Shen Du is a forensic doctor and the loneliest person in the city.
He could hear the last heartbeat of the deceased - the moment he touched the body, the murderer's footsteps, the sound of broken bones, and the silent cry of the deceased would all be replayed in his ears.
This ability helped him solve 37 unsolved cases, but it also cost him: every time he solved a case, he would "inherit" part of the memory of the deceased. He couldn't tell more and more whether the fear, pain, and unwillingness belonged to the deceased or his own.
A "collector" appears in Nancheng. What he pursues is not killing people, but the expression of the deceased at the last second. What's even weirder is that all the victims have one thing in common - they are all people "designed" to get close to Shen Du.
"Don't you find it strange?" The collector smiled at him through the glass of the interrogation room, "Why are all the cases related to you?"
Shen Du didn't answer. He looked down at the button in his hand that he had picked up from his mother's body when he was eight years old, but he still didn't touch it.
Because once he touches it, he will hear the whole truth about his mother's death.
And that truth might destroy what's left of his sanity.
