Mystery Case One, “Murder in the Riverbank Fog”: A man's body is found in the Sanshui River. Though he did not kill the man, after being suspected and then released, he turns himself in to the public security bureau.
Mystery Case Two, “The Mantis”: On a rainy autumn night, two men drive to an abandoned farm in the countryside to dig up a corpse. A third man watches them from the darkness. The killer is one of the three.
Mystery Case Three, “Mountain Haunting”: Zang Jinshi graduates from the police academy with excellent grades, but unexpectedly gives up a bright future and returns to the small county town where he was born. He wants to find out whether a monster really lives in Lingzhu Mountain, and whether that creature had anything to do with his parents' deaths.
