On a stormy night in 1995, three newborns were secretly switched in the delivery room of Ren’ai Hospital. Thirty years later, Chen Hao, an heir to the Bajiquan martial arts tradition, is investigating his mother’s death when he gets caught up in an organ-trafficking network spanning Hong Kong and Macau. The jade ring of the late crime boss Jiang Tiansheng conceals a key to a cryogenic chamber; antidote laced with poison circulates at a charity banquet hosted by a justice of the peace; and beneath a judicial badge lies the cloned donor for a politician who received a heart transplant. From a bloodstained ledger salvaged from a shipwreck at Lei Yue Mun to a cloned heart beating in the ICAC evidence room, Chen Hao uses his fists as blades to carve through the filthy web of deals behind the neon curtain. When the downpour on the twenty-seventh of March washes over the Legislative Council plaza, evidence scattered at the feet of the statue of the Goddess of Justice is soaked in thirty years of blood debt. This underworld game, played for the highest stakes, finally reveals its cruel rebirth, like a snake shedding its skin, in the retreating tide of Victoria Harbour.
