At the beginning of the spring of 2010, Lin Qi, an entrepreneur in a cultural media company, suffered from a breakdown in his company's capital chain and many of his credit cards became overdue. Overnight, he went from a promising entrepreneurial young man to a criminal suspect of "malicious overdraft", and was arrested by the bank and the police in a "targeted killing" style "fishing". Faced with the sudden imprisonment and the cold and sometimes rough judicial procedures, Lynch's spirit almost collapsed. However, in the condensed society of the detention center, he met all kinds of inmates and witnessed more tragedies of silent confession due to ignorance of the law.
Inspired by the perseverance and spirit of his girlfriend Gao Shan (a tough media person), Lynch decided to rise up and resist. He began the difficult road of self-rescue using his only legal knowledge and the dossier information collected in prison. From his passive defense when he was first interrogated to his step-by-step maneuver in the detention center, the focus of the struggle has shifted from "am I guilty" to "whether the procedures of the case-handling agency are legal" and "whether the chain of evidence is complete."
The climax of the story is that after the first-instance verdict, Lynch firmly chose to appeal. In the final trial of the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court, he grasped the "fundamental flaws" in the bank's collection procedures and the case-handling agency's error in determining the "purpose of illegal possession" and achieved a shocking reversal. In the end, he grew up from a prisoner by saving himself from adversity and adhering to his belief in the rule of law. He conveyed positive inspirational values and popularized legal content such as the boundaries between civil and criminal credit cards and judicial process rights.
