On a stormy night, elite forensic pathologist Chen Wen is urgently summoned to the murder scene of wealthy businessman Zhou Yongchang. It looks like a robbery-murder, but the metal shard clutched in the victim’s hand bears a symbol that makes Chen Wen’s blood run cold: the signature mark of the “Red Thread Serial Murders,” the case that drove his father to shoot himself twenty years ago! Even more chillingly, the autopsy reveals that the victim’s body contains the same rare anesthetic found in the old case’s victims, and that his back bears a mysterious scar identical to the one on the fifth female victim.
A bloody cold case buried for twenty years suddenly reopens, and the icy symbol returns like a ghost. As Chen Wen investigates, he discovers that his father and the victim once took part in a mysterious event called “Pinewood Summer Camp.” But the path to the truth is lined with danger and death: a mysterious intruder breaks into his home, defaces his father’s portrait, and leaves behind a threatening symbol; key witnesses are killed one after another; and he receives an anonymous warning: “Stop investigating! Your father made the right choice.”
When a long-sealed list of participants comes to light, the glaring note “son of Chen Zhiming” beside Chen Wen’s name, along with the existence of a twin brother he never knew about, plunges everything into an even darker abyss. A blood feud spanning two generations, twisted experiments on human nature, suspicions within the police force… Amid layers of deception and deadly threats, Chen Wen must uncover the ultimate secret behind the icy symbol, confront the curse of evil bound to his own bloodline, and achieve a redemption twenty years overdue. The price of the truth may be life, or it may be the soul.
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