[The story is fictitious, any similarities in names or places are purely coincidental]
In the cold winter of 1999, Qi Weidong, a technician from the Northeast Forestry Farm, discovered a strange corpse frozen into an ice sculpture during a routine mountain patrol. The deceased was Zhao Jinbao, a famous local entrepreneur. The corpse was deliberately placed in a kneeling position in front of an abandoned hunter's cabin.
Ma Guodong, captain of the county criminal police, and Lin Xiaoman, an intern who just graduated from the provincial police academy, formed a temporary partnership. An old criminal detective with a bad mouth and a police rookie full of theoretical knowledge collided and sparkled.
The autopsy found undigested sticky bean buns in the stomach of the deceased. There was a contradiction between the time of death and the time of the last appearance. The thickness of the ice covering the surface of the body suggested that the murderer had carefully planned the time to dump the body.
The investigation points to a bizarre fire in a forest farm twenty years ago. The caretaker at that time, Lao Suntou, became a key witness, but now he is showing abnormal fear and avoidance.
As the investigation deepened, Ma Guodong discovered that the case was secretly related to the death of his father, a veteran policeman who was responsible for the fire investigation but died accidentally.
