A Mirror Unclouded by Dust

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[The flashy blurb]

On the third day after transferring schools, the new track-and-field student plucked the dazzling heartthrob of First High right out of the ground, in front of everyone!

Mo Buran wasn't leaping over a bar, but over the distance between himself and Lu Yuanhan's gaze, which had caught sight of him once and could never look away again!

Mo Buran wasn't clearing a hurdle, but Lu Yuanhan's straight-guy line, which he'd faithfully held for eighteen years!

Jiang Haoyue's biting verdict: "You dumbass, you came out of the closet when you were young and clueless, and paid a huge price for it. Now you can't even raise your flag!"

Ji Sifan ships them first and asks questions later: "I can't even imagine how good this meal is going to be, considering how gorgeous you two are!"

Question o(*^▽^*)┛: What should you say when faced with an irresistible temptation?

Lu Yuanhan, utterly serious: "Those legs are long, straight, and beautiful. The first time I saw them, I wanted to hoist him over my shoulder."

[The respectable blurb ←_←]

Mo Chenshi, a Tsinghua University student and all-around track-and-field athlete, returns to the track after three years away. His manga-like face and long legs make him the center of attention, and no one can match his popularity. But then he is ambushed in secret:

"Enjoy the fountain. It's red."

Just as his legs are about to be crippled, he is saved by Lu Lin, a police detective from the Public Security University, who appears like a deus ex machina. Five minutes later, the hero who saved him turns into a thief out to steal a kiss, tilting his head to press his lips to a streak of bright red blood at the corner of the young man's mouth:

"Long time no see. I've missed you."

Back in time to when they are eighteen, the cool and refined young master Mo Buran bends the straight heart of Lu Yuanhan, a freelance super-sleuth working with the city bureau and a high school senior, with his long legs just three days after transferring schools:

"He took the bait himself. Wouldn't it be a waste not to reel him in and have some fun?"

A gift filled with a young girl's love is switched for a cat's corpse. A dead body appears on school grounds, a lawless place, on a rainy night. Despairing souls, forged by jealousy and resentment, scream in protest:

"The way you look at him... you've never looked at me like that!"

A guitar string at a bar slices through a throat. A vivid red rose blooms between someone's teeth, revealing the soul of a young man buried deep beneath Christmas Eve: a tragedy and a fairy tale.

"I didn't even get to see him one last time! I regret it so much. I'll never see him again!"

The incinerator for the arts entrance exams burns away years of hardship for countless aspiring artists in an instant. If there were a drug that could change your fate, what would you choose?

"I've long understood that life and death are fated and wealth comes from heaven. Isn't breaking through your limits better than dying?"

The vows I made were real, and so was my love for you. You raised my faith from the sea, only for it to be consumed in the great fire on Evernight Island:

"If anything happens to your sister-in-law, I'll chop your precious sweetheart into mincemeat."

Mo Buran, a track-and-field prodigy and high-jump athlete, is possessed by the god of death after transferring to First High and gets swept up in one strange case after another. He appears cool, refined, and unapproachable, but he's actually a master at training dogs who flirts without realizing it.

Lu Yuanhan, a freelance detective with the city bureau, vowed to revive his father and brother's police badge and wipe out the drug cartel after they were killed one after another. He appears rebellious and perceptive, but is actually a devoted, obsessive puppy who can talk himself into anything.

They brave one deadly trial after another. Among a thousand beautiful faces, each only has eyes for one person!

[Reading Guide]

1. A rebellious, unruly detective gong x a refined, cool young master shou

2. Plot in a nutshell: [A married couple team up to solve cases, crack puzzles, and catch criminals x Lovers duel with their eyes, shower each other with affection, make everyone jealous, and fall in love]

3. The opening volume is a rather long prologue. If you're not keen on the sports-related content, you can start with the first case in Volume One, Chapter 13. It won't affect your reading.

4. The main story takes place over five years, from 2018 to 2022. Thank you.

5. "At the end of logic lies not an ideal kingdom of reason and order, but the love I give my life for." This line in the theme statement is quoted from the cover of Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X.

6. This story leans toward classic whodunit mysteries. Each case plants a great many clues early on, and once the pieces are patiently untangled, the logic all comes together in the end.

7. Although the culprit in each case is easy to figure out, please don't spoil it in the comments and ruin the reading experience. Thank you all, and love you!

[Enjoy reading]

Theme: At the end of logic lies not an ideal kingdom of reason and order, but the love I give my life for, the justice I protect with passion, and the righteousness I rebuild with freedom!