Many years later, when interviewed by the cover reporter from TIME, Yi Jiayi would recall that distant afternoon when the chief of the Major Crimes Unit took her to see a corpse…
In that moment, she heard the victim’s dying wail, saw the killer’s face clearly, and gained the ability to mentally replay the scene of any crime.
From then on, Hong Kong lost a junior policewoman who spent her workdays sipping tea and gossiping and her evenings dating and wandering the streets—and gained a shining star of the police force who solved every case she touched.
Chief of the Major Crimes Unit: How did you know he was the killer!?
Yi Jiayi: Because it was a rainy night… [800 words of omitted deductive reasoning] And so, there’s only one truth…
The killer shuddered violently. His face changed color. Shocked and speechless, he held out his hands and quietly surrendered.
Yi Jiayi, inwardly: Sorry, I made all of that up.
As the saying goes, an explanation is just a cover-up, and a cover-up is simply a story!
Solving a case is like solving a math problem. Other people work from the given conditions to derive the answer.
She knows the answer directly—and has to make up the entire solution as she goes…
Putting on an act, pretending to be a master detective, bluffing killers… She’ll stop at nothing.
It’s really hard!
In that moment, she heard the victim’s dying wail, saw the killer’s face clearly, and gained the ability to mentally replay the scene of any crime.
From then on, Hong Kong lost a junior policewoman who spent her workdays sipping tea and gossiping and her evenings dating and wandering the streets—and gained a shining star of the police force who solved every case she touched.
Chief of the Major Crimes Unit: How did you know he was the killer!?
Yi Jiayi: Because it was a rainy night… [800 words of omitted deductive reasoning] And so, there’s only one truth…
The killer shuddered violently. His face changed color. Shocked and speechless, he held out his hands and quietly surrendered.
Yi Jiayi, inwardly: Sorry, I made all of that up.
As the saying goes, an explanation is just a cover-up, and a cover-up is simply a story!
Solving a case is like solving a math problem. Other people work from the given conditions to derive the answer.
She knows the answer directly—and has to make up the entire solution as she goes…
Putting on an act, pretending to be a master detective, bluffing killers… She’ll stop at nothing.
It’s really hard!
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