ReverseRedempt

The “perfect victim” he had protected for fifteen years

was turning him into the perfect killer.

Every rescue was a trap she had carefully laid.

In Ashen City, where surveillance left no blind spots, criminal psychologist Lu Chen was a symbol of justice. Both the beginning and the peak of his career stemmed from the sole survivor of a horrific case fifteen years ago: a girl named Lin Wan.

She was pale and fragile, with a faint teardrop-shaped mole beneath her left eye, and she was always waking from nightmares on rainy nights. For fifteen years, Lu Chen had lived next door to her, becoming her shield, her doctor, and the only barrier between her and this cruel world.

He watched her slowly heal from her brokenness, watched her become a master glass restorer, turning shattered things into works of art. He thought he was saving her.

Until the serial murders he solved himself began turning up bizarre glass objects and fragments of nursery rhymes at each crime scene;

Until he discovered that every victim was connected to the truth behind the tragedy fifteen years ago;

Until his partner screamed with his dying breath, “Watch out for Lin Wan… We saved the wrong person, ”

When Lu Chen used the investigative logic he knew best to work backward, a shocking clue emerged: every crucial piece of evidence pointing to the truth had been “accidentally” revealed to him by Lin Wan during her “episodes.” And the password to the encrypted folder was his own police badge number.

Was it redemption, or a long process of conditioning?

When the protector becomes a pawn and the victim becomes the mastermind, this “reverse redemption” fifteen years in the making will finally pierce every tender lie in the most ruthless way.