A Relentless Pursuit of the Killer [Criminal Investigation]

Updated daily. Comments and saves are welcome! Advance notice for my next novel: Run Toward That Island Two strong leads / unrequited love / childhood friends / rekindled romance / both are each other's first and only Younger, aloof, secretly passionate police detective top x older, openly flirtatious, lively informant bottom Late May in Lin'an was unbearably hot. A torrential downpour ended a week-long heat wave and revealed a mass murder in which an entire family had been wiped out. At the crime scene, police captain Zhao Yixing found half a footprint by the windowsill. He deduced that it had been left by the killer, who had murdered the victims before escaping through the window. After investigating surveillance footage and creating a facial composite, Zhao Yixing identified the owner of the footprint as Shen Linjiang. But Shen had an airtight alibi... After the mass murder came a drug trafficking case, a series of dismemberment murders, a kidnapping... As if fate were at work, every case brought Zhao Yixing and Shen Linjiang together. Then a series of family exterminations from twenty-two years ago resurfaced. At last, Zhao Yixing recognized Shen Linjiang. The man before him began to overlap with the boy from all those years ago... From the top's perspective: Who are you, really? Why do you know so much about me? Why are you always by my side? From the bottom's perspective: I know you better than you know yourself. I've been watching you for more than twenty years. Theme: The truth can never be buried