Chinese Valentine's Day extra
At eight o'clock in the morning, Yu Yan burst through the criminal investigation team's door carrying a chocolate gift box that was half his height, his eyes red and swollen, slamming his fist on the table: "Who sent this?! Confess!"
A card was attached to the ribbon on the gift box:
"To Dr. Fan: Your focus during dissections is more captivating than the starry sky on Qixi Festival."
--anonymous.
Wen Lin leaned over and popped a piece of chocolate into his mouth: "Wow! It's imported liqueur-filled! Brother Fan, if you don't want it, I'll help you... uh!"
Yu Yan grabbed him by the back of the neck: "Spit it out."
Jiang Zhaoyan leaned against the door and added sarcastically, "Do you need me to sponsor a fingerprint scanner, Captain?"
Li Weimian suddenly picked up the card with tweezers and flashed it under the light: "Ultraviolet anti-counterfeiting ink, specially supplied by the Jiang family conglomerate—Deputy Captain Jiang, your paper."
Jiang Zhaoyan: "..."
As soon as Fan Jinci pushed open the door to the forensic room, he was overwhelmed by rose petals that reached up to his ankles.
Yu Yan was squatting beside the dissection table, painstakingly pulling out rose thorns. On the table was a crooked heart-shaped jigsaw puzzle—made entirely of fragments from a human skeleton model.
"Brother Fan!" He held up a piece of patella. "Doesn't it look like the moon?"
Fan Jinci opened the morgue cabinet expressionlessly: "I have three autopsy reports to write today."
"Oh." Yu Yan snuggled up and hugged him from behind, resting his chin on his shoulder. "Then watch the stars with me tonight, or I'll play the recording of you agreeing to date me last year on repeat."
Background audio: Yu Yan: "How about we start dating?"
Fan Jinci: "...Whatever."
Late at night on the rooftop, as Yu Yan spread out a rainproof cloth, Fan Jinci was using binoculars to observe the flashing lights on the roof of the building opposite.
"Three o'clock position, infrared camera." He adjusted the focus with a cold face. "It was installed by Li Weimian."
Yu Yan snatched the binoculars: "Damn! There's also Jiang Zhaoyan's drone!"
Suddenly, the entire criminal investigation building lost power.
Wen Lin shouted through a megaphone downstairs, "Captain! Power grid malfunction! Hurry!! We can't see anything!"
In the darkness, just as Yu Yan's hand touched Fan Jinci's waist, a scalpel was pressed against his throat.
"Wait a minute." Fan Jinci suddenly looked up at the sky. "The handle of the Big Dipper has shifted by 3 degrees."
Yu Yan: "..."
They ended up kissing because Fan Jinci said, "The increase in entropy in the universe is irreversible, and kissing is the only negative entropy behavior."
Situ Jin blushed and handed over a stack of documents: "Professor Fan, this is... this is a bound copy of all your autopsy reports from the past five years..."
He added in a low voice, "I used blood sample chromatography to do the gold foil stamping..."
Li Weimian suddenly appeared from behind the file shelf: "In the dismemberment case in December 2019, you deliberately omitted the data on pelvic effusion—why?"
Situ Jin's face turned deathly pale instantly.
Fan Jinci took the report and glanced at the heart-shaped electrocardiogram on the title page: "Was that my birthday?"
The entire room fell silent.
Yu Yan: "Situ Jin, you..."
Fan Jinci: "He corrected three data points for me."
Later, Yu Yan locked the report in a safe, but lost the key.
At 2 a.m., Wen Lin secretly connected to the police station's public address system:
"Ahem! This is the Criminal Investigation Team's song request station! Deputy Captain Jiang requests 'Love for Sale' for Dr. Li—'You were the one who wanted the autopsy! So be it!'"
Li Weimian's voice cut in: "Wen Lin, do you believe I'll broadcast the video of you in women's clothing live on the entire intranet?"
After a burst of ear-piercing static, Yu Yan's furious roar rang out:
"Fan Jinci! You actually accepted Jiang Zhaoyan's pen behind my back?!"
Fan Jinci's calm voice: "Yes, the tracer has been removed, evidence chain number 19-7."
Suddenly, the same nursery rhyme started playing on all the channels:
"Butterfly, butterfly, flying and flying, brother, does it remind you of someone?"
—Yan Kang's electronic voice.
On the rooftop, Yu Yan suddenly hugged Fan Jinci tightly: "Don't listen!"
Fan Jinci gazed at the starry sky and said softly, "Entropy has stopped."
The Milky Way cascaded down, obscuring all eavesdropping devices and lies.
There were no murders tonight, only deafeningly loud heartbeats.
Easter egg:
The next day, everyone found the following words printed on Li Weimian's coffee cup: "All love is the perfect crime."
Fan Jinci slipped a chocolate into Yu Yan's pocket; the wrapper read, "Next time you use a rose thorn as a dissecting needle, get lost."
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