In the neon-spilled streets of modern-day Shanghai, Detective Lin Yue has built her reputation on solving the cases nobody else can stomach. Sharp-tongued, stubborn, and impossible to intimidate, Yue moves through the city like she’s permanently at war with it — leather jackets, bruised knuckles, and cigarette smoke trailing behind her at every crime scene. The tabloids call her “the tomboy detective with a death wish.” The department calls her a problem. The internet calls her a fraud the moment rumors spread that she’s transgender.