During the Republican era, Yao Qi was a spoiled playboy. As a child, he had dreamed of becoming a police officer. He discussed it with his father, Yao Chang, but his father refused. Yao Chang was a business tycoon and wanted Yao Qi to help run the family business. Yao Qi begged his father to agree, so Yao Chang told him to serve as a police officer for two years before returning to work with him. Yao Qi agreed, and Yao Chang paid someone to get him a position as an officer.
Yao Qi was good at getting along with people, and it wasn’t long before he became a chief inspector.
When several murder cases came along and he failed to solve them, he realized that being a police officer wasn’t child’s play. He put away his spoiled attitude and gave Jiang Hao a major role in the investigations. Jiang Hao had a real talent for solving crimes, but he was quiet, unsociable, and bad at currying favor with his superiors, so they never gave him much responsibility. Those were precisely Yao Qi’s strengths. They complemented each other, and Jiang Hao discovered that the crime scenes had been staged to look like robberies gone wrong. In reality, the cases were murders. Jiang Hao believed the mastermind was a powerful figure, and Yao Qi wanted to catch him. Jiang Hao urged Yao Qi to know when to stop and not investigate any further, suggesting they arrest a few minor figures as scapegoats. But Yao Qi couldn’t accept that. The killer was brazen, and he badly wanted to catch him, yet he was afraid of provoking someone dangerous. He was torn...
