Reason for Joining the Force

If the original host truly used money to enter the Lecheng Police Bureau, it would be a bit unsightly.

Lian Chi carefully recalled.

Fortunately.

The original host didn't use someone else's back door, but rather the back door of the heavens.

In 2023, although the police also recruited some graduates who weren't from police academies, the numbers were very small, and most provinces wouldn't recruit new people directly into the criminal investigation team.

So under normal circumstances, if an ordinary person wanted to join the criminal investigation team, they first had to pass the exam for a police academy, study relevant majors, then pass the police exam to join the force, and achieve certain results before being eligible for the criminal investigation team.

But at this time, candidates who didn't graduate from a police academy could even directly register for the criminal investigation team exam.

The Lecheng Police Bureau Criminal Investigation Team was only recruiting three people this year, and the number of applicants was as usual, reaching over 66 people.

According to the regulations of Yang Province, the Lecheng Police Bureau Criminal Investigation Team could select the twelve candidates with the highest written exam scores for the physical fitness test.

The original host's written exam score at that time was fifteenth.

Unexpectedly, among the top twelve candidates, four failed to meet the physical fitness requirements, so the original host was added and eventually passed the physical test, making it to the interview round.

In the interview, the original host achieved fifth place and ultimately ranked sixth in overall performance.

Unexpectedly, the top five candidates all gave up their eligibility for various reasons.

The original host's overall score was higher than the average score of all candidates who made it to the interview round.

Thus, the original host became the only candidate to pass the exam.

Just looking at his luck, it could be said he used the back door of the heavens.

But the people at the Lecheng Police Bureau clearly didn't think so.

Because the Lian family had some money.

Just enough to exceed a small goal.

Therefore, everyone at the Lecheng Police Bureau unanimously believed the original host was able to join because his family secretly bribed the higher-ranking candidates to make them give up.

Additionally, the original host previously had what could be considered a stain.

Although the original host was the eldest son of the Lian family, the reason his parents married was simply because their family backgrounds weren't good and they had reached marriageable age.

Therefore, there wasn't much affection between them.

Not long after the family became well-off, the original host's mother died of illness.

Only two months later, his father married his current successor wife.

A year later, they gave birth to a pair of twin children.

His father's current successor wife was a university teacher and naturally had her own methods for raising stepchildren; the children were raised to be both smart and polite.

Therefore, even though the original host was raised by his paternal grandparents, they, like his father, preferred the twins born to his father and the current successor wife.

Furthermore, under her guidance, his father's business grew more and more, and all the relatives began to lean toward her.

Thus, even if she had no intention of suppressing the original host, countless harsh words were still poured onto him every day.

For example, "In the future, your father's assets will surely belong to your stepmother's two children." "His stepmother doesn't want to suppress him; she completely ignores him. After all, he's just a lump of mud that cannot stick to the wall," "It's not just the stepmother who ignores him; his father never thought of grooming him. Otherwise, why would his father put his two younger siblings in international schools while leaving him in the hometown..."

Therefore, the original host went down the path of rebellion.

Young love, street racing, smoking, drinking, fighting—in six years of middle and high school, he entered the police station seven times... well, six of those were at the Lecheng Police Bureau.

His grades were already poor, and after all that, when he took the college entrance exam, he only scored over 150 points, barely getting into the Lecheng Institute of Biological Science and Technology.

That was why no one at the Lecheng Police Bureau had a good attitude toward the original host, including Zhuang Kangchi, who was assigned as his mentor—the middle-aged man who had just given him a pile of work.

The Lian family originally thought the original host only took the exam for the Lecheng Police Bureau to create an image of a prodigal son returning, to trick money out of his paternal grandfather for his playboy lifestyle.

After all, he had done such things many times before.

Who could have expected that this time, the original host truly had turned around.

And all of this was because a year ago, his first love—the only person he had ever dated, who had stood up for him when he was falsely accused of theft, who had brewed medicine for him when he had a stomachache, who had tirelessly urged him to study hard—that girl had died.

Before she died, she had sent him over thirty messages.

It was just that at that time, he was busy with a "midnight race" and didn't read those messages.

Afterward, she had retracted every single message.

Five minutes later, she jumped.

She jumped from the top floor of the Yangzhou University graduate dormitory.

Her face hit the ground.

Because the original host was the last person to contact her, the police found him immediately.

When the original host saw her body, he almost didn't recognize her.

Ultimately, the Police Bureau concluded she had slipped and fallen from the dormitory roof due to a failed experiment and having had a bit of alcohol.

Initially, the original host had no doubts about this conclusion.

Until he went to clear out her belongings and found that her roommates almost didn't dare to look him in the eye; they were hesitant in their speech. Later, when all three of her roommates were allowed to stay at the school, he realized something was wrong.

He had tried to find the truth about her death. Initially, he could freely enter and leave Yangzhou University, but in less than a week, the university began implementing a strict access control system. Once, when he tried to sneak in, he was almost taken to the police station by the university guards.

At this point, the original host knew she definitely hadn't just slipped and fallen.

He swore to find the truth of this matter.

But he also knew that with his abilities at that time, he couldn't do it.

So, he spent three months studying to join the Lecheng Police Bureau.

So his mission this time was to find the truth about that girl's death?

But this matter couldn't be rushed.

Lian Chi looked at the large pile of documents in front of him and rubbed his temples.

The most important thing now was to gain a firm footing in the Lecheng Police Bureau.

Thinking of this, he accepted his fate and began reviewing the documents before him.

Unexpectedly, from that afternoon until closing time, he didn't see Zhuang Kangchi again.

He called Zhuang Kangchi twice, but the man didn't pick up.

Later, he learned from others in the office that the Daoxian County Police Bureau had sent a request for assistance, and the captain had sent Zhuang Kangchi there.

It wasn't until three days later that Zhuang Kangchi returned.

When they saw Zhuang Kangchi return, everyone in Office No. 3 of the Case Investigation Team under the Administrative Detachment clapped. "Uncle Zhuang, amazing! You've broken the record again."

"This time it only took you two days to help the Daoxian County Police Bureau crack a murder case they had been investigating for a month without any clues."

Zhuang Kangchi was naturally beaming. "This time was mainly luck. As soon as I got there, I found a clue, followed it, and caught the killer..."

"As usual, tonight, Chen Yishou is hosting a barbecue; it's on me."

Everyone immediately cheered, "Uncle Zhuang is so generous."

"Uncle Zhuang is immortal!"

Only then did Zhuang Kangchi sit back at his desk.

As a result, a second later, someone carrying a thick pile of documents walked toward him. "Teacher Zhuang."

The smile on Zhuang Kangchi's face vanished without a trace.

Because he clearly saw who had arrived.

Lian Chi looked at him and simply said, "These are the records of the cases you asked me to review earlier. I've finished writing the investigation files."

Only then did Zhuang Kangchi remember that he had received the request from Daoxian County and gone there, but had forgotten to notify Lian Zhi.

He also remembered that Lian Zhi had called him several times, but because he was thinking about the case at the time and feared his train of thought would be interrupted, he hadn't picked up and later forgot to call back.

Zhuang Kangchi's expression immediately became a bit awkward. Although he disliked Lian Zhi and thought about teaching him a lesson, hadn't he not decided yet?

The result now... Wait a minute, what did he say back then?

Back then, he told Lian Zhi to look through these records first, and in the afternoon, he would teach him how to write the files.

Zhuang Kangchi asked, "You've finished writing all the files for those cases?"

He opened those files to look—

Accurate descriptions, clear logic... At the very least, he couldn't find any flaws.

In other words, Lian Zhi was now better at writing than he was when he first joined the bureau.

If rounded up, was Lian Zhi trying to show him up on the first day?