At the year-end, which should have been the busiest time, there weren't many cases, whether because of the clean-up of accumulated cases or the recent crackdown.
Many people found it disorienting; Mrs. Cui spent an entire afternoon cracking sunflower seeds. It wasn't just their forensic department that was quiet—even department one dealt with only simple traffic accidents, and those fatal crashes that resulted in total vehicular destruction and loss of life were rare.
Zhou Ning compressed the completed manuscript into a file and sent it to an editor who replied with an email almost immediately. It consisted of just one sentence, "Proofread the draft as soon as possible and await the good news!"
This was an introduction from Doctor Lu, the editor-in-chief of Qindao Publishing House. After sending it, Zhou Ning exchanged a few words with him on WeChat.