Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

"Bury you?"

Upon hearing those two words, Bai Lian reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, instantly bristling with anger.

She suddenly raised her head, and for the first time, a mixture of grievance, anger, and extreme sadness appeared in her previously empty eyes.

"I'm not burying you! I'm burying you together with me!"

She screamed, her voice as piercing as a midnight owl, "Aze is so lonely down there! I want to bury all your things... your photos, the water bottles you drank from, to keep him company! That way, you'll be one person! You can be together forever!"

These shocking remarks left everyone present completely dumbfounded.

Zhao Tiezhu dropped the riot shield in his hand with a clatter, hitting his own foot without him even noticing.

Inside the command vehicle, Su Xiaoxiao's mouth was agape, wide enough to fit an egg, and potato chips were scattered all over the floor.

Joint burial?

To have a living person's "surroundings" buried with a dead person?

What kind of insidious operation is this?

"But...but..."

As Bai Lian was speaking, she suddenly broke down in tears, her grief so intense and heart-wrenching that it seemed genuine.

"Aze is gone! I just went to dig up his grave to put your pillow in there... but... but it's empty! His urn is gone! Waaaaah... They wouldn't even leave behind the last thing Aze left behind! Why did they do this to him!"

She collapsed to the ground, sobbing, like a child who couldn't find her way home.

However, at this moment, all the police officers present were no longer focused on her touching love story.

It's something else entirely.

Lu Jingyan slowly lowered the Luoyang shovel in his hand.

He stared at Bai Lian, who was crying her heart out on the ground, and remained silent for a full ten seconds. In those usually calm and collected eyes, a complex emotion surfaced—shock, absurdity, and… a hint of excitement as a law enforcer.

"Wait a moment."

Lu Jingyan slowly squatted down, interrupting Bai Lian's sobbing.

His voice was soft, yet it carried an undeniable sense of confirmation.

"You just said...you went to dig up graves?"

"Yes!" Bai Lian sobbed, pulling a phone from her pocket and opening a photo. "Look, this is what I just dug up, there's nothing inside! They stole my Aze!"

The photo shows an excavated grave, its soil freshened, and the inside empty. The background is a cemetery, appearing particularly eerie under the moonlight.

Lu Jingyan looked at the photo, then at Bai Lian's Luoyang shovel, which was still covered in fresh soil.

He took a deep breath.

Then, he stood up and, with an extremely slow and solemn motion, pulled out the familiar silver bracelet, gleaming with a cold metallic luster, from behind his waist.

"Ms. White Lotus".

Lu Jingyan's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached everyone's ears, and also reached Su Xiaoxiao in the command center through the body camera.

"Your stalking and harassment just now would normally only be considered a public order offense, at most resulting in a few days of detention."

"but……"

He walked up to Bai Lian, and with a "click" of his handcuffs on her slender wrists, amidst her bewildered gaze.

"Unauthorized exhumation of another person's grave with the intent to steal or destroy ashes."

Lu Jingyan's voice was as cold as the Siberian wind, each word sounding like a verdict being read.

"According to Article 302 of my country's Criminal Law, this constitutes the crime of stealing or insulting corpses or ashes."

"Those whose circumstances are serious shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years."

"so……"

Lu Jingyan, holding the other end of the handcuffs, lifted the still dazed Bai Lian from the ground, as if he were carrying a kitten that had made a mistake.

"congratulations."

He pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, and a sharp glint flashed behind the lenses.

"Miss Bai, this is no longer 'stand-in literature'."

"This is the Grave Robbers' Chronicles!"

Bai Lian was completely dumbfounded.

She stared blankly at the cold shackles on her wrists, then at Lu Jingyan's face, which was etched with "business as business," her mind completely blank.

Tomb raiding?

She just wanted to be buried with her lover! How did that become grave robbing?

"No... I'm not a grave robber..." she tried to explain.

Whether you're a tomb raider or not is determined by the law, not by your love.

Lu Jingyan gave her no chance. "Take the tools (Luoyang shovel) and the evidence (cell phone) with you. Zhao Tiezhu, back to base."

"yes!"

Zhao Tiezhu suppressed a laugh and quickly put the "murder weapon" and the cell phone into the evidence bag.

He looked at Bai Lian with eyes full of sympathy.

This girl must have had the worst luck imaginable.

For most people, dating is just a waste of money.

She turned her romantic relationships into criminal offenses.

It's still the extremely rare crime of tomb raiding.

……

On the police car.

Bai Lian leaned against the car window, staring blankly at the rapidly receding night view outside.

She couldn't figure it out.

How did things turn out like this?

She just wanted to find her deceased lover and have his "replacement" accompany him.

Isn't this the greatest love in the world?

Why...why would that be illegal?

"Um... officer."

She turned to look at Lu Jingyan sitting beside her, her voice filled with a final hope, "If...if I find Aze's urn and put it back, will...will everything be alright?"

Lu Jingyan was resting with his eyes closed, and upon hearing this, he didn't even bother to lift his eyelids.

"It's too late."

He uttered two words calmly.

"Once a crime has been committed, there is no option to 'withdraw' it."

"but……"

He seemed to remember something, opened his eyes, turned his head, and his deep eyes shone brightly in the darkness.

"If you can provide clues and find the person who stole the urn, you might be considered for 'helping in the investigation'."

"After all, stealing ashes is a serious crime."

Bai Lian's eyes lit up instantly.

"I don't know who stole it! But... but Aze's family knows!"

She grasped at this last straw and said urgently, "They've always opposed us being together! It must be them! They must be the ones hiding Aze!"

"family?"

Lu Jingyan frowned slightly. "He still has family in Jinghai?"

"right!"

Bai Lian nodded vigorously, "He also has a twin brother! He looks exactly like him! But he has a really bad personality! He's a domineering CEO! His name is... his name is..."

She tried hard to recall the name she hated so much.

Lu Jingyan's heart skipped a beat, and an extremely ominous premonition rose within him.

Twin brother?

A domineering CEO?

Still surnamed Gu?

Could it be... such a coincidence?

"Call him Gu Yanchen!"

Bai Lian finally remembered and said through gritted teeth, "It's that president of the Gu Group whom you arrested a while ago!"