The Ember Cage Smells Strange

Xie Yi | The heroine: 18 years old, from a wealthy family, with a peaceful and demure appearance, a very high IQ, top-notch logical insight, and a yandere personality hidden in her bones. She is born with a supernatural physique and can capture the remnants of the souls of the dead and read the residual thoughts of the scene. She originally had a gentle first love, Jiang Yubai, but was forcibly separated and imprisoned by Feng Yi. He is torn apart by pain in desperate situations, but he always remains sober and rational, and is good at camouflaging his plans and waiting for opportunities to counterattack. Love and hate are sharp, not holy, the pain can be internalized, but it will never collapse easily. In the later period, in the entanglement of life and death, I gradually saw the sincerity of the male protagonist under the paranoid shell, and realized his emotional acceptance. He was not tamed, but actively chose to coexist. Feng Yi | Male protagonist: The leader of a top chaebol. His childhood trauma has created a distorted view of love. His possessiveness is almost pathological, he is decisive in killing, and his methods are strong and cold. He used secular power to force Xie Yi to stay with him. He is ruthless to others, but he has extreme preference and pampering for Xie Yi. If you don't know how to love someone normally and believe in "holding it in the palm of your hand so you won't lose it", you will hurt others and you will risk your life to protect them in your own way. Later on, I was forced to learn to restrain possession and learn to respect the heroine's will. Jiang Yubai | First Love: A clean and gentle boy, who was the light of Xie Yi's worldly significance in the past. He was powerless in the face of power and represented the heroine's lost normal life. World view: On the surface of modern bustling cities are capital, social interaction, and secular order; under the undercurrent, people who have died in vain retain their obsessions, giving rise to a series of mysterious and unsolved cases. Xie Yi's supernatural physique is both a disaster and a unique key to solving the mystery. The book has two parallel lines: the emotional game line between the male and female protagonists + the main line of the urban supernatural unit's investigation.