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Li Shang is clean-cut, handsome, and blessed with an extraordinary memory. He abandons a brilliant future to join the city's tiny Missing Persons Investigation Unit, earning rumors that he's just a parachuted pretty boy.
Until the team sees the truth.
This "useless pastry" solves cases like a god, never fears authority, navigates like a compass, and can take down multiple suspects alone. The "fragile beauty" can outrun criminals through alleys, jump off rooftops, and dislocate a suspect's arm in seconds.
Soon, the whole team worships him.
Only Captain He Lin sees the danger. Li Shang's strength hides old wounds, chronic illness, and a body that has brushed death too many times. A candle-flame beauty holding himself together.
He Lin, once a special ops soldier, lost his memory after a head injury. After joining the unit, he feels an inexplicable pull toward Li Shang. The more he investigates, the more familiar this wounded man feels, and the harder it is to look away.
Forgetting is regret. Remembering is punishment. Somewhere in He Lin's lost memories is a lover he once cherished.
He doesn't remember the birthday dumplings he made for Li Shang, the fridge magnet he picked out overseas, or the warmth they once shared.
Now they circle each other, wanting to hold on yet afraid to lose. Bound by a red thread they can't see but can't escape.
Heraclitus said that a person cannot step into the same river twice. But He Lin will fall in love with the same person once, twice, three times.
Even without memories.
Even across different names and lives.
Even if the chance of finding him is one in ten million, He Lin will trace bones to bring Li Shang home.