The Negotiation Expert Transmigrates Into a Book

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At 28, Chu Yanxi is the youngest negotiator on the police force.

Her world is black and white, with the law as her sole measure.

Her first time handling negotiations on her own, she faced Zhang Ya, a desperate housewife who had broken down after her husband cheated and taken his mistress hostage.

Chu Yanxi strictly followed negotiation protocol, calmly analyzed the situation, and tried to use logic to bring Zhang Ya back to her senses. But she failed.

The price of that failure: Chu Yanxi transmigrated into a book.

She found herself inside Cocoon, a nonfiction novel about female criminals, where every story was heartbreaking.

In 1985, college student Qiao Zhaoran was abducted. After four years of inhuman abuse, she poisoned a family of eight. In court, she said only four words: They deserved to die!

In 1992, Chunni, a village woman who had endured years of domestic violence, killed her husband in a desperate attempt to stop him from selling their daughter. But village rules condemned her to be drowned in a pond.

In 1998, Ruan Xiaofen, a laid-off textile mill worker, stole documents from the technical department to pay for her mother's kidney failure treatment. While she was being held for investigation, she learned her mother had died and, in despair, jumped to her death.

Through one transmigration after another, Chu Yanxi gradually came to understand the complexity of human nature.

They were daughters, wives, and mothers, but above all, they were independent souls capable of pain, anger, and indignation. When systems and prejudice trapped them in the shadows, when oppression and indifference pushed them to the brink, tragedy cried out in its most desperate voice through the form of crime.

Only when the light of the law reaches every silent corner, and the vulnerable can find dignity without having to become “criminals,” can we truly redeem this fractured world.

The Lady of Criminal Justice

The day Shen Zhaoyun opened her eyes inside a coffin, Qingyang County was being battered by rain.

The coroner stammered, “Madam... she did indeed die suddenly from a heart condition.”

She gripped her bluish wrist and sneered. “A heart condition? Cyanotic fingernails, palpitations, shortness of breath. This is clearly aconitine poisoning!”

A modern criminal investigation expert transmigrates into the body of a county magistrate's wife who died young in ancient times.

No fine silks, no concubines vying for favor, just a refined, bamboo-like, sickly husband named Pei Zhuo and an ever-growing pile of petitions outside the county office.

Thus begins a new chapter in Qingyang County: the magistrate's wife presiding over court.

Ghostly flames in the ancestral hall, and a murder?

She follows the clues with microexpression psychology, uncovering the secrets behind a family feud.

A bride dies suddenly in her wedding sedan?

She uses modern forensic medicine to find the killer, and a case of mistaken identities between two heiresses rocks the whole city.

A river embankment collapses, burying a body?

She begins criminal profiling, and a long-buried corruption case comes to light.

The county office staff go from slacking off to worshipping her.

“Your Honor, we've found the killer! Can we arrest them now?”

“Not yet.” She draws a clue map on the wall with charcoal. “First, let's find the witness in prison.”

Later, the history books record these emphatic lines:

“During the Jinghe era, Shen Zhaoyun presided over criminal justice for more than ten years and cleared seventy-two wrongful cases. Later generations honored her as the Lady of Criminal Justice.”

No one knew that...

One summer afternoon, she had accepted the chilled tea Pei Zhuo brewed and said calmly, “The censor has impeached Chancellor Pei for allowing a woman to interfere in criminal justice. What do you think?”

Pei Zhuo smiled. “The capable should take the position.”

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Theme: As long as you live, there is hope.