Undercurrents surged under the neon lights of Beijing City. In her eighth year at Dishun Financial, veteran salesperson Wang Siyu suffered the most fatal betrayal of her career - the company cut off her million-dollar commission in order to reduce costs, and even set up a trap to frame her for accepting kickbacks, dragging her into the abyss of criminal detention.
Behind the bars of the detention center, she grabbed a glimmer of hope from despair. Under the recommendation of Tian Xiaoning, the "No. 1 Divorce lawyer in Beijing", Wang Qianfan, a criminal defense expert, stepped forward and peeled off the cocoons during the trial. He used "suspicious innocence" to tear open the cracks in the frame and help her clear her grievances.
But her acquittal was just the beginning: the stigma in the financial circle made it impossible for her to find a job, her marriage collapsed due to mortgage pressure and a crisis of trust, and she was reduced to an account manager at the bottom of a law firm. But when she took up legal weapons to recover 900,000 yuan in compensation for herself, the seeds in her heart had already sprouted - she would put on a lawyer's robe and split the darkness for more people like herself in this city that devours the weak.
From a framed suspect to a criminal defense lawyer defending a death row inmate, Wang Siyu stumbled forward in the legal jungle in northern Beijing, and the power-money transactions and human nature games hidden under the glamorous city have just begun...
