The Truth in the Folds

On the early morning of the summer solstice in 1997, the body of a young woman wearing a red shirt emerged from the green water plant bushes. Nineteen-year-old Zhou Fengying died - eyes closed, curled up, with a thin silver ring on her ring finger. No one knows what she went to town to buy yesterday afternoon, and no one can tell why she sank into this unnamed drainage ditch. Grassroots policeman Li Jianguo saw the shadow of his dead sister on the face of the corpse, while veteran detective Chen Guodong read the panic of the murderer hiding in the trampled water peanut vines. A habit, a broken leaf, a ring - the truth is hidden in the most inconspicuous folds. And when they followed the subtle clues and cleared the fog bit by bit, they discovered not only the cause of a person's death, but also the secrets of human nature that had been submerged and forgotten in the torrent of the entire era.