I completely forgot about Reed! I mean I forgot we got her for free and she was sitting at zero friendship in the suitcase. All my other characters have max friendship now.
I added her to the Wilderness, and I’ll need to redo my farming stages! My teams are always Ezio + whoever needs friendship levels.
Why so many names!? 
I finished the first short story, 불빛 없는 밤의 도시, and I think it was a really strange one.
It feels like there was a lot of interesting threads, but none was really fully developed. Maybe it would have been better as a novel? For example, the idea of the zero lights nights was really interesting, and we do follow the different steps of its implementation, but at the same time, the character of Jae-u could have been more developed I felt like. The idea of linking those zero lights nights to crime was also very interesting. But challenges like CCTV being useless, were not really the focus of the short story, event though this had a lot of potential. Similarly, the tensions with the environmental maintenance workers could have been an interesting thread if the story had focused more on that. The end was very good, but also felt strange to me, maybe because we never get to know the characters completely. I feel like this short story could have easily been a novel, because there was so many things going on.
I wanted to study Mika’s voicelines but the audio is not on the cn wiki. So strange! I don’t want to study in-game, so I’ll just read his story for now, in parallel with Prune’s.
Chapter 11 done!
Ding Zeng says that his father Ding Ke quit the police because of the 一三〇 case, not for health reasons as was officially stated. Two months after the case, Chen Tianqiao reported being robbed.
Luo Fei and Mu Jianyun think that Ding Ke quit the police because he was unable to face a case he couldn’t solve. So when he disappeared 10 years earlier, it must be for the same reason. Luo Fei knows that the case in question is the 一。一二 case.
After gathering some more information Luo Fei and Jianyun conclude that Ding Zeng is workaholic who does not seem to have any sentiment and is not interested in building a family. Wu Qiong used to be his student and is in love with him, but he doesn’t seem to realise it or care. He resents his father for neglecting his family for his work, which led to his parents divorce. It’s then plausible that the two haven’t been in contact for 10 years.
Next step is to investigate Chen Tianqiao’s claim following the 1/30 case and see if the 1/12 case was really the reason behind Ding Ke’s disappearance.
可是转念一想，只要是自己选择的人生方式，不管别人怎么看待，对选择者本人来说肯定是最满意的一种吧。你不理解他，他同样还不理解你呢。这个世界本来就是多元的，又何必去妄自揣测别人的生活？
— Mu Jianyun
I had a really scary moment when Weixin Dushu was not working on my e-reader anymore. I was using the mobile app, and it was working just fine until now, but apparently, an automatic update broke it. Solution was to install the 微信读书墨水屏版 directly from ink.qq.com instead of downloading from the app store.
It works now!! And the display looks much better too, menus, comments, everything is more adapted and looks better. It’s really an upgrade compared to the mobile app! 
I read Closet, this short story was really brilliant! I loved it so so much. 
The first short story is really not easy to read, so I’m progressing slowly. I wanted to finish it today, but it’s probably not happening.
Lohen’s story details and kits aren’t updated on the Chinese wiki yet, so I’ll probably won’t start studying them today.
I finally got around to reading Prune’s kit… it’s so hard to read character kits in Chinese, but I decided to really immerse and stop watching guides in English or read anything in English about the characters. So from what I understand, I need to stack attack on her, and ideally, I would like to have her burst up too… There’s also a special mention if the DPS swirls, so I guess she only gets her full value with Varka or DPS Venti? I might just play her a bit in overworld for fun, but I won’t completely build her right now, and I don’t think I could slot her in any of my teams right now.
It’s a shame that Lohen is really not the best choice to farm his boss and his talent domain…
Mu Jianyun tries to persuade Du Mingqiang to stay confined in police quarters instead of roaming freely, but he refuses and says that Luo Fei also doesn’t want it. Mingqiang wants the scoop, and Luo Fei wants two things: use Mingqiang as bait to catch Eumenides, and let Eumenides kill Mingqiang.
Jianyun confronts Luo Fei, accusing him of secretly approving Eumenides’ killings, and even make them possible by not obstructing Eumenides’ operations. Her proof is Deng Hua’s case, she knows Luo Fei suspected Han Hao, but he still let him control the operations, which resulted in Han Hao killing Deng Hua as Eumenides had planned. Luo Fei does not tell Jianyun the real reason why he let Han Hao do what he wanted (we know from vol.1 that Zhibang had planted a fake document on Jianyun to make Deng Hua target her, if Deng Hua had survived, he would have had Jianyun killed, so Luo Fei let Eumenides kill Deng Hua to protect her), and let her believe he secretly agrees Eumenides’ victims deserved to die. He asked her to keep this secret.
Their next step is to find Ding Ke’s son.
I’ve been lazy with reading character stories lately, because I can’t deny that with content in Chinese, I just don’t have the motivation to start reading character stories in-game, with everything else there is to read. It’s really a shame, so I’m going to study character stories from the wiki instead, that way I can paste them to my learning Chinese website and use the dictionary. I don’t know if I’ll have the courage or time to catch up on older characters, but I’m starting with my latest ones: Prune, Lohen and Mika.
