[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi":3,"chapter-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-1":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in 2014: I Am the King of Criminal Investigation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":18,"prevChapterSlug":19,"totalChapters":20,"novelImage":21},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":12,"translator":16,"content_hash":17},2315857,4529,"Chapter 1","reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-1",1,"\u003Cp>Human joys and sorrows do not connect; for example, right now…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kid, your conditions aren’t suited for this place—you make 3,500 a month and still insist your salary will rise? You’re not losing at the starting line; you’re asleep on it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good personality and cooking skills? Those are decent, but only bonus points. Right now, the most important thing is you need to support yourself first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha, what do I see? You demand the woman earn over 10,000 a month and own a car and house? How dare you write that down?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Songhai City People’s Park.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the nation’s most famous matchmaking corner, it has never let a single matchmaking seeker leave smiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once you arrive here, you don’t need to speak—just look at the old aunts’ eyes and you’ll know your rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single glance from them can pierce through your soul, more powerful than an X-ray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, they’re surrounding a fat man holding a signboard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several old aunts, after reading the content on the signboard, were ready to pounce and tear the man and his sign into pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the fat man wasn’t fazed—he looked perfectly at ease. He tapped the signboard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Auntie, read carefully: if the woman is outstanding, I’ll become a live-in son-in-law—and I don’t even require her to have children. Where else will you find someone as reasonable as me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who are you trying to fool?!” one old aunt shouted, stomping her foot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you don’t have kids, being a live-in son-in-law makes no sense. I can tell you’re trying to mooch off her—your abacus beads are practically flying into my face.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fat man grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth on his round face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I just don’t want to treat my partner as a childbearing tool—how is that mooching? And my bride price is only 180,000—that’s the floor price in Songhai…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait a minute!!” another old aunt glared, eyes bulging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The bride price listed here isn’t you paying?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course not me paying!” the fat man replied confidently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m moving in—why should I pay bride price? The 180,000 is what she gives me—I’ll bring the dowry over.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>????\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dowry?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What dowry?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He has a dowry?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old aunts exchanged glances, momentarily stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainly because they’d never encountered someone so brazenly demanding to be a live-in son-in-law—and who flipped bride price and dowry around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, are you marrying or being married into?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Um… what exactly is your dowry?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old aunts tried to find a shred of humanity left in the fat man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Savings? Or a car?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fat man raised his hand and slapped the signboard hard—“thwack, thwack”—each smack landing squarely on the “3,500” figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look at my salary, then look at my build—do you really think I have savings or a car?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then, what exactly is this dowry of yours?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old aunts no longer cared—they kept asking purely out of morbid curiosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fat man grinned triumphantly and held up two fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One quilt, and an electric scooter—Xinlei brand.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm-hmm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old aunts nodded, waiting for him to continue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after a moment, seeing he had nothing more to say, the nearest aunt couldn’t help asking:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What else?” the fat man shrugged. “I’m barely twenty—I haven’t even splurged yet.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m barely in my twenties; not spending ahead is already good enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief silence, one aunt stared at the fat man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You wrote here that your salary after marriage goes to your wife—does that mean you’re handing it over to yourself?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exactly.” The fat man nodded solemnly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m moving in—I just want a little security, is that too much?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, hearing this, the old aunts snapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They surrounded him, shouting all at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One quilt? You don’t even have a spare set—how do you have the nerve to say that? Don’t you fear sleeping in a moldy mess?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“An electric scooter? Xinlei brand? You’re proud of that? Shameless—do you also have a flashlight as your household appliance?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t have a mirror? Or a toilet? Look at yourself—you’re a pig! You think you can find a woman with good conditions? Are you trying to court the Moon Goddess like Tianpeng Yuan Shuai ? Dream on!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the old aunts grow increasingly harsh, the fat man retorted defiantly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Maybe someone actually likes me this way!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you even mean by ‘like you’?!” the old aunts lost all restraint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These days, who can’t afford pork? I get sick just seeing you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old aunts gave up. Today, they had to teach this fat man a lesson. Politeness?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Politeness was out the window today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, vent their rage—it was too infuriating!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What pork? What pork? Why talk so cruelly?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the fat man was about to retort, his earpiece crackled:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yu Dazhang, stop joking. Suspect spotted—your left, about twenty meters away, moving toward you. Slight deviation from intel: three people, not one.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang, stop joking—the suspect is appearing to your left, about twenty meters away, moving toward you, slightly off from the intel: it’s three people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang almost rolled his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The intel said one suspect—now it was tripled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One against three?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not impossible. When they got close, he could grab any old aunt and hurl her at them—they’d be stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s not impossible—wait until they get closer, grab any old lady and throw her at them; it’ll definitely shock the three suspects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfect plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But reality didn’t allow it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No old aunt could survive that maneuver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morally, it was also unacceptable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throwing old aunts like weapons in a matchmaking corner?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the case ended, how would he write the report?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Instinctively grabbed and tossed…”—his superior would flip the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t Yu Dazhang’s imagination—aside from these old aunts, there were no other weapons in sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were one-on-one, Yu Dazhang was confident he could handle it easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two? A surprise attack might work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three? No way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he moved, the first two would be hit—but the third would react instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the three draw closer, Yu Dazhang gritted his teeth and made a swift decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opportunity won’t wait—take down two first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hope his superior had other plans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the old aunts’ scolding, Yu Dazhang lowered his head, feigning wounded submission, while actually scanning the ground ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When a pair of men’s athletic shoes entered his view, he lifted his head and lunged forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfect timing—he slammed straight into the frontmost youth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang intended a sharp roundhouse kick, but his build limited him—he could only raise his leg to the youth’s knee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He settled for a kick to the shin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With no other choice, he kicked the youth’s shinbone Shunshi .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The youth stumbled and collapsed from the sudden blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang didn’t look back—he knew if the kick landed, the leg was useless. Even crawling would be impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just the pain alone would cripple him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d even held back—full force would’ve broken the shin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the youth could scream, Yu Dazhang lunged at the second man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man reacted quickly—raised his arm instinctively to block Yu Dazhang’s punch—but the force slammed him sideways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could rise, a shadow loomed overhead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it getting cloudy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up—only to see a massive fat man plummeting down on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A muffled thump—he vanished beneath the weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yu Dazhang expected, the third suspect reacted and turned to flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yu Dazhang had anticipated, the third person finally realized what was happening and turned to run.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at his colleague sprinting toward him, Yu Dazhang’s anger made his vision go black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These rookies!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of them are already subdued—what are you here for?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To finish them off?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After him!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang shouted at the approaching rookies, then gritted his teeth and rose to his feet, chasing after the fleeing man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next came Yu Dazhang’s least skilled event… running.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old ladies watched the fat man vanish in a blur, then looked down at the two men lying on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One clutched his calf and screamed in pain; the other rolled his eyes and spat foam…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What happened?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That fat man’s gone mad!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did we drive him mad?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1356,"2026-06-20T14:22:46.062Z","Qwen3-Next 80B","feb003671f98e87acdb798dce58589838c2457f99cca40ea061e8f12a9ccad1c","reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-2",null,763,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-cover.jpg"]