11:40 p.m., Jiangbei City Funeral Home.
Lu Shiyuan comes to identify the body of her husband, Gu Shenting. When the white sheet is lifted, a perfect lipstick mark is visible on the dead man's neck. The shade is TF80, exactly the same as the one on her lips.
Her phone rings. The caller ID shows three words: Gu Shenting.
“Wife, did you find the lipstick mark?”
The corpse isn't him. He faked his death, yet left her lip print on the neck of her “dead husband.”
Lu Shiyuan is Jiangbei City's youngest psychological counselor, while Gu Shenting is the head of the Major Crimes Unit in the criminal investigation brigade. They have been married for five years, and she thought he was the person who understood her best in the world. But when he called her as a “dead man,” she realized she had married a man full of secrets.
On the day of the funeral, an unidentified woman's body appears in a hidden compartment of the coffin. She was Gu Shenting's blind date a year ago, vanished without a trace for an entire year, and now lies in his coffin after his “death.”
Lu Shiyuan begins investigating, only to discover that all the clues her husband left behind point to her anonymously serialized mystery novel, The Seventh Death Confession. The seven murders described in the novel are being reenacted one by one in real life.
Is he the murderer, or is he protecting her in his own way?
When the seventh body is found, the truth comes to light: at the age of seven, Gu Shenting witnessed the brutal murder of an entire family. Since then, the real killer has manipulated him for more than twenty years under the guise of “psychological treatment.” He planned his fake death to bring this hunt, spanning two generations, to an end with his own hands before a brain condition could completely consume his memories.
And Lu Shiyuan was outside his plan from the very beginning.
“You think I’m in the middle of”
