When a new book becomes a big hit, I was terrified and couldn't sleep the first time. The second time, I was encouraged and happy. The third time, I was confident and calm.

The fourth time... I was too lazy to read it.

After the book sold over a million copies, Jian Jing no longer looked at the sales volume. She only occasionally glanced at the reviews to see the readers' feedback.

Most of them were positive.

"From "Sleepwalker", we can see that Jian Jing's creation is becoming more mature: the tricks, narrative style, and emotional psychology are very balanced, and each item can reach more than 8 points. I believe that as long as she continues to write, she will definitely be on the list of mystery literature history."

"I like Jian Jing! Some mystery works have first-class tricks but poor narratives, and you can't wait to see the mystery and give up, but Jian Jing's works can't be stopped once you read them! To be honest, it is more important than anything else to have a good novel."

"What moved me most in the new work is the delicate emotional description. They are both teenagers. "Hide and Seek" made me depressed, but "Sleepwalker" is much more vivid. Hahaha, I bet 50 cents that there will be emotional drama in the back, childhood sweethearts are better!"

"Ah, immature and hazy boys and girls. I thought it was a youth love story in the first 10 pages, but I was immediately slapped in the face in the latter part. Does Teacher Jian really insist on writing mystery and murder and not consider writing romance?"

"I have to praise Jian Jing's outline. The length of the case is just right, but it is not too short to cause many loopholes, and it is not too long to be tiring to read. The tricks are not particularly complicated and showy, but quite ingenious and eye-opening. He is really mature in his creation, and it is worth it to get into it."

"Jian Jing writes better and better!"

"Steady performance, worth starting."

There are also more picky readers.

"As a veteran mystery reader, I am still a little disappointed. Although "Sleepwalking Girl" does not have too many logical errors, it lacks thrilling and gorgeous tricks. I don't have the feeling of gasping after reading it. It's 4 stars. I feel it's still a little short of 5 stars."

"There is no obvious improvement, nor is there any regression. It's just average."

"It's okay. It can become a bestseller, but it's still a long way from being a classic."

Of course, no matter how good a work is, there will always be readers who don't like it. This part is unavoidable.

"The youth pain literature that complains without reason is just covered with the cloak of reasoning, which makes it look high-end, but it is still bullshit."

"It is lackluster and not good to read at all."

"I gave up after reading 3 pages."

...

All in all, the response is not bad, and the rating on Bookworm.com is stable between 8.5-8.9. On

this day, Jian Jing packed new books at home and prepared to send them by express delivery.

The book that he promised to give to Jiang Baiyan just came out of the printing factory three days ago, and he took the initiative to pick it up. He was so excessive that he published his review before the sale (rainbow fart), which made Jian Jing's fans scold him for showing off.

She still had to pack and send out the others.

For example, Leo, Fina, Kojima Wataru, Doreen, all over the world, and there are also many in China. They need to be sent to Zuo Xin, Liang Yi, Zhu Yanan, as well as the closely related screenwriter Xu, director Huang, director Ding, etc.

In the past, this job was done by Kang Mucheng (assigned to the secretary), but now she has made a lot of random friends, so of course she has to do it herself.

By the way, I didn’t forget Ji Yunyun.

She went to the capital to study at university and didn’t come back on New Year’s Day, missing the first release of the new year, but Jian Jing promised to send her a hardcover signed copy as a thank you for her help.

Jian Jing: [Yunyun, should the book be sent to your school or home? ]

Ji Yunyun: [Thank you, Teacher Jian. I have already bought the paperback edition and have finished reading it. I want to keep the one you gave me]

Ji Yunyun: [No one is collecting the express mail at home and the security guard will leave it in a mess. Can you give it to my brother?]

Jian Jing: [...Okay]

Ji Yunyun: [Thank you.JPG]

However, Jian Jing did not want to look for someone again.

This had happened several times before, so she directly dialed the phone and decided to let Ji Feng come and get it himself. It took a while

for the call to get through.

"Teacher Jian, is there something wrong?" he asked.

Jian Jing: "Will your phone explode if I call you for nothing?"

Ji Feng: "...I didn't provoke you."

"When are you free? Come and get Yunyun's book. She is worried about sending it by express mail." She was lazy and said nonsense.

Ji Feng said, "Tsk, tell her to come get it during the holiday, I don't have time."

Jian Jing narrowed her eyes.

"Anything else? If not, I'll hang up." He asked.

Jian Jing: "You don't want the money anymore?"

Ji Feng paused, and after a moment, he seemed to walk to a secluded place and said, "I'm not in Heping City."

He finally said something human, and Jian Jing decided to chat for a while: "Where did you go?"

"Quite far away." He said, "I watched your award ceremony, everything is fine, right?"

Jian Jing: "Hmm."

There was a celebration party after the award ceremony, and director Ma Lun asked her indirectly if she knew anything and why she stayed in Korea.

She said that 3Q Group was after the champion of "The King of Reasoning".

"They kept saying that the victory should belong to South Korea, and I stole their fruits." Jian Jing pretended to be confused, her words unable to hide her anger, "I obviously won by my own strength, but they insisted on accusing me of cheating, so I asked them to find someone to confront, and they couldn't find anyone, so they had to let me go."

Then she turned the tables and asked Ma Lun: "Why did the victory belong to South Korea? Did you reach a consensus?"

Ma Lun felt guilty and ended the topic with a few random excuses.

"Don't go to South Korea in the next two years." Ji Feng said, "You should also be careful, compared to the vicious criminals, this kind of thing is more difficult to deal with."

Jian Jing was very surprised and couldn't help but glance at the communication interface.

Yes, it was Ji Feng, not President Kang.

"Did you take the wrong medicine?"

"I didn't eat." He said, "Hang up, you don't have to pay me back, I'm not that stingy."

Then, before Jian Jing could respond, there was only a busy tone on the other end.

To be honest, at this moment, she felt a sense of uneasiness, but the monsoon was too irritating and made people very unhappy, so she didn't think about it carefully.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Ji Yunyun called and said, "Teacher Jian, do you know where my brother went?"

Jian Jing: "I don't know."

"I called him, but I couldn't get through for two days." The younger sister was very worried, "I don't know his colleague's phone number, do you have it?"

Jian Jing gave her Lao Gao's phone number.

Half an hour later, Ji Yunyun called again and said, "Officer Gao said my brother went on a business trip. It seems that the place he went to is very remote and there may be no signal."

She was embarrassed: "Sorry, Teacher Jian, I disturbed you."

"It's okay, it's okay, I don't blame you." Jian Jing quickly comforted her.

Ji Yunyun still thanked him several times before hanging up the phone.

Jian Jing immediately called Lao Gao.

"Hey, Teacher Jian?" Lao Gao's voice was as generous as ever. "What's the matter? Did you encounter a case or find a body?"

Jian Jing went straight to the point: "Where's Ji Feng?"

"He went on a business trip." Lao Gao pretended to complain, "He didn't tell you? Oh, this guy is getting more and more outrageous, I'll tell him later."

She said, "On January 3, you posted a photo of you and your daughter going to Disneyland on your circle of friends. He was out that day. Are you two not working together?"

Lao Gao: "Yes, I can't leave. Of course, unmarried people go on business trips."

"Officer Gao, I'm not qualified to ask you to give me an explanation." Jian Jing said, "But we are friends, aren't you afraid that he will get into trouble?"

Lao Gao laughed: "When is our line of work not dangerous?"

Jian Jing: "Then I'll check it myself."

The breathing on the other end suddenly stagnated. After a while, Lao Gao said: "Actually, I didn't get through to him, but I don't know where he is."

Jian Jing said: "What is he investigating?"

Lao Gao: "I don't know, he didn't tell me anything."

"Got it."

Jian Jing hung up the phone, thought for a while and decided to go out. She put on her tweed coat, scarf and hat, and drove to the police station.

Lao Gao was there, and he was extremely nervous when he saw her coming: "Teacher Jian, I really can't tell you."

"I'm here to get something." Jian Jing said, "I left something here with you before, didn't throw it away?"

Lao Gao suddenly remembered that it was a nightclub case. At that time, Jian Jing waited for the suspect to speak, and watched them record their statements here. She brought a lot of things, but in the end she didn't take them away, and threw them all on Ji Feng's desk.

He hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, yes, you can do whatever you want."

Jian Jing began to rummage through Ji Feng's desk.

It was a common desk, with cheap and ordinary chairs, and most of the things on the desk were blue folders. The computer was a little old.

Lao Gao whispered, "Don't look at work-related things randomly, and he definitely didn't put them here."

Jian Jing responded with a snort and opened the drawer.

The first layer contained stationery such as pens, clips, and draft papers, some snacks, biscuits, sausages, instant noodles, instant coffee, sugar, and cigarettes.

The second layer was a box with a pink heart. At first glance, it looked like a gift from a girl. On the side of the box was written "May you live happily ever after." It was actually a wedding candy box, probably given by a colleague. When she

opened it, she found the things she had left behind, a fancy pen, a notepad, a de-stressing toy, and a shiny hair tie that seemed to be hers, but she had no idea what it was.

In the cabinet on the lower layer were a blanket and a coat.

Jian Jing sat down in the chair, stared at the box for a while, and suddenly picked up a de-stressing toy.

This is a puzzle toy she bought. It is a smooth wooden box with gaps visible, but it cannot be opened no matter how it is rotated or pulled out.

She shook the box next to her ear and listened to the steel balls inside turning, three circles to the left, three circles to the right, shook it downwards, heard a slight sound of falling, and slammed the upper layer.

"Plop", the wooden box fell off, revealing the inner box embedded inside.

The box should have been empty, but now, a key was lying there, as if it had been waiting for a long time.

Jian Jing picked up the broken key and gritted her teeth.

"I must kill you." She pushed the chair away and turned away.

Lao Gao, who was watching: "..."

Xiao Li was puzzled: "Uncle Gao, why is Brother Ji so depressed?"

"Alas." Lao Gao sighed in a complicated tone, "You are still young and don't understand."

A light snow fell from the sky.

Jian Jing sat in the car with the heater on, thinking: Ji Feng left her a key, where would the lock be?

Not at home, he was afraid that Ji Yunyun would be dragged into it, and he would definitely not put sensitive things there. But other places...he didn't have any places he liked to go.

Jian Jing frowned.

She realized that although she had known Ji Feng for several years, he rarely showed his true self.

This is too strange, the police are also human.

Lao Gao likes to show off his daughter, and he always forwards some home cooking recipes in his circle of friends. Liang Yi loves playing games and shopping, and sometimes forwards the coupons she shares to the group just to get a three-yuan red envelope.

Ji Feng's circle of friends... only has police notices and press releases, which are obviously the task indicators of the police station.

He doesn't seem to have any hobbies.

After thinking for a long time, Jian Jing called Zhu Yanan.

Zhu Yanan: "Teacher Jian?"

"Yanan, are you and Ji Feng high school classmates?" She got straight to the point.

"Yeah, what's the matter?" Zhu Yanan joked, "Do you want me to sell you some of his stuff?"

Jian Jing said, "What shift are you on?"

"One shift." Zhu Yanan was surprised, "Why are you asking this?"

"Something." She was vague, "Is it convenient for us to have dinner together today?"

Zhu Yanan looked at the work at hand and said cheerfully, "Sure, you choose a place, and I'll come over after work."