So, their powers are so linked to their personalities too. Like, MC can't feel emotions so his power is mind-reading so he can somewhat understand people. ML has read criminal psych books since he was a kid so he can easily understand killer psychology and his power became dreaming about the kills & keeping a lid on his dark personality. So, during their confession, it was so funny. They just complete this comedy sketch like confession scene and after that, since MC is such an emotional blackhole, he just had to spoil the atmosphere. Then the author did the most spectacular phenomenon of twisting a confession into a morbid scene. I mean, look at this snippet:

"In the end, Chi Qing said, "How did you come to the conclusion?"

Xie Lin's hand moved away from the top of his head, and then dropped, and landed on Chi Qing's wrist. He took Chi Qing's hand and put his hand on the fifth intercostal space on his left chest through the coat cloth. That is the position of the human heart.

Similar to the location where the cat's corpse was pierced in the cat killing case.

Xie Lin's hands were cold. His clothes were too thin today, and he suffered a day of freezing in pursuit of good looks.

But in stark contrast to his cold hands - his heart was beating violently.

The beating frequency was transmitted to Chi Qing's palm, and Chi Qing's hand seemed to become a kind of linker at a certain moment. He found that the heartbeat that came at this moment was the same frequency as his.

"From here, " Xie Lin replied."

It was so funny. They're abnormal people so here we have an abnormal confession that still ended up being cute to death!

So, it's revealed pretty early on that they were both survivors of a kidnapping case 10 years ago. However, they realize it pretty late. And when they start talking to each other about it, it ended up being so sweet instead of traumatic. Lol. Like, ML was talking about how he delivered himself to the kidnapper and tried to find a partner to get out of there. MC was speechless bcoz he was the one who replied to him in morse code that ML was being noisy then lol. Even since then, they were both quite peculiar. Moreover, I realized that MC may be subconsciously not evasive to ML's touch because of this interaction. Like, they escaped from the same traumatic experience together. So he's in a safe zone of sorts and hence, special. The foreshadowing is too layered. It was amazing.

I especially liked how even after the MC could read the ML's mind, he realized that he was still special.

A lot of these mind reading tropes have the love interest remain unreadable, or only readable rarely. However here, the ML lets down his defenses with the MC which completely lets MC read his mind.

It's just so sweet!

The villain, Z, has his own backstory that is absolutely tragic.

It was sad but also understandable. He's definitely not a 1D villain, he felt quite real to me.

(Spoiler of extra - not main plot) Somehow, the ML proposed using a knife? I didn't know whether to cry or to laugh when I read it so I did both

He does not have powers. He doesn't dream about crime scenes or sees in the criminal's pov through the form of a power. He understands a criminal's psychology so well, that he can easily guess the criminals method of mu*der and motives. As such, he can recreate the crime scene perfectly in his head by "fitting" himself inside the role of a mu*derer. It is not his power. I'm sort of stuck in a language loop today so I find it hard to express what I mean, but I hope you get it.

One of the most memorable made up parts was the mental health doctor (no idea what it is in English), who somehow disclosed another patients's confidential to someone else without their consent. I'm staying in a place where there are no mental health "doctors", only "experts", so I'm not exactly sure if it's the same as doctors, but yeah. Also, I'm pretty sure he implied that love (which he referred to as a magic potion) would solve many things (which at the time was implied to be to MC's mysophobia), which is irresponsible as heck.

I liked how it revealed that all the cases are somehow connected and all the criminals were spurred on by an evil mastermind with a sad backstory (but don't all evil masterminds have sad backstory?), which led to the revelation of our leads' backstory, which is kinda heartbreaking, the things they had to go through.

The overarching plot was that someone was behind the scenes, pushing the criminals to commit those crimes. He was also linked to the kidnapping case 10 years ago.