The day his older sister tearfully admitted her mistake on a livestream, Zhou Chen was crouched in a garbage dump east of the city, eating cold leftovers. No one knew that this “heartwarming family reconciliation” that had taken the internet by storm was actually a PR trap set by the Zhou family to save Zhou Yan’s life. The ones who had cast him aside like trash back then were his own flesh and blood; the brother now kneeling and begging for his forgiveness had long since been consumed by greed. When reporter Fang Yuhe pointed her camera at the old car key in his hand, and retired driver Chen Tieshan tremblingly handed over the surveillance footage, Zhou Chen finally understood: he wasn’t the discarded son. He was the living seal on the Zhou family’s crimes.
