Officer Su, Why Aren't You Hiding Today?

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Su Liu is 174 cm tall, with shoulder-length hair. Her parents died when she was fourteen, leaving her to depend on her two-year-old younger brother. She has worked for eight years in the Criminal Investigation Division of the Lin'an Public Security Bureau. She has earned three third-class merits and one second-class merit, and taken part in solving numerous major criminal cases. At only twenty-nine, she has become the youngest head of a criminal investigation division, a department-level cadre, and one of the promising talents the police bureau is investing heavily in. She is upright, but sensitive at heart.

Wen Chuyue is 171 cm tall, with long hair. She is the daughter of the Wen Group's chairman, with a wide range of interests. She graduated from the police academy at twenty-three, ranked first in her class for four years, and spent a year undercover. With top marks in every category, she joined the Criminal Investigation Division of the Lin'an Public Security Bureau. She is also Su Liu's direct junior. She seems gentle on the surface, but is resolute and independent inside.

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The first time Su Liu saw the new girl, a fire seemed to kindle inside her, though she also thought the girl looked delicate and fragile.

But beneath Wen Chuyue's seemingly gentle exterior was a strong core, and time and again she made Su Liu see her in a new light.

As the two clash and get to know each other, Su Liu comes to feel that this junior, Wen, is more mysterious than she seems. Wen Chuyue, meanwhile, discovers that the woman is really just a softhearted police officer who longs to be loved.

Although Wen Chuyue is the daughter of the Wen family, she has a deep interest in law enforcement and has wanted to become a police officer serving the people since childhood.

When eighteen-year-old Wen Chuyue finally reports to the police academy, she hears all sorts of legendary stories about Su Liu. Looking at Su Liu's bold, radiant smile in a photo, standing proudly in her uniform, Wen feels as if her heart has been shot. Yet the little deer that's supposed to be dead keeps racing around inside her chest.

She has always worked hard with Su Liu as her goal. After joining the criminal investigation team, she finally gets the chance to work alongside her. But she discovers that this senior, at least in name, seems to avoid her like the plague and is rather contrary, too.

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At first, the sensitive and perceptive Captain Su dares not face her own feelings. When Wen Chuyue, who is gentle and affectionate, keeps sticking close to her, she can only coldly push her away. The tragedy fifteen years ago, when her father was brutally killed and her mother took her own life, has never stopped haunting her. As she peels back layer after layer of the mystery, she's afraid she won't get to the truth, or be able to protect the people she wants to protect.

Gradually, she realizes that her stubborn denials are only meant to hide the love quietly growing inside her. She admits she's a coward, and doesn't dare face her feelings for Wen Chuyue. But as they grow together, she realizes that loving someone is simply loving them, regardless of romance or society's expectations.

Wen Chuyue discovers that Su Liu is carrying a wound in her heart that cannot heal. Her bright, bold nature, her sense of justice, and her willingness to risk her life are all ways of numbing the wound that keeps reopening. Wen Chuyue aches for Su Liu and pities the way Captain Su torments herself. Later, she repeatedly wraps her delicate yet passionate heart around this poor woman trapped in an icy pool. Because of Wen Chuyue, Su Liu also comes to understand what her fearlessness was for, and discovers that she, too, can be utterly fearless.

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Through one case after another, the two uphold justice and hold fast to their beliefs. They face life and death together, uncover the truth, shatter conspiracies, and finally join hands as a couple.

At first, Su Liu doesn't dare promise anyone a future, leading to plenty of misunderstandings between them. In the middle and later parts, she'll have to go through a long road to win her wife back.

Early on:

Wen Chuyue: Senior, I brought you some chicken soup.

Su Liu: Call me Captain Su.

Wen Chuyue: Captain Su, let me give you some water.

Su Liu: My leg is injured, not my hand.

Later on:

Su Liu: A Yue, please open the door, okay? Your wife is freezing to death out here.

Wen Chuyue: Please keep it down. Don't disturb my sleep.

(The younger one doesn't call her "Sis," and has a bit of a wild streak! See how the sly, adorably contradictory junior charms her police-officer senior.)

Theme: Stand by justice and face your heart