Shadows in the Daylight

The criminal he hunts is himself. The shadow he cannot escape is his only protector.

Lin Mo, the police department’s star profiler, cracks one extraordinary case after another with his precise criminal psychology analyses. But he doesn’t know that every night, another self awakens: Shen Ye, a “dark vigilante” who fights violence with violence, hunting down criminals who escaped justice through Lin Mo.

The massacre that destroyed his family when he was a child split ten-year-old Lin Mo’s mind, creating Shen Ye as his protector. Sixteen years later, Shen Ye lures Lin Mo into investigating a series of “perfect accidents,” because he understands that only when Lin Mo accepts his shadow can the two personalities merge and give their shared body the strength to face its true enemy.

When Lin Mo recognizes the suspect’s face on surveillance footage, a face identical to his own, he is forced into a fateful battle of “me hunting myself.” Forensic doctor Su Qing uses her expertise and gentleness to open his closed heart, while investigative reporter Tang Yun falls in love amid the clash of blades with the dark man who burns himself away. Two heroines, two choices, and one person’s sacrifice brings final reconciliation.

Years later, on a foreign street, rain falls like a curtain. All the sins and punishments, the pain and love, settle into peace as they meet again and exchange a smile.