Edward York, the legitimate heir of the Su-style Tai Chi, former unarmed combat instructor of a special operations unit, transferred to the local police as a detective after leaving the military. While staking out a suspect, he was unfortunately struck by lightning and unexpectedly gained twenty years of memories from another parallel universe.

From then on, he embarks on an exciting life as a detective, repeatedly solving major cases, capturing dangerous criminals alive, sweeping away all kinds of criminal forces, striking with an iron fist, and becoming invincible wherever he goes!

Chapter 1: Even Good People Get Struck by Lightning

Edward York felt that although he couldn't claim to be a very good person, at the very least, he couldn't be considered a bad one.

As a detective at the Bajing Police Station in Yangguan District, Ping'an City, Jingjiang Province, even if Edward York wanted to be bad, there was only so much he could do. Besides, he was a former soldier, a demobilized veteran. Strictly speaking, Edward York considered himself a good person.

But still, why would a good person get struck by lightning?

To be honest, Edward York really felt wronged about getting struck by lightning this time.

Here's what happened: it was past nine in the evening, and Edward York should have been off work and resting, but he wasn't. He was hiding at a street corner on a stakeout.

The target was a fugitive wanted by the Jingjiang Provincial Public Security Department.

It was said that this guy would secretly return home soon.

While on the stakeout, it suddenly started pouring rain.

It was the rainy season, and sudden downpours were nothing new to Edward York; he didn't care much.

But damn, there was thunder too!

Fine, let there be thunder, but why did it have to strike Officer York directly?

Was it just because Officer York was leaning against a lamppost?

Was it because Officer York was handsome?

He was tired from the stakeout, so he leaned against the lamppost to rest for a bit, and ended up getting struck by lightning. Is there any justice? Is there any law?

Whether Officer York liked it or not, understood it or not, he got struck by lightning anyway. No matter how strong or young he was, no matter how rigorous his training in the armed police had been, even having won first place in unarmed combat, if you get struck by lightning by accident, you still collapse on the spot.

But to say Officer York was especially bad? Not really.

After being struck by lightning, he didn't die. He just felt his whole body stiffen, his head splitting with pain, flashes of light before his eyes, as if countless images were being forcibly crammed into his mind.

It felt like someone else's memories were being forcibly embedded into his brain.

Edward York couldn't describe the feeling.

In short, it was very painful, but also very strange.

He didn't know how much time had passed before the splitting headache gradually faded. Edward York gritted his teeth and stood up, constantly knocking on his own head, trying hard to sort out the chaotic thoughts in his mind.

"Who am I?"

"I'm Edward York... a detective at the Bajing Police Station, Yangguan District, Ping'an City, Jingjiang Province... No, no, I seem to be a full-time investigator at the Criminal Investigation Division of the Ping'an City Public Security Bureau, Jingjiang Province..."

"Why am I here..."

"I think... I was just struck by lightning..."

"Huh, damn, I think I was just struck by lightning twice..."

Struck by lightning twice!

That was what confused Edward York the most.

It felt like both times were so real. One happened now, on May 21, 2002, and the other, Edward York remembered clearly, also happened now, on July 28, 2018...

Both times, the one struck by lightning was himself!

It's just that one was his current self, and the other was himself sixteen years in the future.

Suddenly, his mind was filled with many new memories.

But these memories were incomplete.

What the hell is going on?

How could this happen?

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and Edward York was already soaked to the bone.

No matter what, he should find a place to take shelter from the rain first. Or maybe just go home, change into clean clothes, make a cup of hot tea, smoke a cigarette, and try to sort out the mess in his mind.

Otherwise, Edward York felt like he was going to go crazy.

However, just at that moment, hurried footsteps sounded, and a woman suddenly rushed around the street corner, drenched by the rain, hurrying past Edward York.

"Hey..."

On impulse, Edward York called out.

He didn't know why, but suddenly an image popped into his mind.

It was a corpse!

A young woman's corpse, lying dead on the street.

In Edward York's memory, the place where the woman's body was found wasn't far from where he was standing now, just ahead...

The young woman was wearing a red and yellow sports jacket.

And the woman who had just run past was also wearing a red and yellow sports jacket...

Instinctively, Edward York felt that the woman who had just run past was the same as the dead woman in his memory. But this woman was clearly still alive, had just run right past him.

Where did the corpse in his memory, the murder scene in his memory, come from?

Could it be that when he was struck by lightning just now, the memory came from another time, from his self sixteen years in the future?

His future self, sixteen years later, was also struck by lightning?

And then, his memories connected with his self in this timeline?