When Night's Embers Herald the Dawn

On her wedding day, the bride dies under mysterious circumstances. The last person to see her alive was Song Jiyang, the medical school's genius heartthrob.

But no one knows that Song Jiyang has been dead for five years. The man now living as “Song Jiyang” is Qi An, who has assumed his identity. He returned home wearing his best friend's secret identity, determined to expose the dark truth behind a drug-smuggling operation. But the low heels beneath the bride's wedding dress, the threats made by a gambler father after his finger was cut off, the strange smell of earthworm oil coming from a flowerpot... Each clue pushes him closer to the abyss.

Lies aren't the only danger.

Pei Qiuming, a figure from Qi An's past, closes in on him at every turn. One remark, “Song Jiyang has been dead for a long time,” nearly shatters Qi An's disguise. This cold, stern law professor is both Qi An's weakness and the only weapon he can trust.

The two go from confronting each other to joining forces, only to discover that the conspiracy is tied to the shocking secret of Song Jiyang's “return from the dead”: an empty coffin at the funeral, a weasel spirit demanding a life, and a deadly pursuit by an international drug lord...

The line between disguise and truth is razor-thin.

As Qi An uses his nose, like a “human mass spectrometer,” to unravel the mystery of the earthworm oil, Pei Qiuming wields the cold blade of the law to expose the sordid truth behind the Song family's massacre ten years ago.

Dual identities, bloody deals, a struggle between life and death...

In this deadly game spanning ten years, no one will make it out unscathed.

“Qi An, you can't escape.”

“Pei Qiuming, this time, I'm taking you to hell with me.”