A top student turned out to be the true culprit behind a massacre that wiped out an entire family, sending the whole city into an uproar! He had hidden himself so well that Gu Jianghua, a police academy graduate, became obsessed with the case. On his very first day at work, he encountered this murder case and vowed not to rest until it was solved. Yet he had clearly underestimated the criminal’s intelligence: every year, the culprit sent him a New Year’s card.
This was not only an insult to him, but a provocation to the entire police force. Despite burning with rage, he used every resource to pursue the case, but it was like searching for a needle in the sea.
There were seventeen suspects in all who came under Gu Jianghua’s scrutiny. Over the course of twenty years, he tracked and investigated them one by one, only to discover an even more shocking tragedy behind it all.
A portrait of extreme personalities, sparked by a single murder, lays bare the cruelty of this world.
You want to cry, but don’t know for whom to shed your tears.
You want to curse, but as you look at the endless stream of people on the street, you don’t know who to blame.
He was an outcast in this world. He embraced it with all his heart, but all it gave him was a cold shoulder.
She was the darling of this world. Raised to the very top, she was then cast down into hell, until darkness swallowed her whole.
No one can escape justice. Only an unyielding will can bring the true culprit to justice!
Keep going, Gu Jianghua!
Twenty years of vicissitudes, the history of blood and tears of the struggle of the people at the bottom, and the endless entanglement between human nature and animal nature. Close to reality and with an exclusive perspective, this is a low-pitched spiritual swan song!