Testimony by Fire

When Lu Xiaoyu’s only friend mysteriously disappears, it takes just a few days for concern to fade into forgetfulness. The new teacher, Chen Mo, is gentle and refined, but in his final lesson, he leads the bullies out to the middle of the lake. As the boat capsizes and flames ignite across the water, he calmly reveals the truth: the head is buried sixty meters beneath a tree. “Because the truth,” a song drifts on, “is often hidden at the crime scene.” A fire beneath the lake, born of silence and sin and leading to a final judgment, has been kindled.