A meticulously planned theft turns up the corpse of a child encased in amber. The victim is the owner's daughter, who disappeared twenty years ago, yet the owner flatly denies it.
A physicist solves the mystery of the amber, but the owner is found brutally murdered at home, covered in whip marks. The fatal injury, however, is a ruptured internal organ.
Ye Ke, hospitalized with a “work-related injury,” runs into the thief and watches helplessly as he is killed by a car. Before dying, the thief hands Ye Ke a stack of remittance slips.
The victim's movements seem to point straight to the killer's identity, but the deeper Ye Ke investigates, the farther away the truth seems.
A fire breaks out at an orphanage, destroying the archives and killing the elderly director. A celebrated dancer breaks a leg bone during rehearsal. The killer's shaky alibi is riddled with oversights, yet Ye Ke still can't find his way out of the maze, while the killer's methods continue to baffle Cheng Yao.
A medical record from twenty years ago rekindles Ye Ke's hope. The truth is finally within reach, and Cheng Yao finds the murder weapon, only to discover that this time, he isn't the protagonist…
Layers of events from twenty years ago are involved, and a series of strange events such as arson and murder are connected in a series of elaborate plots. The case is not only about reasoning, but also reveals the guilt, avoidance and pain in human nature. Amber traps the dead, and the human heart traps the living. It is sad to read, and it also makes people see the heavy reality behind the pursuit of the truth.
The difficulties Ye Ke encountered in the process of pursuing the truth made me empathize with him. Moreover, the characters' personalities in the book are also very delicate. I can feel their persistence and confusion. Especially seeing Ye Ke rekindle hope at a critical moment, I was also inspired. This book is worth reading and I recommend it to everyone!