Suspense novel + criminal investigation + human nature + crime + serial murder + social events
[Image artist × criminal police captain, both intelligent confrontation and tacit protection, hard-core professional line...]
In this world where the truth needs to be depicted and scars need to be seen, Shen Zhimo uses his paintbrush to trace the most secret evils. She can restore broken memories into precise portraits, and she can also outline invisible malice in concrete outlines.
Her childhood sweetheart, the detective captain Lu Lin, is her rational coordinate and her safety boundary. When the two work together to track down a series of serial murders in the name of "art," they discover that each scene is like an unfinished painting—under the distorted aesthetics is the murderer's abnormal desire for understanding and redemption.
From the atonement of the mirror twins to the assisted death in the name of mercy, each case raises the question: When the human heart becomes the most difficult code to crack, how should the portrait artist depict those souls struggling alone in the darkness?
And Shen Zhimo gradually discovered that the most dangerous thing was not the obvious malice, but the paranoia wrapped in the cloak of "goodwill" and the reflections of those who tried to complete self-salvation in other people's lives...
