Reunion

  It was a scorching summer day. Xia Zhu wore a crisp uniform and stood at the office door, her heart full of expectation.

  The first day of entering the police station to start work is always an important turning point in life.

  Xia Zhuo Sheng had a doll-like face, but he didn't smile much. In his polite demeanor, there was always a hint of aloofness. According to the police station's regulations, they were supposed to go to the office and wait for work assignments. The municipal bureau had many subordinate departments, and Xia Zhuo started filling out his volunteer form with the major crimes unit in mind. It was rare for girls to be assigned to the major crimes unit; usually, they would start as clerks to adapt first.

  It was precisely for this reason that when he turned to Xia Zhu's file, the person in charge was taken aback: "You are Xia Zhu?"

  "Hello."

  The person in charge was surnamed Zou, who was indeed the head of the major case group, Zou Muyuan. He looked at Xia Zhu for a while, and his eyes behind his glasses were not very warm, but he didn't make things difficult for him either, nodding slightly: "Xia Zhu, welcome," he handed over a piece of paper and said briefly: "Please go there to report."

  Xia Zhu looked at the note and was stunned immediately, it was clearly an address.

  In my impression, on the first day of reporting for duty, I should be going to a workplace to get familiar with it, but instead I was directly assigned to... a private residence?

  Xia Zhu's doubts settled at the bottom of Zou Mu-Yuan's eyes, who explained: "You are Professor Lin Qing-Zhi's closed-door disciple from G University's Psychology Department."

  That's right, Xia Zhu nodded neatly: "It was me."

  "From now on, just follow him and learn from him," Zou Mianyuan said briefly: "You don't have to come to the police station for roll call, I'll find you if there's anything."

  Xia Zhu grasped the paper tightly and looked up: "Are we considered outsiders?"

  "Off the books?" Zou Muyuan chuckled and looked at the paper with a hint of meaning: "If you call him off the books, he'll probably feel wronged. Consider him a high-level consultant, and you're on the books."

  "Sir, why was I assigned here?" Xia Zhu asked after a moment of silence.

  Zou Mianyuan lost his smile: "You can call me whatever you want, because he specifically wants you," After a slight pause, he pulled out the paper: "His personality is very strange, but he's quite capable, go take a look and you'll know."

  Xia Zhu didn't know what expression he should make, so he just nodded and left the police station that he had arrived at less than half an hour ago.

  The first day of work was really bumpy enough.

  The place written on the note was quite far from here. When Xia Zhu arrived, she was still deeply shocked.

  This was a suburban area of A City, with a small courtyard and a Gothic-style villa with pointed turrets. The iron gate outside the courtyard was thick and heavy, with intricate carvings that were spotless, clearly well-maintained by someone. At this moment, Xia Zhu stood in front of such a gate, comparing it to the paper note in her hand...

  It's just here.

  She composed herself and walked to the door, but before she could knock, a voice came from inside, cold and devoid of warmth.

  "Please come in, the door is not locked."

  Xia Zhu's expression didn't change much, and she replied lightly: "Yes, I'm coming in."

  She carefully closed the door behind her and stepped into the old mansion, just like the beginning of a horror movie. Fortunately, the person inside the door soon appeared, standing silently by the window, leaving only a tall back: "You took 45 minutes and 33 seconds to get here, you should have taken the bus, there was no stop in between, and asked my neighbor about my living habits outside the door, how's it going? Are you satisfied with the new workplace?"

  Xia Zhu's heart skipped a beat, and she looked up.

  The man wore a long, large sweater that looked expensive yet extremely comfortable at first glance. His shoulders were wide and his hands were lightly placed in front of him, his tone was calm and collected, yet very determined.

  Xia Zhu calmed down, stood up straight and said calmly: "You have installed a surveillance camera at the door, so it's not unexpected that you saw me talking to my neighbor. As for my time, I should have confirmed it with Officer Zou."

  "That's right," the man finally turned around, saying lightly: "So I can also tell you that you suffered a psychological trauma when you were young, living alone for a long time. You studied psychology and followed the best criminal psychology professor, which means you have been in close proximity to crime, possibly even directly related."

  The man's tone remained firm, sunlight spilled in from the window and landed squarely on his broad shoulders, his stern eyebrows and eyes thus softened ever so slightly, of course... that was just how it seemed.

  Xia Zhu looked back, and against the light, his appearance was not very clear, but it could be seen that he was born with a good life. A pair of eyes as black as ink, yet with a kind of stubbornness and coolness, his lip corners slightly raised, with an air of confidence or arrogance.

  Even so, it can't be denied that men have a handsome appearance that makes people admire them, and... a personality that makes people want to punch them.

  "This time, Xia Zhuo only raised an eyebrow and didn't refute. She looked at the man for a while, then shifted her gaze back to the things on the table. Finally, she smiled and said: 'You're a solitary person who has searched for a housekeeper several times but still hasn't found one to your liking. The newspapers at your doorstep haven't been picked up in a long time, yet the ones inside are neatly organized. Your life is extremely irregular. Last night, you must have stayed up late reading case files until dawn. There are three cups on the table, and the last cup has half left untouched and gone cold. You slept for less than two hours before getting out of bed again to read materials all day. Judging from your disheveled hair and the handwriting on the desk, it's clear that you just took a nap and were woken up by the phone call. Now, you're in a state of grogginess after waking up.' After pausing for a moment, Xia Zhuo leaned forward slightly, her tone somewhat urgent: 'I have to say, sir, your grogginess has lasted 45 minutes and 33 seconds - that's a bit too long.'"

  The girl's smiling face is quite charming, and the man's heart moves slightly, but his expression remains calm and indifferent.

  He didn't ask Xia Zhu how he knew all this, but nodded slightly and opened his mouth without hesitation: "Very good."

  His tone was devoid of any personal emotions, his slender fingers rummaged through the file bag and pulled out the one belonging to Xia Zhu, then handed over all the other files to Xia Zhu, saying succinctly: "Throw them away."

  "Does it need me to bring back to the police station?"

  "People who are no longer needed will naturally be taken care of by Zou Mianyuan." The man said calmly, without even furrowing his brow.

  Xia Zhu was somewhat uncertain about what tone to use.

  "For future collaboration, you might want to know my name and habits," the man rummaged through the messy coffee table, finally pulling out a piece of paper and handing it over: "It's all here."

  He said this and then seemed to have nothing to do with him, and went upstairs by himself.

  Liu Xiaozhu took over the paper and read it with a glance.

  After a while, Xia Zhu furrowed her brow and looked up at the man going upstairs. She quietly asked: "Are you Mr. Lin Yuanke?"

  "That's right." Lin Yuanqi looked down at Xia Zhu from a high position, and only after a while did he show interest in "oh" with a rising tone.

  "You know me," Lin Yuan said with certainty, his eyes scanning Xia Zhu's face with a hint of scrutiny: "You don't seem to have attended my lectures. I've never liked those dull and uninteresting things, so... why do you know me?"

  Xia Zhu stared at Lin Yuanli for a long time, too many fragments flashed by like fleeting shadows, and finally froze on the moment when the gavel was struck in court.

  Xia Zhu looked up with a calm expression and said, "Once upon a time, your reasoning sent my father to prison."

  Lin Yuanxu looked at Xia Zhu, seemingly trying to dig out a fragment from his own lengthy and complicated memories, but it was obvious that even a genius couldn't remember everything.

  "At that time, you should have been a university student. My father asked for your help, but you said it was my father who killed my mother." Xia Zhu's tone remained calm, as if she were telling a story.

  "I remember," Lin Yuanjue interrupted Xia Zhu's narrative, saying indifferently: "The case of murdering my wife, a life sentence does not surprise me. Is there anything else?"

  Xia Zhu An quietly looked at the person in front of her, Lin Yuan Xi had long shed the green and inexperienced appearance of his youth from memory, many things were like east-flowing water, and could never be returned.

  At this time, he was obviously impatient. He looked at Xia Zhu for a while and nodded: "If there's nothing wrong, I'll go up now. In ten minutes, you need to come up and see some materials."

  His tone was as straightforward and majestic as it had been in those years.

  Xia Zhuo silently suppressed the emotions in her heart, unable to express that it was because of everything that year that she had made up her mind to major in psychology.

  She wanted to use her own hands to protect her family and never be so powerless when things happened.

  At that time, Lin Yuanli said a few words that left a deep impression on Xia Zhu -

  "What are you going to do, a useless father like you?"

  Admit it, Xia Zhu, at that time you were just a helpless little girl who only knew how to cry.

  And Xia Zhuo's goal was to become stronger, strong enough to bring the people he loved under his wings and never again be powerless like that time, only able to cry.

  Lin Yuanxi's time seemed to have been frozen in place.

  It has always been this way, with a poisonous tongue and sharp words, able to see through people's hearts at a glance.

  Xia Zhu suddenly felt that following such a superior might not be bad either.

  The layout of the second floor is similar to that of the first floor, only a bit more empty, as if Lin Yuanqie didn't need any basic necessities for human survival.

  At this time he was standing in front of a wall with a huge whiteboard on which were stuck many photos.

  The photos were a bit gory, and Xia Zhu's eyes flickered away, her brow furrowing slightly. But Lin Yuanke rubbed his hands together and said, "This is the fourth case this month. You're lucky, you've just arrived and already encountered a B-level crime suspect."

  Lucky?

  He turned back, and this time Xia Zhu was certain that he wasn't smiling, but his eyes were full of expectation, almost overflowing.

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  The context of this article is fictional, so it's not domestic, the environment is slightly different, to avoid disputes, so I won't involve investigating the case for now.

  Author's note: New story new atmosphere, background is not purely domestic, avoiding disputes QAQ.

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