Criminal investigation captain Qin Yi took over a seemingly ordinary case: the villa of Li Meihua, a single woman, was invaded. When she checked with the property owner, she discovered an unknown male body in the basement.
The identity of the deceased is a mystery, and clues at the scene are fragmented. Qin Yi launched an investigation step by step, only to find that the body seemed to have been deliberately "stored" here instead of being dumped temporarily. As the investigation deepens, a secret that has been sealed for many years is slowly revealed - the former owner of this villa, a woman who disappeared many years ago, and an accidental death that has been hastily classified. Three seemingly unrelated timelines begin to intertwine strangely.
The case is getting bigger and bigger, involving a chain of crimes hidden under the peaceful town. Qin Yi discovered that behind every old scar that was covered up, there was the same group of people, and they were now decent people in the city.
The resistance is unprecedented, even from within. Some people advised him to "enough is enough". The chain of evidence was repeatedly destroyed, and witnesses changed their stories one after another. From a criminal investigation captain who only knew how to follow procedures, Qin Yi was forced to learn to identify directions in the dark, find loopholes in silence, and make choices between compromise and perseverance.
An unknown corpse tore open not just an old case, but a whole carefully buried truth. And what he wants to do is to climb up against time and retrieve those forgotten names one by one.
