When the first carefully disguised body surfaced at the Huaming City Pier, Chen Yu knew that the darkness of the city was slowly opening his eyes. He stood in front of the dissection table, his eyes like a knife, cutting through the secrets under the surface and the starting point of his own destiny.
When he first entered the police station, he faced layers of foggy cases, questioning eyes and indifference within the system. A bizarre drowning case plunged him into a crisis of confidence, and a series of disappearances pushed him to the forefront. The truth is like bones buried deep in the ground, waiting for a pair of firm hands to dig out.
The twist began during a late-night autopsy. The foreign object he found between the deceased's fingernails became the first crack to tear apart the lie. Zhang Feng's intuition and Li Na's skills, the three gradually became a rope, walking through the gaps of sin. Every time he gets closer to the truth, it means a greater price - betrayal of trust, physical limits, and even the threat of death.
They uncovered the shady story of the smuggling gang, but encountered undercurrents from within the police station; they solved the mystery of high-intelligence crimes, but found that justice is not always easy to reach. Chen Yu's growth is not due to talent, but is the result of lonely persistence.
When the neon lights in the city cannot cover up the bloody shadow, when science and conscience are crumbling in the face of power, how should humans choose? Silence or speaking out?