[Crime + Mystery + Family Ethics + Youth] A naked woman’s corpse appears in a locust grove on the outskirts of the city. The victim, Lin Yuan, was young and beautiful, with a bright future ahead of her. She had just received an acceptance letter from a top art academy. Her death tears open the tangled filth and sins beneath a polished façade.
Professor Bai Chunhui, a revered figure in the art world who hides behind a façade of moral rectitude, had an unspeakable, forbidden arrangement with Lin Yuan. His daughter, Bai Xing, appears to be an elegant young lady from a respectable family, but years of her father’s affairs and sexual power plays have long since corrupted her from within. To get revenge on him, she wields rebellion as a blade and uses her sex appeal as armor, deliberately seducing and playing with Chen Ye, a low-born thug. On the night Lin Yuan was killed, Chen Ye’s whereabouts were a mystery, making him a major suspect. Lin Yuan’s death drags him into the vortex, while Bai Xing’s betrayal shoves him straight into the abyss.
In the silent world of Lin Xiao, a deaf-mute boy, his older sister Lin Yuan is his only light. Under their mother’s years of psychological manipulation, his dependence on her has twisted into a pathological possessiveness. But is a single corpse all that lies buried beneath the soil of the locust grove? The truth about their “missing” father is far more brutal than anyone could imagine.
