In the seventh year of the Republic, torrential rain cut off the mountain roads.
Seven people died overnight at Qizhong Manor.
When Lu Chenzhou, an inspector from the provincial bureau, arrived at the scene, everyone thought it was just a bizarre family massacre.
A locked room. A stopped clock. A note slipped under the door.
The evidence pointed, piece by piece, to an old case from ten years ago.
But as the investigation deepened, he began to realize:
Every corpse was connected to him.
Every clue pointed to the same person.
That person wore a bowler hat and had a broken scar over his right eyebrow.
It was him. For the first 38 chapters, you're following a detective solving a case.
In the last three, you discover that the person you've been following all along is the killer.