When murder takes place in the "absolute time" witnessed by everyone, the truth becomes the only impossible thing that needs to be solved.
The echoes of the New Year's bells had barely faded when real estate tycoon Wu Shihao dropped dead during a New Year's Eve livestream watched by millions. The scene was a locked room, and the timing was ironclad: a perfect crime that was doubly impossible, both physically and chronologically.
Criminal investigation consultant Chen Yao, a genius trapped in a cage of logic by a past mistake, is forced to face a puzzle that defies every convention. The killer calls himself the "Shadow Artist." Each murder is a ritualistic public "trial," with its sights set on a blood-soaked case the city has forgotten for twenty years. Always one step ahead, he elegantly lures both the police and Chen Yao into his carefully designed maze, even making Chen Yao a suspect.
This is a brutal contest between two exceptionally brilliant minds:
One uses logic to restore order, convinced that everything leaves a trace;
The other uses art to create chaos, aiming to turn the silenced past into a deafening present.
As the investigation deepens, Chen Yao discovers that he is solving more than an ingenious method of murder: he is uncovering the festering scars beneath the city's polished surface. The killer's ultimate goal may not be to escape justice, but to stage a final performance in which he offers himself as a sacrifice, turning a concealed crime into the city's eternal ghost.
In this feast of deduction, where life and death are at stake, there are no innocent spectators. Only when the final truth is revealed will you understand: the most perfect crimes often begin with the purest sense of justice, while the deadliest traps are always laid for the cleverest hunters.
