Bones untouched by the cold for twenty years are stirring. A curse is awakening.
> On the night of the drug squad chief Lin Bowei's victory celebration, an anonymous letter bearing a blood-painted tree symbol tears open an old wound: his father's death was no accident, and the truth is locked inside the never-before-seen Bronze Sacred Tree of Sanxingdui.
> When he finds Shen Muyue, the historian who holds the key, deaths begin to pile up
> A strangulation mark remains on the neck of her father, who supposedly died of a heart attack; a bullet hole appears in the study of her archaeological colleague, whose death was ruled a suicide. Beside every corpse is the same eerie tree pattern.
> To solve the cold case, they are forced to join forces:
> - She deciphers her father's notes and discovers that the sacred tree can actually bend bullet trajectories, and that the New Dragon Society, a criminal empire, draws its totem from it
> - He investigates an old drug lord case, only to realize that the presence of Dragon Lord, a condemned prisoner, has returned to the scene. A mole inside the police station has already laid a deadly trap
> When an antique knife at an auction presses against Shen Muyue's throat, Lin Bowei finally sees the truth
> The stakes in this deadly game spanning twenty years were never the truth, but whether humanity can wield a god-slaying power before civilization is annihilated
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