For fifteen years, forensic doctor Shen Du stitched up corpses, until he discovered that some marks on the bodies hadn’t been left by people. They belonged to something called “Rules.” And the “Rules” never give without taking. As he encounters one case involving the “Rules” after another, he goes from a passive examiner to someone actively seeking the truth behind them. In the end, he discovers that he, too, is caught in a “Rule.”