Someone spent ten years recreating the same murder.
Ten years ago, law professor Zhou Mingyuan was accused of sexually assaulting a student and died by suicide in a detention center. The key witness was his most prized female student. After she said those words, there was no doubt left about the case.
Ten years later, a rising star actress fell to her death. All the evidence pointed to her wealthy husband, and the lawyer defending him was that same student from years ago.
The detective handling the case was the one who had personally arrested Zhou Mingyuan ten years earlier, and also the woman’s ex-boyfriend, whom she had broken up with five years ago.
The same method. The same chain of evidence. The same silent witness.
Someone told them: You’re not investigating a new case. You’re settling an old score from ten years ago.
Someone warned them: Keep digging, and you’ll be next to die.
And when they finally found the truth, they realized
They had never been the investigators. They were pawns being manipulated.
In that silence, everyone was complicit.
