Corpse found in unknown river in Bincheng! The left kidney is prematurely aging far beyond his actual age. The tough detective Zhao Lie is at a loss what to do, the forensic doctor Su Qinghe is puzzled, but the street clerk Chen Shuo puts it bluntly: "Someone is precisely depleting his kidney water and cutting off his five elements!"
A sudden death in a secret room on campus, a stolen heart in the morgue, a fifteen-year-old corpse mystery... Behind the series of unsolved cases, the shadow of the "Five Elements" shrouded the whole city. Chen Shuo uses the five elements to cut off clues, Zhao Lie uses criminal investigation to find the real murderer, and the two heroes join forces to tear apart the metaphysical murderous situation!
Who is using the Five Elements layout and treating human lives as pawns? Can they defeat this showdown between justice and evil?