Yang Jiang, deputy captain of the Serious Crime Team of the Linjiang City Criminal Police Detachment, is 32 years old. He has solved countless cases and is recognized as a genius in the province's criminal investigation system. But recently, he started to notice something was wrong. His blood was found at the crime scene. Annotations that did not belong to his handwriting appeared on the notebook out of thin air. The reflection in the mirror would smile strangely at him. What made him most uneasy was that his memory began to have large blanks, and those blank times coincided with the time when several murders were committed. In the case of Zhou Haisheng's murder, he could not remember his whereabouts that night. Someone signed his name with his blood on the piece of cloth stuffed in the mouth of the unknown man's body in the western suburbs. Each victim's palm was engraved with a strange five-pointed star pattern. As the investigation deepens, Yang Jiang gradually approaches the truth, but also steps closer to the darkest secret deep in his heart...
