My Wife Is Scared

Starting at nine in the morning, calls began pouring into the police station, threatening to overwhelm the switchboard. Hundreds of people called to report an armed robbery on Guoqing Road.

A young man armed with an NP29 pistol was holding an older woman hostage at the exit of a department store on Guoqing Road. He was agitated and incoherent, and could snap at any moment.

As soon as he received the news, Old Lin, head of the major crimes unit, rushed to the scene, followed closely by his direct subordinate, Huang Rujin.

The only woman in the major crimes unit, Huang Rujin had, unsurprisingly, become a confirmed spinster at the ripe old age of twenty-eight. The brothers in the unit...