Lu Yu guards the gates of crime-solving legends Di Renjie and Bao Qingtian, taking on cold cases nobody else dares touch. When a client arrives with a fortune in reward money, searching for a father who vanished fifteen years ago, Lu Yu has no idea that the missing-person case will uncover a string of deadly puzzles.
The history of Hanhai Heavy Industries holds rust-stained memories, accounts that don’t add up, ashes from an incinerator, and an obsession that has endured for fifteen years. The company’s founder disappeared, his old associates died one after another, and only one person rose against the odds to become an untouchable business tycoon. A leather notebook, an unusually staged “suicide,” and traces left behind at an abandoned factory: the clues seem deliberately connected, drawing Lu Yu deeper while every path ends in a deadlock.
A shadow follows him everywhere, and he can’t tell who around him is genuine. Each layer of lies he strips away reveals a deeper secret. What seems like a simple search for a missing person has long been tangled up with the company’s secrets and a mysterious fire from fifteen years ago. What is the person at the top trying to hide? Could the missing person’s whereabouts lie somewhere in this bloody past?
