In the 23rd year of the Republic of China, every drop of rain on Shanghai Beach was dripping with sin.
When the body of the director of the Charity Hospital curled up like a baby in the steam chamber, when the retired warlord fell to his death amid the sound of Kun Opera, eight strange murder cases entangled Shanghai like poisonous ivy. At each scene, a blood-stained copper coin was left engraved with Sanskrit "the truth of suffering" - the Eight Sufferings of Buddhism, which turned out to be a serial killing!
Concession detective Chen Yanqing, foreign forensic doctor Su Wanyun, and gangster boy Du Xiaoqi were forced to form a triangular alliance. They tear apart the hypocrites:
Ren doctors sell babies into laboratories
Newspaper tycoon uses pen and ink to strangle conscience
Movie queen trades red lips for souls
Every dead person is a villain, and every murderer is not a demon.
The delayed killing intent in the steam pipeline, the life-threatening infrasound hidden in the gramophone record, the bone poison tempered by the arrows in the sleeves of the thousand-year-old Buddha statues... All living beings in troubled times use sophisticated tricks to judge the evils of troubled times. The deeper the three of them go into the puzzle, the more they fall into the paradox of love and law:
When the law becomes a plaything of the powerful, is lynching mercy?
When the avenger uses "Buddha's suffering" as his blade, who is qualified to judge all sentient beings?
In the dark line, the copper coin mark follows like a shadow. The shady marriage corpse cabinet in the funeral home, the epidemic cage in the pharmacy, the bloodthirsty relics in the golden Buddhist hall... All the evils ultimately point to a feast - the ice needle in the cake for thousands of people is dripping with poison that combines the eight sufferings, and the person holding the knife is actually their closest relative!
In this maze of steam and blood and tears, the truth is a knife sharper than death.
"We tracked down the murderer, but we cleared the devil's name."
——When the last copper coin landed, the spectators realized that they were already in the game.
