Suoshi

TW: Bloodshed, Suicide, Trauma
(Disclaimer: MC has no super powers other than being able to see ghosts, even if the cover may imply otherwise)
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[Excerpt:]

"Come out. I want to talk."

It was a full minute before the ghost decided to walk through the wall and came to stand in the middle of the room, right over her death spot. 

She didn't say anything for the longest of whiles and Xiajun had started to worry that Zhaohui would return, so he decided to initiate conversation.

"Your name is," Xiajun remembered from the file he had read, "Miss Zeng Suyin?"

The ghost nodded and stared wide-eyed at Xiajun. "Y-you can see me?"

Her voice was a hoarse whisper, one that suited the dead.
Xiajun tried to hide the shiver that went down his spine.

"I can. In fact, I may be the only one to do so. My confrere will be back any moment now, so we must get this done with. There are some questions I'd like to ask you," Xiajun said as he pulled a pad and a pen out of his pant pocket. Miss Suyin remained silent.

"First of all," he said as he glanced over the ghost of the woman once, "who killed you?"
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Top Detective Li Xiajun has a secret.
Nobody knows that he can see ghosts.
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Ghosts are poor, lost souls that have yet to gain closure and are roaming the lands in hopes that someone would walk by and grant their living wishes.
That's when detective Li Xiajun enters the scene. Since the day he got his vision, he knew something was wrong. People roamed his world that appeared neither living, nor dead...but nobody except him even noticed. 
Now 26 years old, Li Xiajun is in great demand as China's top Private Detective, yet no one knows that he climbed the steps by aid of none other than the very ghosts of the poor victims he was set to investigate.
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Follow Li Xiajun on his journey and witness how the man with an extraordinary gift solves various, otherwise unexplainable cases of human foulness.

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GHOST DETECTIVE: Li Xiajun

Xiajun had parked his car out on the main street since Qi Lei's house was in a narrower street to park a vehicle in. As he walked out of the street and into the bright Hong Kong sun, he noticed something strange.


"Where the hell is my car...?" he muttered, looking around. His Bugatti Veyron was missing.


He did a 360 degree take of his surroundings, and was pretty sure he had parked his car right where he stood, but then where was it? Surely, it hadn't been stolen, had it?


As a detective, it was his first instinct to check the site of crime. There was nobody sitting around who could relay any news to him since it was a busy street and not many people sat around idly. And not a single CCTV camera in sight. This meant he had to rely on his only other option. Nearby, he saw a small ghost of a child sitting in the middle of the crosswalk with not a care in the world.


Quickly, Xiajun waited for the street light to turn red and then hurried over to the translucent blue figure, who looked at him with wary.


"Hey. Hey, kid," Xiajun hissed, kneeling down. "Kid, did you see anyone mess with a black car over there?"


The kid narrowed his eyes. "Are you talking to me?"


Xiajun nodded before checking the street light. Still red. He knew he looked daft to all the car drivers who stopped before the crosswalk, kneeling in the middle of the road like that. But he had no other choice.


"Yeah. Hurry up and tell me if someone took my car from over there."


The boy chuckled, amused, clearly oblivious of Xiajun's impatience. "You can see me? Isn't it scary? What do I look like from your perspective? Human? Or like those weird ghosts with a white sheet over their heads?"


The boy grimaced. "So I look just like a normal child? That's not very exciting."


Xiajun sighed and quickly hopped out of the way for the cars to pass as the street light turned green again. He waited for the light to change colors again before going up to the boy again who refused to move from his spot in the middle of the road.


"Oi!" Xiajun hissed. "Just tell me if someone took my car, you little sh*t."


"Now that isn't very nice," the boy mumbled, looking up at the tired detective. "But I will tell you since I'm a nice person. I saw three kids pick the lock and drive off with that stylish black Bugatti. It was really fun to watch, haha."


"SH*t!" Xiajun hissed, kicking the air. "Which direction did they drive to?"


Xiajun nodded. "Thanks, kid." And he started running.


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