I don't like the way A Qing's lover keeps throwing sex at her, whenever she get's close to figuring something out.
That said, the car scene, with the flower, was FREAKING AMAZING!
Yeah that was a really cool way to do a NSFW scene. Also unusually explicit for a manhua that isn't actually adult. Usually they're either depicting actual sex (extremely explicit) or barely even depicting kissing (sometimes even censoring it). There's pretty rarely an in-between like this.
I actually get the feeling that her adoptive father and lover are trying to protect her (based on the phone call where her lover says she doesn't want to hide things). However, if they're doing what they seem to be doing, they're obstructing an investigation into what appears to be a serial killing purely for the emotional well-being of one person. Well intentioned or not, that's pretty fucked up.
My early gut feeling for "what would be the most awesome plot twist?" is "what if A Qing was the serial killer and didn't know it?". Unfortunately, that doesn't fit since her memory blackout period seems to be only as a child, unless there's some sort of plot device that is forcing small children to kill their own adoptive parents or something.
I do really like how the MC acts in Chapter 5 where she goes through things from the angle of "let's eliminate these possibilities", since it's a common flaw of detectives in fiction to not think about the unusual crimes where say, a child murdered and transported the body of an adult twice their size (and somehow cut the corpse into precise slabs of meat, through bone, with tools that would have had to be industrial grade or way beyond the size she could have ever handled). Okay... maybe I just talked myself out of that possibility making any sense.
A lot of things had to go exactly right for her to pull that off. That takes planning. And help.
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