Detective Qin Feng

Set in Anseong, a small border town between China and South China at the turn of the millennium in the late 1990s, as the stage, through the bloody journey of Qin Feng, the captain of the criminal investigation detachment, and his comrades, a blood-stained Ukiyo-e of the turn of the century is outlined. This fictional border city is like a prism of the times, reflecting the complex crime scene of Chinese society during the transition period - bloody murder scenes are intertwined with backroom transactions in collusion between government and businessmen, and the light of underworld's swords and the cold light of police badges constantly collide between the lines of dawn and dusk. The story is not coherent; it is composed of various cases. The four-person criminal investigation team with "criminal hunter" Qin Feng as the core consists of the rugged and heroic deputy captain Gu Dapeng, the seemingly meticulous technician Xiao Tao (Tao Xin) and the top graduate of the police academy Fan Kai. The quartet formed the Golden Team with Wu Min, a forensic doctor from the Municipal Bureau's Forensic Medicine Center (who is also Qin Feng's intimate lover). In the process of solving serial murders, urban gang violence, and official corruption, they not only demonstrate the evolution of criminal investigation technology over the times, but also reveal the subtle spectrum of human nature in extreme situations. When the smoke of the final chapter cleared, Gu Dapeng blocked the bullet fired at Qin Feng with his body, and Tao Xin transferred to the police academy with the trauma of the battlefield. Fan Kai, who received the captain's badge, stood on the top floor of the Public Security Bureau, looking at the neon lights of the new city and the shadows of the old city - the cases that had not yet been told were all frozen in the stack of yellowing files in the drawer of Qin Feng's office...