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baihe_mediaWelcome to the read-along for Miss Forensics by Jiu Nuan Chun Shen! As previously stated, we will be reading FIVE (5) chapters a week, so a new read-along post will go up every 2 weeks. Each chapter summary will be posted and serve as parent threads for each chapter, so please do your best to keep your comments under the correct ones!
One chapter will go up per day, Monday through Friday, and I will do my best to slip them in before it's evening in Asia. Of course, if you are up for it, please feel free to post the chapter summaries to get the read-along going!
The link to the novel on JJWXC can be found here.
You can also follow the novel through the audiobook on Himalaya, though there may be slight changes and ommissions from the original.
Chapter 1
Date: 2025-06-09 11:38 pm (UTC)The story kicks off with Lin Yan's nightmare of Chu Nan, who appears to be close to Lin Yan, and a confrontation of unanswered mysteries. Lin Yan then awakens from it, and goes about her (grumpy) morning before heading out.
Re: Chapter 1
Date: 2025-06-10 03:40 am (UTC)Regarding Lin Yan's nightmare: Was there ever a reason why nightmare Chunan seems to blame Lin Yan for her death? I can understand it if it was blaming her for still not finding her murderer, but blaming her directly for her death seems unnecessary. I vaguely remember Lin Yan angsting over this later on in the story for being technically true (no, not really) but current Lin Yan does not know that yet. I guess this is something I'll have to keep in mind and come back to when we reach the finale
Wow, Lin Yan is immediately presented as immensely unlikable. I can't remember a single time outside of this story where one of the main leads in baihe isn't first presented as incredibly appealing, and it's hard to imagine such a story existing with the current audience. It definitely makes me wonder how this story in particular was able to gain such mainstream popularity
Re: Chapter 1
Date: 2025-06-10 03:50 pm (UTC)Re: Chapter 1
Date: 2025-06-10 11:34 pm (UTC)Re: Chapter 1
Date: 2025-06-11 02:08 am (UTC)Re: Chapter 1
Date: 2025-06-10 10:54 pm (UTC)When I first read this chapter, I spent most of it going, 'OMG Lin Yan STOP WASTING food/culturally significant antique rugs/expensive cars/the hard work of your assistant who is probably just doing his best.' On this reread, I did exactly the same thing. Also how is she a PROFESSOR?? My friends who are adjuncts/slowly crawling their way towards tenure would like a word???
Re: Chapter 1
Date: 2025-06-11 05:58 am (UTC)Also, 林厌's name struck me as pretty unusual. I wonder if we find out who named her. It kinda suits what we know of her personality so far?
Re: Chapter 1
Date: 2025-06-11 11:02 pm (UTC)Chapter 2
Date: 2025-06-10 04:09 pm (UTC)Lin Yan arrives at the courthouse and is immediately swarmed by the media's questions, from asking about her professional capabilities to her family background. She is met with haters and death threats, but she does not seem to care as she carries on with what she's been paid to do. When the session wraps up, she comes out and is once again thrown questions of doubt, to which she bites back.
Re: Chapter 2
Date: 2025-06-10 05:37 pm (UTC)From my understanding, it seems that Lin Yan gets established as someone who always cared for others with a sense of justice all along later on, just that she has her own understanding of what justice means to her (especially with the quote that I always see fans of this story use "为生者权，替死者言"). I've never understood how the shift in perception actually happens and always felt that there was a disconnect in how Lin Yan is like in the beginning and somewhere halfway through the story. This scene unfortunately does not inspire any confidence that there was actually a smooth development in the story to me.
Re: Chapter 2
Date: 2025-06-10 11:28 pm (UTC)I also, honestly, check in with myself every now and then as to whether I would hold a typical male protagonist in an action thriller up to the same level of 'moral' behaviour as I'm probably subconsciously holding Lin Yan to. Because I can envision registers of thriller writing where a male lead doing more or less the same thing would be portrayed as unequivocally badass (and an interesting thing here is that it ISN'T portrayed as unequivocally badass, what with the shaken assistant's musings about how Lin Yan would probably leave him for dead).
Re: Chapter 2
Date: 2025-06-12 05:32 pm (UTC)If they should be angry at anyone, it should be the police and the original coroner for completely botching the victim's cause of death, not the independent consultant who came to weigh in at the trial with their expertise.
Also, you'd think Lin Yan would have received some media training, given her family status and her line of work. =.=
Re: Chapter 2
Date: 2025-06-13 04:29 am (UTC)Chapter 3
Date: 2025-06-12 04:25 pm (UTC)Lin Yan meets with a man who has promised to help her investigate a closed case, but it seems like nothing helpful has turned up. Song Yuhang makes her first appearance in the novel in conversation with Zhao Junfeng, her mentor, who later also invites her home for a meal with him and his wife.
Re: Chapter 3
Date: 2025-06-12 05:39 pm (UTC)Re: Chapter 3
Date: 2025-06-13 04:30 am (UTC)Chapter 4
Date: 2025-06-13 05:17 am (UTC)Lin Yan's driver nearly crashes into an old lady crossing the street, which causes an uproar amongst the witnesses. After getting her day ruined by Song Yuhang, she leaves for the police station, only to be met with … Song Yuhang.
Chapter 5
Date: 2025-06-13 05:32 am (UTC)Lin Yan immediately makes herself comfortable as a new addition to the team, not forgetting to stick to her routine of coffee and face masks. It's revealed here via a phone call that she hasn't been in direct contact with her father, and much of the contact she does make with the Lin family is through her cousin, Lin Ge. Her phone call is interrupted by Song Yuhang who comes around for some materials, but they end up getting into a heated argument.