Lost Memories | A Liskook Adaptation

Chapter 10: The Suspects

Dawn

Lisa pushes the office door open. The first thing she sees is the man sitting by the window.

Dark grey shirt made of excellent quality. His sleeves are rolled up. revealing his pale yet well-built arms. Half a cigarette is resting on the ashtray with smoke rising from it while he's holding a cup of coffee and reading a newspaper with an impassive gaze.

Lisa knows very well why Jungkook has appeared so early in the morning "Department store sales associate rapist case" dedicated team.

This case is so hard to solve and he's such a legendary detective, so how could the cunning District Chief let the opportunity of having support slip away? Apparently, the District Chief took Bambam with him and visited.

Jungkook's hotel room last night. He invited him, as the "provincial leader", to help with investigating the case.

He raises his head and glances at her as he notices the noise. Those solemn and beautiful eyes continue to penetrate into others' hearts.

Lisa takes her seat.

The room is quiet.

After writing her report for a while, Lisa can't help but raise her head to stare at him. Seeing that he doesn't notice, she scrunches up a piece of paper and throws it at his face.

Jungkook catches it easily without even looking.

He then turns towards her; his eyes are emotionless. He lifts his arm slightly and throws the scrunched up paper away.

Lisa says, "Jungkook. This is my case. I can't say anything about you being here, but everyone knows the rules. The one thing that a case cannot have is too many leaders. We should keep our peace. I don't like others stepping in when I'm solving a case. Do you understand?"

Jungkook glances at her, holds his newspaper back up, and says coldly, "No."

Lisa, "You!"

She says after a while, "What do you want then? I'm talking to you nicely, so why do you have to be so difficult......"

"Criminal psychological reasoning...." Jungkook interrupts her, "is the most useless, naive, and opinionated out of all investigation methods ."

He continues slowly, "Why do 1 have to understand?"

Lisa is struck dumb.

Staring at his cold and impassive eyes, she suddenly realizes.

He's not quarreling with her or trying to take revenge by putting her down.

He really despises or even loathes criminal psychology.

Criminal psychology, as the name implies, uses reasoning in psychology to advance in crime solving. Lisa is able to infer that the suspect lives nearby and is likely to be a factory worker through the use of psychology, and not from real evidence.

Lisa likes criminal psychology; she likes the feeling of conjuring the impossible and being able to veer off track. She's very good at it too. Every time she observes the scene of the crime, the descriptions of the criminal would automatically float into her mind— it seems that her knowledge and skills that she learned from police academy haven't disappeared despite herhaving lost her memory.

But in the current police forces of China, not many of them accept or emphasize on criminal psychology. Some veteran officers even reject or dislike it feeling that psychology is too abstract and is not dependable.

Lisa never thought that a young and well-known legendary investigator such as Jungkook would actually be so conservative and close-minded.

She remains silent for a second, and then suddenly stands up.