A body turns up in Bincheng’s nameless river! The left kidney has aged far beyond the victim’s actual years. The steely detective Zhao Lie is at a loss, and forensic pathologist Su Qinghe cannot make sense of it. But Chen Shuo, a clerk at the neighborhood office, sums it up in one sentence: “Someone has been precisely draining his kidney essence, severing his Five Elements!”
A sudden death in a locked room at school, a heart stolen from the morgue, a dismemberment mystery dating back fifteen years... The shadow of the “Five Elements Society” hangs over the whole city, behind a string of unsolved cases. Chen Shuo follows the clues through the Five Elements, while Zhao Lie uses criminal investigation to pin down the real culprit. Together, the two tear open a metaphysical murder plot!
Who is arranging these killings according to the Five Elements, treating human lives like pawns? In this showdown between justice and dark arts, can they defy fate and break the deadly game?
