizes that in all those days and nights spent watching her, he has already fallen in love with her in a one-sided, almost pathological way.
Mu Xia is caught repeatedly interfering with the past in violation of regulations, and the time-reversal device is about to be shut down permanently.
No longer hiding the obsession in his eyes, he says, "Qin Si didn't betray anyone. She is the only one who can prevent the real catastrophe and break the deadlock."
"How can you prove it?"
"Send me back to the past so I can save her."
Theme: Love is a special force capable of transcending the universe and time.
So they really had sex? I thought the last chapter was about using hands, but this was too fast. The male and female protagonists have only met a few times and have been in contact with each other for a long time. They only kissed once and they hit a home run [question mark]
Fifteen years? Later, it was said that the female protagonist is 22 years old now, so fifteen years ago she was 7 years old, and the male protagonist is already working. How old is she now? [Hold your chin]