The Mission of a Detective

The Mission of a Detective is the second book in the "Detective Trilogy" by the web author Buxin Tianshang Diao Xianbing, serialized on Zhangyue Culture starting in August 2019, running to about 3.25 million characters and now completed. The protagonist, Ye Jiu, is a true-lineage inheritor of the Su family's taiji and a former hand-to-hand combat instructor in special forces; after transferring to civilian life he becomes a detective. During a stakeout of a suspect, he is struck by lightning and unexpectedly gains twenty years of memories from a parallel timeline, enabling him to foresee the course and outcome of many cases. Relying on his formidable martial skill and a vague grasp of the future, Ye Jiu starts from the daily call-outs of a grassroots police station's detective unit and is drawn successively into cases of concealed mining disasters, murder to silence witnesses, kidnapping and fraud, and organized crime; facing all manner of criminals head-on, he repeatedly cracks major cases and captures key suspects alive, gradually sweeping up the dark forces entrenched in the region. The cases are largely drawn from real-life material; the author researched police stations and detective squads to recreate the working conditions and procedures of frontline officers, while using a "rebirth plus criminal investigation" narrative to portray ordinary detectives' choices, growth and sense of duty, with the main thread always anchored in defending justice. Fast-paced throughout and balancing case progression with ensemble characterization, it is a realistic crime-investigation novel centered on hot-blooded excitement and positive energy.