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★★★★★ [4.5/5 stars] Seek truth, be kind, long for beauty, and fight against humanity's innate animal nature to the end. This is human nature. This novel is one of the best crime/detective novels I've ever read! It's always so good to read detective cases that involves human psychology. And because I loved the TV series 'Criminal Minds', it's not so surprising that I've fallen in love with this. Especially when all the cases here are interconnected and it all comes back to the MC, Lin Chen. But I gotta say, the fourth arc is my most favorite arc in this novel. It was the heaviest and hardest to read and I know a lot of the readers would agree with me. It was here in this arc where a character was introduced, a character that gave me so much impact throughout the whole series. Song Shengsheng, the toughest, most tenacious soul who didn't deserve the terrible injustice he had experienced. We didn't even get to really 'meet' his character, aside from the version of him in the videos/interviews from the past, but I would absolutely protect this amazing man if I only could. He was so strong that he endured so much all these years without a single person by his side to share his burden. He was a singer and he used his voice for a living but the irony is that he never got his chance to use that voice for help. I remember reading a line from this arc that brought so much negative emotions in me. I literally stopped reading for a few minutes, trembling and I bawled my eyes out just because of that one line, a line that made me realized how horrible he had gone through. "Among these screams, there is a voice that belongs to Song Shengsheng. Li Jingtian mixed Song Shengsheng's screams into his own songs and put them on the world." Just the thought of Song Shengsheng, it's already making me tear up. This arc is just pure heartbreak. In the rooftop scene in the last arc, when Lin Chen was on the verge of mental collapse and Xing Conglian sent a few people to 'cheer him up', I actually thought of Song Shengsheng. If he was there, I'm pretty sure he would be encouraging Lin Chen as well. It was never mentioned but I know Song Shengsheng was so grateful of Lin Chen for discovering the truth. For him, it was never about the his shame and dignity, because he was one of the most selfless person. It was enough for him that Lin Chen dug up the truth. Even now, my heart is so heavy because of this man!! I was born amidst the sky, amidst the scorching sun, I soar in the wind, never going far my dear please don't cry for me ——Song Shengsheng Overall, this is a really worth it read. I recommend this so much. For those who love novels like Mo Du or other crime/detective stories, you really should pick this up. Just beware of a lot of trigger warnings.