This story has a very tragic ending. Please don't read it if that's not for you. Readers of all genders are welcome.
One badge number, three generations of police officers, and a mission left unfinished for fifty years.
By the time Badge Number 03715 was sealed away forever in a glass case at the Hanjiang Police Museum, it had fallen silent alongside its three owners: Chen Weiguo, Chen Zhigang, and Chen Jun, three generations of a family of police officers. On the surface, this is a tragic tale of three generations of officers who gave their lives one after another. But journalist Su Qing, Chen Jun's fiancée, finds cracks in the story among his belongings: unfamiliar bloodstains on a pocket watch, an unfinished code in a diary, and a mysterious figure on a rooftop captured by a body camera... Every clue points to a truth deliberately buried: the three sacrifices were not unrelated.
This is not a legacy. It is an accounting.
A gun whose trigger was pulled back in 1985 sent its bullet through time. A crime and its punishment, begun in the grandfather's generation, were paid for in the blood of three generations. Each time the badge number is reactivated, the secret deepens; each sacrifice makes the echoes of history grow heavier.
As Su Qing struggles to find answers among an aging grandmother, a guilt-ridden veteran officer, and a tight-lipped police chief, she gradually pieces together a horrifying picture spanning half a century: how kindness can breed tragedy, how steadfastness can give rise to hatred, and how the deepest evil sometimes wears the most dignified uniform.
When the badge is sealed away, does the oath end?
When the truth comes out, is forgiveness possible?
