An ordinary man glimpses the threads of cause and effect, only to discover that someone else has long since written his life into a trap.
On the night the subway lost power, Xu Heng saw lines connecting people.
The next day, a woman he'd seen on the platform the previous night fell to her death. A black line had once been attached to her.
The news called it an accident. The doctor said he was simply exhausted.
But retired detective Zhou asked him, “Who did that line point to?”
Some deaths don't happen suddenly.
And some truths aren't hidden away. They were written wrong from the very beginning.
When old cases, files, testimony, and surveillance footage began contradicting one another, Xu Heng finally realized: what he saw wasn't the answer. It was a trap someone else had left behind.
They had been concealed in the lines all along.
This book is not a pure fast-paced novel, but a suspenseful story with a more realistic texture. In the early stage, I will spend some space writing about the relationship between people, cities, units, materials and old cases. If you feel that the previous pace is too slow, you can read a few chapters later. Many details are not scattered and will be gradually recovered later, and the case will become tighter and tighter. Thank you to every reader who is willing to follow the story.