Shen Zhiyuan is known around the municipal compound as a “gentlemanly scoundrel.” He has an easy job in the archives department and a handsome face as warm and refined as jade, but inside he is utterly cold and heartless. He has a secret: he can see “them,” the personified obsessions entangled in the shadows of power. It isn't a gift, but a hallucination caused by severe schizophrenia, and his unique golden finger for manipulating people as he pleases. When an online article accusing the relatives of a senior official of trading money for power causes an uproar, everyone assumes that the mastermind, “Deep Sea,” is a righteous crusader who despises evil. Only Shen Zhiyuan smiles at the precise revelations on his screen, because he recognizes the incisive writing. It belongs to his “anti-fan,” an alter personality born from him and existing only in his mind. Now this alter personality seems no longer satisfied with passing judgment online. Step by step, it is dragging him, and the entire center of power, into a real abyss. Standing on the precipice between sanity and madness, Shen Zhiyuan can no longer tell who the prey is.
