Case File Compendium Quotes

You’ll grow old one day too! You’re dressed in such flashy, glamorous clothes, and yet your heart is so rotten?!

But now, He Yu was already nineteen, and Xie Qingcheng was thirty-two.

For the truth, he lost his dreams. For his little sister, he lost his health. To defeat his illness, he lost his reason to live. And to recover his reason to live, he lost his sense of peace and tranquility.

Xie Qingcheng, doesn’t it hurt…? All these years, haven’t you been in pain? Haven’t you…been lonely…?

If "love" was what made someone walk into the fray, despite knowing very well that it was wrong - if "love" made them stand by their mistakes, despite knowing full well that they were stepping into a bottomless abyss, to the point they could disregard anything from infamy, scorn, principles, morals, to life itself - then, to him, this seemed less like a type of affection and more like some kind of disease.

All the things he had done… Full of deep ardor, like a supple thread winding ceaselessly around his heart, impossible to forsake. Could it be… Could it be because he loved him? Did he— Did he…love Xie Qingcheng?!

He kissed He Yu passionately. For the first time, he felt that being intimate with He Yu could stem the bleeding of his heart. When he was with He Yu, he felt like he would be truly needed—not replaceable, not something He Yu could do without.

It was precisely that struggle between ignorance and enlightenment, understanding and intolerance, human thought and bestial instinct, that allowed human civilization to leave a trail of bloody footprints on the banks of the endless river of history.

I may have started falling the first time I saw you. Your appearance brought hope to my world. Because of you, I have someone by my side who can completely understand my pain. If what we're doing right now is wrong, then it was already wrong when you gave me your hand twelve years ago.

Xie Qingcheng imagined the scene for a moment. With a chilly expression, he tersely replied, “Too gay. I’m homophobic.” Xie Qingcheng shoved He Yu away. He circled around him to enter the dorm and began searching. He Yu was at a loss for words. “What? That’s not what I meant. If you’re homophobic, then I’m even more homophobic

Whatever you want has nothing to do with me.” Xie Qingcheng’s expression was frosty. His paternalistic tendencies surfaced once more as he scolded her without blinking an eye. “However, Miss Bai, do you have any shame? Can’t you see what state he’s in? To get views, you’ll keep on going even though you know it’s wrong; you choose unscrupulous methods even when you know the consequences. Despite knowing full well the pain your actions will bring to others, you have no qualms about exploiting it for attention because you’re not the one getting hurt. Have you no conscience?!

The first psychiatrist to look closely at the more extreme forms of sadistic behavior was the eminent German physician Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Besides coining the term “masochism” (named after the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose famous novel, Venus in Furs, deals with a man who craves humiliation), Krafft-Ebing made a major contribution to the literature of morbid psychology with his classic book, Psychopathia Sexualis—a massive compendium of every known perversion, illustrated with hundreds of detailed case histories. At the time of its initial publication in 1886, the book was considered so shocking that its author was nearly expelled from the prestigious British Medico-Psychological Association. Even today, it makes for deeply disturbing reading. Still, it is a significant work, one that clearly demonstrates there’s nothing new about serial murder. Of course, Krafft-Ebing doesn’t use the term “serial murder,” which wouldn’t enter the language for another hundred years. The term he uses is the German word lustmord or “lust-murder.” The essence of this crime is extreme sadistic violence against the victim. The lust-murderer doesn’t just kill his victims. His ultimate pleasure comes from savaging their bodies: disemboweling them, cutting out their genitals, etc. For such blood-crazed sadists, violence is a substitute for sex.

It’s been twenty years. I don’t trust anyone anymore.” “There’s no way for me to turn back.” “The people in the sky with come to take me away. I want to go up into the sky.” I’ll never turn back.

Also, he might want you to take responsibility by becoming his wife. Look at how pretty you are-you'd make a decent foster bride

I like you, Xie Qingchen; it's as simple as that. Even if you think I'm wrong, I'll be wrong until the end, until I die—then I'll be proven right. Don't be so upset and don't wake up so easily from sleep, because I'm here. Every day, minute and second that I'm alive, I'll love you. I will protect you, and I won't leave you.

I don't regret going to the archives, the studio, or the Yi Family Village with you at all. Like I told you before, I love you. I don't know if you've loved anyone in your life, but you should understand the feeling of not wanting someone important to you to face danger alone. You're not willing to wait for others to give you results—so why are you willing to impose that sort of waiting and helplessness on me?

Kiss me once before I die. To die for love is yet an alluring thing.

I'm not afraid of death. If you die, then there won't be anyone important to me left in this world. I don't know how many times I have to say it before you'll believe me.

I would love you if you were a woman. I'd love you even if you were my dad, much less an uncle.

The most important part of love is 'I love you.' Without those words, it's nothing at all. You need to have love before you can talk about responsibility. What are you doing otherwise, giving charity?

With you, I'd be willing to be condemned to death any number of times,

If reincarnation exists, I'd gladly die with you a thousand times—a million times! As long as in one of those lives, you'll believe that I really do love you.

See, I'm completely shameless, terribly sick, and in too deep. You're the one who forced me to speak my mind, and since you're such a responsible person, you ought to take responsibility for me, right? Give me a chance to pursue you, okay?

Please don't think I'm childish. You're pretty childish too. From now on, don't use vegetarian restaurants to scare me. You'll find it's no use at all. Never mind becoming vegetarian—even if you shave your head and become a monk, I'll still come to the temple gates every day to pay my respects. I seriously want to pursue you. I love you.

In the past, no one told you, 'Thank you for coming back.' I wanted ot make it up to you. I wanted you to know that even if Qin Ciyan is no longer here, you have me to understand you entirely.

Ge, this is a birthday only I can celebrate with you. I know we're facing many obstacles, unsolved cases, and dangers, but look—there are also beautiful fireworks outside...and you still have me. Don't be upset with me for being so clingy today. I was afraid even you would forget this day. I really wanted to say to you, Xie Qingchen, thank you for your tenacity twenty years ago. Thank you for surviving, so that I had the chance to meet this version of you.

He loved him furiously, gently, violently.

You're not expendable. I can't live without you. I can lose my life, but I can't lose you. If you die, then we die together.

People's relationships were like the growth cycle of a red spider lily, with new replacing the old. The stems of the plant couldn't bear the weight of the flowers, leaves, and fruit at the same time; just as the leaves died when the flowers bloomed, the flowers withered when the fruit came to bear.

You are the one, Xie Qingchen. You are the only one. I can use my life to prove my sincerity—that what I say holds no trace of deception. I would die with you and have no regrets.

Xie Qingchen, if you won't live, then neither will I. I've accompanied you through so many life and death situations; this time will be no exception. I said that I would love you through every minute and every second of my life, that I would always protect you, and now I've don it.

Don't look down on me just because I'm young, and don't tell me I'm naive or confused about my feelings. I love you, I adore you, I want you...and now, I'll die with you. I didn't break my promise.

Xie Qingchen, hold me. As long as you hold me, even if I turn to ash, to dust, and fade away into the roiling past...I'm no longer afraid.

You kissed me, so I'll be sure to look after myself. Because I know you'll kiss me a second time, a third time, a thousand more times in the future. When I think about that, I love this world so much—so much that death would never be able to take me away. Don't worry, I'll be careful. I love you.

Once you've been a beast for long enough, you aren't scared of anything anymore.

He Yu was feeling unwell.

Don’t you understand? I’m not doubting, I just want to plan for the worst—if I’m really going to drown here, then I want to at least live with a little bit more clarity before I die. What about you? Will you still refuse to tell me just a little bit of the truth, even if you’re going to die?” “What will the truth matter when our bodies have already gone cold?