In the dead of night, some people go farther so others can reach the light.
Zhao Ming, a petty criminal who has spent years scraping by at the bottom of Jiangcheng, should have disappeared in a gangland purge. Instead, the police unexpectedly recruit him to go undercover inside a criminal gang as a “deep-cover operative.”
By day, he is an unknown number in the police files. By night, he is a trusted brother in the underworld.
Every message he passes along is a dance on the edge of a blade.
But when he discovers that his target is connected to senior figures within the police, former comrades, and his own flesh and blood, Zhao Ming begins to understand: perhaps the true enemy has never been in the darkness.
In Jiangcheng, a sleepless city of lights, everyone has secrets.
He lives in the cracks between lies, all for a sliver of truth.
But when black and white blur and good and evil lose focus, how can he hold on to his principles?
“Some people are destined never to see the light, but they themselves are the light.”
A secret war of trust, betrayal, and redemption is about to begin.
