Shen Xin used to watch all sorts of crime dramas. He'd always thought cold cases involved peerlessly clever killers who meticulously plotted and designed their crimes, running circles around the police.
Even if the police found some evidence, they couldn't connect the dots. With insufficient evidence, there was nothing they could do to the killer.
Then there were the shows that focused specifically on cold cases, where there was a pile of witness testimony and physical evidence, but they were just missing a protagonist to tie all the clues together and find the killer.
But after actually going through these case files, Shen Xin discovered that wasn't how it was at all.
His most immediate takeaway was that TV shows had to be logical. Reality, however, was just as Chen Chao had said: completely devoid of logic.
Take this one, for example.
