Fire Under Frost

In 1980, the cold winter still lingered in Linjiang City, Northeast China. A corpse sunk in an ice cave broke the superficial order. Associate Professor of Philosophy Chen Moyan, an "orderist" obsessed with logic and neatness, was forced to get involved in a crime mystery due to the mysterious disappearance of his sister ten years ago. He formed a perfect partnership with the rugged and courageous criminal police captain Zhao Weiguo, and the calm and mysterious female forensic doctor Li Hongmei to track down a series of bizarre deaths among industrial whistles and street smoke. From the explosion in the boiler room to the gold hidden in the pickled cabbage vat, from the mutilation of corpses on the railway to the murder on the river, the depth of every crime points to the same underground network - the "old warehouse". It is like an underground river under the ice, trading materials for secrets and trading ledgers for lives. While solving the case, Chen Moyan gradually discovered that his sister's disappearance was not an accident, but touched the most dangerous nerve in this frozen city. The cold conceals the evidence, and the times hide the scars. When the final winter hunt kicked off, the truth shattered like an ice sheet. Frost is the silent appearance of the Northeast in the 1980s; fire is the unquenched pursuit and residual warmth of humanity. This is a pursuit burning in the extreme cold, a difficult operation to salvage personal truth from collective memory.