The Ripples

A wedding day that had to be the most special day had turned out to be the opposite for her.When one talked to her naïve self twenty years ago, she would say that wedding was all about a handsome prince, white beautiful lacy dress, flowers, and beautiful rings. She used to dream all of it until she had grown up to the reality where a wedding wasn’t as beautiful as a fairy tale.Tsai Meiying didn’t become a queen of the day just like any brides. All she wore for her wedding day was a plain blazer suit she wore for work. When another couple posing with their marriage certificate feeling merry, bitterness was the only thing she felt when she left the National Household Registration Office with a marriage certificate in her hands.

‘What do you say about crossing the sea?’‘Aye, aye, Captain!’Her laugh joined her father’s. Meiying knew how ridiculous she must be doing that chant at her age but she would gladly follow her father’s game for as long as it made him happy. Ever since she was a kid, her father would call himself Captain Hook while Meiying was a Princess Mermaid. A lot of times, she habitually saluted when replying to her father, inviting ridiculing glances from people around her.‘How’s my Niuniu doing? Have you eaten?’ asked her father’s throaty but cheerful voice on the other side. She rolled her eyes at her father’s endearing name for her. She felt too old to be called with that name.

Seeing a dead body for the first time was never the same experience for anyone. Sometimes, it had the same effect be it, be it new young or old experience police. Due to his job, Huijing had developed emotional resistance to it. Zhixian told him that he became a vegetarian for a year and couldn’t drink red wine for the rest of his life after his first day as a detective because he got mutilated bodies that were stored inside a wine cask for his first case.However, the insensitive detective had forgotten his own experience and brought two new detectives in their department to a Chicken Rice restaurant where they hang boiled and roasted chicken on the display window after their first experience seeing a dead body, resulting in one passed out and another vomited. The body they just discovered wasn’t in a bad state at all compared to terrible cases in the past but the two didn’t se

The faint glow of the moonlight perfectly outlined the broad shoulders of a man in a suit, who was standing right in front of Meiying. The suit alone had brought out his charisma, which shaking the core of her soul. Meiying almost bent her knees, the instant ramification at the sight but luckily, she still had her sanity intact and held tight onto the door handle to hold herself.How could someone look so good in a suit?It should be illegal for him to walk around in that kind of appearance.He should be cuffed and jailed for making her knees weak.For a moment, her eyes were locked with his sharp ones. It was the deepest shade of the richest earth, beautiful and mysterious like the night. So deep a

Throughout her life, Meiying never changed her impression as quickly as she did at that moment. She was downright impressed by his look and she was wrong for that. It went downhill the moment he dropped the ‘good evening’ from the first time and she hated men without manner.As if that heated argument wasn’t enough, one thing happened after another. She had been called smart and genius all the time in her life but she was unashamed to admit that she was too stupid to comprehend what was going on in the last hour.Meiying could no longer see the difference between her life and a joke.Or maybe her life itself was a joke.She joked about a man suddenly appeared on their doorstep