One office building, two lives. Shen Zhiwei defends the rights of lower-class workers in the cramped legal aid center on the fifth floor, while Gu Xingzhou is on the top floor strategizing for a billion-dollar merger and acquisition case. A case of arrears of wages for a cleaning lady brought two tracks that had never intersected together - Shen Zhiwei's defendant happened to be Gu Xingzhou's due diligence client.
During the investigation, Shen Zhiwei discovered that this was far more than just a labor dispute: there were more than a hundred "ghost employees" behind the twelve cleaning staff. Social security fraud and clinical trial data trading were woven into the same gray industry chain. The amount of fraudulent insurance exceeded tens of millions, and overseas data transactions involved millions of dollars. From Gu Xingzhou's initial "persuasion" to secretly handing out key clues, the two formed a fragile alliance between professional ethics and judicial justice.
Threats came one after another, including being followed, having his office raided, being bullied online, and witnesses being "sent abroad." The procuratorate filed the case, the provincial department made a surprise inspection, and the in-depth report was ready to go—a three-pronged attack, with each step surprising. When Gu Xingzhou stood on the witness stand and said, "If the law stipulates that lawyers must remain silent when a crime is discovered, then the law itself needs to be examined." When Shen Zhiwei read out the names of twelve cleaning staff and one hundred and seventeen false subjects in the court, those things hidden in the dark were finally seen by the light.
This is a story about "twilight": a single point of light is very weak, but when connected together, it is enough to tear apart the night.
