Five years ago, the cable car on Qingya Mountain broke, sending seventeen people to their deaths in the gorge. A deliberate crime was disguised as an accident, and the guilty went free. Five years later, a blizzard closed off the mountain, and nine people connected to the old accident were invited to a guesthouse on Qingya Mountain. A strange nursery rhyme heralded the start of the revenge: “When the first snow falls, guests gather inside; Qingya Guesthouse hides cause and effect. When the second snow drifts, no one escapes; the water ghost laughs in the depths of the icy pool...” A perfect snowbound-mountain mystery, a series of locked-room murders: the police investigated every layer, but all they found was the killer’s confession. It seemed the case was finally closed. Yet veteran detective Li Jianguo realized that this seemingly flawless murder case was strange in every way. As the truth was gradually uncovered, the mastermind behind it all finally emerged. She was a survivor of the accident, and a avenger who had spent five years planning this bloody judgment. The law came too late, so she took up the knife. But the end of her revenge was her own destruction. As the snow fell in silence, the crimes and hatred on Qingya Mountain were finally buried beneath a vast blanket of white, leaving behind an enduring question about justice and vigilante vengeance.
