The Ministry of Public Security has an office without a door number, called Special Case Investigation Team 9.
There is only one person in the ninth group. His name is Shen Yan.
The eighth finger in the red wedding dress. The corpse coffin in the secret room with paper figures carrying the coffin. Forty-nine sticks of incense are burned in front of Chuma Xiantang. The person whose face was sealed with beeswax in the vat.
Every case is wrapped in the shell of folk customs - the marriage of the river god, the burning of the king's boat, the sky burial platform, and the masks of Nuo opera.
But peel back that shell and it's the same thing underneath: an organization that has been operating in the shadows for thirty years. And his mother was the first missing person on this line.
Some cases are only just beginning after they have been investigated.
